Patrick K. O'Donnell
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672 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 29 Aug
Patrick K. O'Donnell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They bought time.
Precious daylight.
Because it would be very difficult for the British to mount a night attack even with their experienced army.
But that stand will save the United States and the Army.
But they are not safe.
because the army is surrounded by twenty thousand men in its front.
The Royal Navy occupies New York Harbor.
The East River separates Brooklyn from Manhattan and safety.
And it's it's here that there's a massive nor'easter that pelts both armies as Lord Holland digs in and conducts siege lines.
But Washington has to decide what to do, fight or retreat.
At the Fort Chimneys, which is a mansion in Brooklyn, he gathers his men for a council of war and they advise that he withdraw.
But that is one of the most impossible and difficult operations in military
in in military operations is to escape from an enemy that's in front
When they also control the river and the waterways.
And it falls upon the shoulders of John Glover and the Marblehead Mariners to gather all of the boats on August twenty ninth.
To conduct
A miracle.
And within with only hours to spare they bring the boats together.
They're told initially that they are going to attack the British lines because they know that secrecy is a must.
A single person that blows the operation
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