1 00:02:03,420 --> 00:02:08,462 In the winter of 1776, a mere six months after the colonies declared 2 00:02:08,474 --> 00:02:13,900 independence from Britain and the crown, the American army was decimated. 3 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:20,618 Overrun by the British in Manhattan, slaughtered by the hundreds by German mercenary troops known as 4 00:02:20,630 --> 00:02:26,720 Hessians, the Continentals hardly seemed a threat to the might of the British Empire in the Americas. 5 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:35,225 As winter approached, the Continentals were cold, tired and sick, and still the British chased themselves 6 00:02:35,237 --> 00:02:43,040 toward the natural boundary between the two rich colonies of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the Delaware River. 7 00:03:55,130 --> 00:03:58,970 Get that damn gun rolling! Put your shoulders to it! 8 00:04:00,890 --> 00:04:02,330 Send a hand! 9 00:04:03,950 --> 00:04:06,910 Damn you! Hold on! Come on! Come on! On the wheel. 10 00:04:08,230 --> 00:04:11,870 Ready? One, two, three! 11 00:04:16,380 --> 00:04:24,900 General, sir, you shouldn't be here. The British could be anywhere. 12 00:04:25,260 --> 00:04:28,560 Be damned with saving one canon. Spike it and move on. 13 00:04:29,020 --> 00:04:33,160 Yes, sir. Move on, gentlemen. Lay a slight to her. 14 00:04:33,780 --> 00:04:34,960 I went with the horses. 15 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:42,340 We've half a thousand sick men, sir. 16 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:45,760 Do we quarter them here? 17 00:05:46,940 --> 00:05:48,200 No. We cross the river. 18 00:05:51,220 --> 00:05:54,400 When? We can't lie in the cold. They'll die. 19 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:57,500 We'll all die if we don't put the river between us and the British. 20 00:05:58,100 --> 00:05:58,160 Lover! 21 00:05:58,161 --> 00:06:10,080 Lover, I'd like to cross the river. 22 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,380 With what, sir? Do we swim the damn river? 23 00:06:19,180 --> 00:06:21,260 Lover, I'd like to cross the river. 24 00:06:23,340 --> 00:06:26,559 How, sir? You tell me. How do we put two thousand 25 00:06:26,571 --> 00:06:29,340 men across the river? Where are the boats? 26 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,760 Upriver, a few miles, is a foundry in Smelter. 27 00:06:33,940 --> 00:06:36,780 They run the ore down to Philadelphia in boats, big boats. 28 00:06:36,940 --> 00:06:39,880 Take your men right up there and get those boats. 29 00:06:40,820 --> 00:06:42,180 And pay for them with what? 30 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:44,680 Damn it! How come? Open your eyes! 31 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,240 We are pinned here! And then we cross the river while it's firing. 32 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,160 So get those boats. Take them if you have to. 33 00:06:56,090 --> 00:06:57,730 Do what you can for the sick of movement. 34 00:07:04,630 --> 00:07:05,630 Yes, sir. 35 00:07:15,180 --> 00:07:16,460 You are Robert Mckenzie? 36 00:07:24,810 --> 00:07:26,970 You are the proprietor of the Ironworks, so don't. 37 00:07:30,570 --> 00:07:31,570 Who are you? 38 00:07:32,610 --> 00:07:35,050 By necessity an authorization of the Army of the Continental. 39 00:07:35,570 --> 00:07:37,837 We have commandeered your fleet of boats for the 40 00:07:37,849 --> 00:07:40,270 temporary use of the American Revolutionary effort. 41 00:07:41,050 --> 00:07:42,050 What? 42 00:07:42,450 --> 00:07:47,470 My God, sir, is this your revolution? Is this your Liberty and equality? 43 00:07:48,590 --> 00:07:52,610 To destroy a man's business? To Rob him of his property? 44 00:07:53,550 --> 00:07:55,070 I follow my orders, sir. 45 00:07:55,270 --> 00:07:56,270 Whose orders? 46 00:07:56,730 --> 00:07:57,730 General Washington. 47 00:07:58,390 --> 00:08:01,170 Thank God damn him for the bandit that he is. 48 00:08:01,730 --> 00:08:05,210 How am I going to make a living? Who's going to pay me? 49 00:08:05,290 --> 00:08:06,670 The Continental Congress. 50 00:08:07,690 --> 00:08:12,710 And my eternal thanks for your generous assistance in this matter. 51 00:08:14,950 --> 00:08:15,950 Right, sir! 52 00:08:16,330 --> 00:08:19,250 You are your God damn Continental Congress! 53 00:08:19,690 --> 00:08:20,690 I'll see you hanged! 54 00:08:21,370 --> 00:08:23,310 Every one of you! You, too! 55 00:08:23,670 --> 00:08:26,270 You will all suffer the consequences! 56 00:08:26,950 --> 00:08:28,810 You don't stand a chance! 57 00:08:29,510 --> 00:08:30,630 Give up now! 58 00:08:34,850 --> 00:08:36,770 All in! Look like me! 59 00:08:39,150 --> 00:08:40,330 Come over here, sir! 60 00:08:41,090 --> 00:08:42,090 Keep coming! 61 00:08:59,140 --> 00:09:00,380 Quickly! Move me here! 62 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:02,340 All in! Move me, Mr. 63 00:09:03,180 --> 00:09:04,180 Hamilton! All right, gentlemen! 64 00:11:50,220 --> 00:11:51,860 I will speak bluntly. 65 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,380 Six months ago, when our Army held New York City, 66 00:11:56,381 --> 00:11:59,420 we had 20,000 men and over 300 pieces of artillery. 