Patrick K. O'Donnell
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right after the war.
Barnes and Noble, they uh usually have it featured.
Um
that and revolutionary snipers or Amazon.com or independent bookstores, everybody pretty much has 'em.
And we'll have some uh number of books at you know, each of the signings on the twenty sixth at the Society of Cincinnati and then also
In Brooklyn.
at the Michael Raleigh American Legion.
Post.
It was an honor and a privilege.
Thank you, Dom.
This is the most, you know, the American Revolution is probably the most significant event other than the birth of Christ and life of Christ. It's an immensely important event. And as you state accurately, the war itself is only part of it. And the actual revolution begins much earlier with the Stamp Act and other things.
there's a series of things and grievances that that cause the colonists to to break from great britain and i mean there's a lot that i get into with the indispensables for instance which is one group of americans that are up in marblehead and their great grievance is they're fishermen but they're being taxed to death
and most importantly from their perspective their boats are being seized or actually their board their boats are being boarded and men are being taken aboard as and kidnapped and basically put into the the royal navy against their will this is called impressment and this is a major grievance that's that takes place the um a major event
Within this, there are a number of atrocities that really magnify the American Revolution. The impressment issue is one, there's the Boston Massacre as another, and then things accelerate. In 1773 and 1774, there is a true revolution of ideas.
that are at the time groundbreaking steve i mean we're talking about the idea of freedom and liberty which they base you know they look at john locke's theories but they also bring in ancient greece and other things and an american version of freedom and liberty kind of emerges at this point uh one thing that is extremely significant that was not brought out
was the importance of gunpowder. And what I mean by that is disarmament. And you can be, you know, you can have all the revolutionary ideas that you want, but if you were defenseless against a major empire like the crown, every revolution, every uprising which occurred prior to 1775 was crushed by the crown. And they saw an opportunity
So it was a good, maybe it was 2009, it was a good six years before that book was... I should say it was 2016 that it came out, not 2015. So it was a good six or seven years that I spent with Washington's Immortals. It was a book that began with a tour that I took with my...
battalion commander the willy buell who was in volusia with me in 3-1 and he was uh counseled foreign relations he was the colonel that was there was there one of their the the fellows and he said to me you want to go to the met i said no let's do a combat tour of the battle of brooklyn and you know it was one of the coolest things is to be able to to walk the ground
of a critical battle with somebody you had been in battle with, especially a man that really kind of understood history and tactics strategy. We walked through Greenwood Cemetery where the rolling hills are, you know, the site of some of New York's finest and most infamous characters. But it was also a great battle that took place. The Battle of Brooklyn begins at Greenwood Cemetery in the Heights. And this is where Washington troops
um initially are pinned down by the british as a massive flanking maneuver is going behind them led by cornwallis and lord hall and clinton and uh you know to their utter dismay and horror they realize that they're being flanked and they pull back to a stone house or near it many of the men and they make a last stand uh an american thermopoly takes place here
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