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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What's interesting, we don't know, we didn't find this out until later on, is that he basically, he freely talks to the British high command about how they can beat Washington and the Continental Army. But eventually he is freed in a prisoner exchange and given another chance and doesn't do very well at the Battle of Monmouth.
it is it is steve and i mean this is a situation people have to understand that this is our first civil war not everybody was on board with the american revolution i mean the the classic breakdown is you have a third that were patriots you know a third that were loyalists that were loyal to the crown and a third that were undecided and then what you see in my book uh washington's immortals where i really cover the eight-year
span of the American Revolution where none of it can be decided. Because what's the important thing, right? It's as you say, it's to keep the army intact. A insurgency that has the support of the population is almost impossible to defeat. That's something that we've learned, you know, throughout the 20th century in particular.
This is a situation where they knew they didn't necessarily have to win, they just needed to survive. And Washington was brilliant at this. He was brilliant at prudence and not attacking when he knew that he didn't have the odds. He also was brilliant in his alliance buildings with foreign powers, but also within, you know, this very much divided United States in 1776.
This is the situation, Steve, where the army is falling apart. You know, one of my favorite quotes is about one of the men sees his brother and doesn't even recognize him because he's in complete tatters, shoeless. His face is filled with sores.
The army is disintegrating because of the enlistments are expiring and Washington has to strike and he strikes at the vulnerable Hessian outpost under Johann Rall at Trenton. The problem is there's a river in the way again.
And Washington asks Glover if it's even possible to get across the Delaware when it's raging, a raging torrent. Like, don't worry, my boys can handle it. And they organize one of the greatest amphibious operations in history.
War Room.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.
Steve, World War I is where the United States becomes a superpower, a financial superpower, an economic superpower.
And it's the American Expeditionary Force in 1918 that smashes the Hindenburg Line and breaks open the Western Front.
I mean, it's an amazing, it's a slaughter, you know, the front was a slaughterhouse.
of machine guns and gas and poison gas.
Then as the final months of the war drag down, it's a pandemic that just kills tens of millions of people.
It is seared in the minds of those that participated in the Great War.
Arms to State comes about on November 11th at the 11th hour, the 11th minute.
where the guns fall silent, and they fall silent on the Western Front.
And they're searching for a way to sort of commemorate those who have served in the Great War with Armistice Day.
We shifted in June 1, 1954, to Veterans Day to honor.
It's 1954.
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