Ken Burns
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But please promise me you'll fire twice.
And the second line of militia, my more inexperienced, please just fire twice and then run behind the third line, which are these scraggly kids, teenagers, felons, ne'er-do-wells, second and third sons without the chance of an inheritance, recent immigrants from Ireland and Germany.
And they stop the British.
So Tarleton goes, oh, they're doing what all the militias do.
They're retreating, they're retreating, they're retreating.
And then the third line comes up and they go after them and the Americans actually attack, which is very rare.
thing to drive into the British line.
Tartland gets away, but a huge part of Cornwallis' army has been diminished, and they're uttering this war cry that they have adapted from the Cherokee, from Native American tribes, which is a yell that will reverberate in southern battlefields for decades.
And like, I can takeβI meanβ
There's Lexington and Concord, and then maybe somebody says Bunker Hill, which is really Breed's Hill, Bunker Hill too, and then maybe Trenton, he takes over, he surprises them on Christmas night, and then maybe some people know that Saratoga is the surrender of an entire British army that gives the French the confidence to come in on our side and give us the equivalent of $30 billion plus Navy and soldiers.
But there are dozens of battles that we'll tell you about.
Like Germantown is a wonderful thing.
What's the largest battle in the entire β the largest battle?