67 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,680 How many men here are fit for duty? Any kind of duty? 68 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:04,200 Less than 2,000, sir. 69 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:06,560 Henry, how many pieces of artillery? Eighteen, sir. 70 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:08,520 71 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,040 Less than 2,000 men, 18 guns, 72 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:16,360 and we presume to fight against the most powerful nation on the face of the earth. 73 00:12:17,740 --> 00:12:20,140 In doing so, we have been smashed and smashed again. 74 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,520 We have been flushed and chased and punished. 75 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:29,400 Now I must write to Congress and tell them of our condition. 76 00:12:32,620 --> 00:12:34,220 Well, gentlemen, what shall I tell them? 77 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:42,960 That we are on the west bank of the river, General. 78 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:46,160 And that the British are on the east. 79 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,280 And that there is no boat worth calling a boat on this river. 80 00:12:49,740 --> 00:12:50,780 That is not in your hands. 81 00:12:51,020 --> 00:12:54,660 Yes, we have a reprieve. A few days or weeks until the river freezes over. 82 00:12:55,660 --> 00:12:58,700 And when the British walk across the ice with 20,000 men, 83 00:12:59,500 --> 00:13:01,760 then we retreat again. 84 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,120 Then the way is open and they take Philadelphia. 85 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:08,160 What's left? We are left. 86 00:13:08,340 --> 00:13:11,620 So we have almost no food, no medicine, no blankets. 87 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,060 I'm more of a physician than a general, 88 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:17,660 and I tell you we have jaundice and dysentery. 89 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,380 So you tell me, in what condition are we left? 90 00:13:24,660 --> 00:13:26,000 You are right, General Mercer. 91 00:13:26,900 --> 00:13:28,980 An army without supplies cannot endure. 92 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:33,520 I propose we endure. 93 00:13:34,940 --> 00:13:36,800 Therefore, we will find what we need. 94 00:13:42,430 --> 00:13:44,570 Where is our alternative, gentlemen? 95 00:13:45,090 --> 00:13:49,210 Do we lay down our arms? Do we throw ourselves at the mercy of our enemy? 96 00:13:50,330 --> 00:13:51,330 No. 97 00:13:52,950 --> 00:13:56,370 So long as I command a corporal's guard, I will make some endeavor. 98 00:13:57,770 --> 00:13:58,990 Now, gather round. 99 00:14:01,790 --> 00:14:03,110 We are here. 100 00:14:03,710 --> 00:14:05,910 And here, our retreat from New York. 101 00:14:06,550 --> 00:14:10,670 Here I divided my forces. I gave General Lee 2,000 men and proposed this route. 102 00:14:11,050 --> 00:14:14,050 I gave General Gates 1,200 men, and this was to be his route. 103 00:14:14,450 --> 00:14:17,390 If one of the armies were trapped, perhaps the other two could survive. 104 00:14:17,391 --> 00:14:19,570 They were to meet us here. 105 00:14:21,650 --> 00:14:22,750 Where are they? 106 00:14:24,930 --> 00:14:27,950 How can two armies simply disappear? 107 00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:35,120 Sterling, you were Surveyor General of New Jersey. 108 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:36,740 You know every road in the state. 109 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:38,580 Go and find them. Go today. 110 00:14:39,020 --> 00:14:40,020 Yes, sir. 111 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:41,800 You go about your duties, gentlemen. 112 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:44,320 Who was it? Outside. 113 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:45,600 114 00:14:55,780 --> 00:14:59,020 Suppose General Lee is out there in the Jersey hinterland, 115 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:03,220 just sitting and waiting for you and your army to die. 116 00:15:03,660 --> 00:15:04,660 I will not believe that. 117 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:08,460 He hates you. Just as Gates envies and hates you. 118 00:15:08,620 --> 00:15:09,420 That's enough, William. 119 00:15:09,540 --> 00:15:12,340 I won't go unless I speak my mind. 120 00:15:13,660 --> 00:15:15,400 Lee has always wanted your command. 121 00:15:16,100 --> 00:15:19,080 What better way to see you lose it than to just stay where he is? 122 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:21,660 I only ask you to find him. 123 00:15:21,661 --> 00:15:24,660 And if he tells me to go to hell and be damned... 124 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:27,500 Sullivan is his second in command. 