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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He's out, you know, out in the line somewhere.
And fortunately the operation pushes forward.
And at this point the the tides do change.
And they're able to move across, but it's not a situation where they take
You know, they let's say they have fifty or so boats.
The number is not exact i is never never been known, but it's a there were a number of small boats.
But they would have to cross a dozen times.
to to to bring across 9,000 men.
That's how treacherous it was.
It was it was not only the tides, but they also had to worry about the Royal Navy coming up the river and blowing them to smithereens.
And it and another miracle occurs that night where the wind does not fail favor the Royal Navy, where their sails could bring the ships up the river into the fortif up towards the British for the American fortifications at Brooklyn Heights as well as near the crossing point.
So things start to move back and forth on the river.
um but it's just constantly touch and go but it's also this race against time steve where dawn is coming and once dawn comes you have this massive juggernaut of over 20 000
of the crown's finest troops and Hessian soldiers that are about to pounce on your position, which you're evacuating.
So you only have a small number of guys still in the trenches and you're crossing the river.
And oh, by the way, the entire British fleet can sail up.
That river.
And it's at this point that
Uh, you know, a true miracle occurs.
Um, a dense fog which had never been seen before at that time.
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