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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Let me just sort of back up slightly.
You know, this is a situation where you have the largest naval armada in history up until this point, as well as almost over half the British Army, as well as this massive Hessian force of of over 10,000 men.
descend upon North America to crush the rebellion, which is only uh, you know, less than a year old at this more than a year old at this point, and they're gonna crush it militarily.
And they descend upon, as you mentioned, Gravesend Bay.
They land at Long Island or and they begin to mass, where Washington divides his army.
Half of it is at is in Brooklyn or Long Island.
The other half is in Manhattan.
He doesn't know where the British are gonna land.
And it's here that they position um about a thousand 3,000 men.
um on this rocky spur called the heights of guanis and today's this is today's greenwood cemetery and uh greenwood cemetery is kind of the who's who that's buried in new york city uh boss tweet etc and the battle opens up with a an action near greenwood
And it it's it begins on the night of August twenty sixth at the Red Lion Inn.
And it's this is the western gate of Greenwood Cemetery where
There's a mark that's the hoof of the devil.
Pat Patrick
That's one of the enduring mysteries in American history, Steve.
We do not know.
There were two hundred and fifty six continental soldiers.
That were missing after this charge.
Мені молд.
Many of them were captured.
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