125 00:15:27,860 --> 00:15:29,720 If there is trouble with Lee, you and General Sullivan 126 00:15:29,721 --> 00:15:33,180 will place him under arrest and bring him and his troops to me. 127 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:38,080 You are General Washington, sir? I am. 128 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:39,840 129 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,580 My name is Thomas Barkley. 130 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,260 Mine is the Stone House over the hill. 131 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:51,860 I have come to you to offer it as your headquarters and shelter from the cold. 132 00:15:52,620 --> 00:15:55,300 You cannot conduct your business like animals in the field. 133 00:15:55,900 --> 00:15:57,620 I thank you, sir, with all my heart. 134 00:15:57,920 --> 00:15:59,500 You may have your baggage sent up, sir. 135 00:16:00,340 --> 00:16:03,340 May I ask you and your staff to join us for dinner tonight? 136 00:16:03,540 --> 00:16:04,540 We would be honored. 137 00:16:05,420 --> 00:16:06,420 May I show you the way? 138 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,480 Find General Lee and his army, William. 139 00:16:16,270 --> 00:16:17,370 Otherwise we are finished. 140 00:16:18,390 --> 00:16:19,390 What's left? 141 00:16:31,580 --> 00:16:35,480 Furthermore, the men still wear their summer clothing, 142 00:16:35,900 --> 00:16:37,300 and many are barefoot. 143 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,740 As wearisome as these endless pleas become, 144 00:16:40,940 --> 00:16:44,400 I beseech the Congress to understand our condition. 145 00:16:45,540 --> 00:16:47,960 Today is the 20th of December. 146 00:16:48,180 --> 00:16:52,260 In 11 days, the enlistment papers for half the army will be expired, 147 00:16:52,780 --> 00:16:53,900 and the lads will head home. 148 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:58,760 Without funds, I cannot pay the men for reenlistment, 149 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,980 nor can I provide food nor clothing. 150 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,380 Without these funds, I do not know how we can continue, 151 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:12,360 and I plead with you to help us. 152 00:17:22,410 --> 00:17:23,750 Go, Alex. 153 00:17:24,690 --> 00:17:26,530 I am very tired. I think I will rest. 154 00:17:28,090 --> 00:17:29,090 Yes, sir. 155 00:18:10,990 --> 00:18:11,990 Yes. 156 00:18:12,310 --> 00:18:13,310 It's Hugh, sir. 157 00:18:15,290 --> 00:18:16,290 The door is open. 158 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:29,160 Well, Hugh? 159 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:33,321 A writer from New York has arrived carrying intelligence. 160 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,140 Why in God's name did they call it intelligence? 161 00:18:37,780 --> 00:18:38,780 What's with this batch? 162 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:40,600 You don't want to read it? 163 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:42,940 It's from Van Hagen. 164 00:18:44,940 --> 00:18:45,620 Van Hagen? 165 00:18:45,621 --> 00:18:49,940 No one hates the British like a Dutch merchant. 166 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:52,000 What's he got to say this time? 167 00:18:52,780 --> 00:18:55,541 General Howe's banging a pretty little wench the name of Mrs. Loring. 168 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:57,720 He has her in his bed every night, glassy-eyed, 169 00:18:58,260 --> 00:19:00,120 and formicating like a 15-year-old. 170 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:04,760 That's very stimulating, Hugh, but where's the connection? 171 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,120 Van Hagen credits Mrs. Loring with our continued existence. 172 00:19:08,780 --> 00:19:10,216 He says if it wasn't for Mrs. 173 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,240 Loring, General Howe would be down here at the river with 20,000 men. 174 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:15,560 How so convinced we're finished? 175 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:17,960 He's allowed Cornwallis to return to England. 176 00:19:18,580 --> 00:19:22,541 Not a damned fool. Cornwallis is the only commander he has who isn't an idiot. 177 00:19:24,060 --> 00:19:25,660 They're waiting for the river to freeze. 178 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:32,600 Meanwhile, he's sent Colonel Raul and 1,200 Hessians to occupy Trenton and to Watches 179 00:19:33,060 --> 00:19:34,500 should we attempt a march to Boston. 180 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:36,820 1,200 Hessians? 181 00:19:37,540 --> 00:19:39,760 By God, Hugh, the man holds us in contempt. 182 00:19:40,060 --> 00:19:41,420 Well, with reason, sir. With reason. 183 00:19:41,421 --> 00:19:42,500 What reason? 184 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:45,100 Less than 1,000 men fit for duty. 185 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:47,100 No food, no clothing. 186 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:49,800 These Hessians are the best soldiers in the world. 