Eric Metaxas

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2,037 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 12 Sep

Eric Metaxas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 19 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 10.

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This is where it went down 250 years ago. voice-verified

Today, what are we talking about? voice-verified

We are talking about the Battle of Brooklyn, also called the Battle of Long Island. voice-verified

In case anybody doesn't know, Brooklyn and Queens are you know uh voice-verified

Part of Long Island, this island. voice-verified

And the British plan was pretty simple. voice-verified

We're gonna crush you, we're gonna smash you. voice-verified

We have thirty two voice-verified

Thousand troops. voice-verified

Let's think about this for a second. voice-verified

You have George Washington, I think his headquarters was number one Broadway. voice-verified

You know, there's some kind of a mansion on the water down by, you know, below Wall Street, looking out at the harbor. voice-verified

And they see, Steve, it's tough for us to imagine what a British warship, how big it was. voice-verified

These were monstrous ships carrying. voice-verified

hundreds of people, hundreds of canon. voice-verified

And you look at that and I mean shock and awe. voice-verified

Th that's there's no other way to put it. voice-verified

It would just chill you to think that they could have voice-verified

Thirty two thousand troops. voice-verified

Washington had what nine thousand or something like that? voice-verified

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