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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In the East River, Steve is a raging torrent because there was a nor'easter.
That day and the day before.
So the it is storming out.
And it's the tides are just absolutely insane.
And they somehow have to have to to to gather all these small boats as they get down towards the Brooklyn Bridge.
And they start to set off with the wounded first and the horses and the cannon.
And as soon as they go across the river, Steve.
The tide in the river is bringing them directly to the British fleet in New York Harbor.
They're not able to cross.
Nothing is working.
And and the Continental Army is
The men that are sailing these boats are the most seasoned and experienced mariners in the entire continental army.
Because they spend
most of their year fishing the Grand Banks up in Nova Scotia, which are absolutely treacherous.
Every year scores of men die just because of massive waves capsize their ships and they have to fish in these in the Grand Banks and the water waters are absolutely treacherous.
So they developed this teamwork.
Of of you know of this this amazing situation of
the grand banks and now they're faced with this and nothing is working that night.
The boats go across.
Or they they try to penetrate the river, they don't get far, they pull back, they try to find Washington that night to call off the operation, and he can't be found.
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