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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That's what they say.
Uh is a local lore, but British scouts are probing that night on the 26th, and they find the watermelons, they try to seize them.
But what they do, they end up is they run up, they end up running into the revolutionary snipers of Edward Hands, Pennsylvanians, who are armed with the widow makers of the Pevent Pennsylvania long rifles.
And these men repel the scouts.
It's the first shots of this battle.
And then the entire thing uh unfolds and what you have is a massive flanking maneuver.
As you mentioned earlier, the the British uh nearly 10,000 strong are going through the Jamaica Pass, which is largely unguarded by American forces.
They s they move through after seizing several men on horseback that are that are there to to watch the pass.
And then they move around the heights of Guanis where the Greenwood Cemetery is located, and they come in from behind.
And they are surrounding thousands of Americans in this massive planking maneuver.
And these men first.
repel the British at Greenwood Cemetery and then they are fighting for their lives.
uh you know to to break out
But it's here at the near the Stone House, near the Michael Raleigh American Legion Post in Park Slope.
That they make the American thermopylae.
This is several companies of Marylanders, the Maryland 400, it's called.
That are under uh
A uh Lord Sterling, who's a an American uh general, and they are directed to make the charge against the Stone House and they allow a large portion of the army to escape, but they also prevent these wings from uniting.
And then there is as a result, they're uh many many of them are three hundred sparks are never seen again.
Yep.
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