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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But that day we met at Greenwood Cemetery and we walked down the alleys
of Brooklyn went up to Greenwood Cemetery where they first did battle, then came down here, found the rusted old sign.
And I looked up and saw two hundred and fifty-six Continental soldiers barreled heroes, and I said to myself,
Where are they buried and what is their story?
Nobody had written a book about it at that time and I wanted to know more.
I wanted to know what the story was behind that sign and who those men were.
And that story begins
On a wintry day in seventeen seventy four, where men of honor, family, and fortune came together to form the Baltimore independent cadets or the first company first Baltimore independent company.
They wanted to defend their fellow colonies at forty eight hours notice.
They put their fortunes on the line.
The best money that
the equipment that they can buy and train, they train for months.
But their first combat would be here.
In Brooklyn.
You know, August twenty sixth, last night.
A hundred and fifty years two hundred and fifty years ago the battle
Time.
British scouts were probing the American lines and they came across the watermelon patch behind the Red Line Inn.
And the first shots were fired by Edward Ham's rifleman.
They repelled the scouts.
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