187 00:19:50,540 --> 00:19:54,180 The boys we lead are as frightened of them as a Salem pastor at the sight of a witch. 188 00:19:56,100 --> 00:19:57,100 Hessians. 189 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,740 Van Hagen writes that Howe expects us to plead for terms within the next fortnight. 190 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:03,540 He intends to be generous. 191 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:05,760 Generous? 192 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:12,640 Well, I will see General Howe in hell before I come to him with a plea of surrender. 193 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:14,900 Come along, Hugh. 194 00:20:16,940 --> 00:20:17,940 Where to, sir? 195 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,360 Let's have a look at Trenton. I've never seen the town. 196 00:20:22,780 --> 00:20:23,780 Not? 197 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:25,280 Yes, Hugh, right now. 198 00:20:55,420 --> 00:20:56,820 Not much of a river, is it? 199 00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:59,000 Less than the Potomac. 200 00:21:00,820 --> 00:21:04,261 If they had any guts at all, they'd build rafts and fight their way across. 201 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:06,900 They don't have to. They can wait. 202 00:21:13,180 --> 00:21:14,560 1,200 Hessians. 203 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:16,980 Among them, the Neepars and regiment. 204 00:21:17,420 --> 00:21:19,740 Same murderous bastards that cut us to pieces in Brooklyn, 205 00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:22,200 leaving 500 of you Virginians dead. 206 00:21:22,380 --> 00:21:23,380 Listen. 207 00:21:26,580 --> 00:21:27,580 What is it you hear? 208 00:21:28,900 --> 00:21:31,080 This was a fool's play. The two of us riding down here are known. 209 00:21:31,081 --> 00:21:32,801 Let's get out of here. Be quiet. 210 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:37,560 That's ours, Hugh. 211 00:21:38,180 --> 00:21:40,520 Some drunken fife is off the devil's sake. 212 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:57,360 General Sullivan, sir. 213 00:21:58,040 --> 00:21:59,040 General Sterling. 214 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:00,960 General Washington. 215 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,400 Where is General Lee, sir? 216 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:05,740 Taken captive by the British. 217 00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:09,040 How did that come about? 218 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,600 We were in camp near Basking Ridge. 219 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,120 He went alone to a tavern two miles away, and there the British took him, 220 00:22:17,660 --> 00:22:18,940 or else he joined them. 221 00:22:20,460 --> 00:22:21,460 I see. 222 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,420 What is the condition of your men? 223 00:22:26,740 --> 00:22:28,560 872 able to walk and bear arms. 224 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:29,760 The rest are in the carts. 225 00:22:30,460 --> 00:22:32,100 And what have you heard of General Gates? 226 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,520 He will be with you by nightfall. 227 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Very well. 228 00:22:40,660 --> 00:22:42,660 It is... Five o'clock, General. 229 00:22:43,540 --> 00:22:47,701 I suggest you march your men to our camp if they have the strength. 230 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,240 If they have the strength, sir. 231 00:22:50,140 --> 00:22:52,180 Ride back with them, Hugh. I will meet you shortly. 232 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:53,800 Will you not ride with us, sir? 233 00:22:54,540 --> 00:22:55,540 No. 234 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:26,900 That's it. That's the whole of it. 235 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:29,560 And you're on my opinion? 236 00:23:31,940 --> 00:23:32,980 Forthrightly and honestly. 237 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:34,880 I think you've lost your mind. 238 00:23:36,660 --> 00:23:38,780 Well, that's plainly said, Colonel Glover, 239 00:23:38,900 --> 00:23:40,236 but it's quite the side, the point. 240 00:23:40,260 --> 00:23:42,380 The question is, can you do it? No, I cannot. 241 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:44,420 But I will. 242 00:23:45,820 --> 00:23:46,820 243 00:23:47,460 --> 00:23:48,960 What the devil does that mean? 244 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:51,940 It means that the whole thing is a damned lunatic affair. 245 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,720 But if you're determined to ride into hell, I'll go along. 246 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:56,400 247 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:58,680 And my fisherman will go, too. 248 00:24:00,460 --> 00:24:01,460 When all's said and done, 249 00:24:02,300 --> 00:24:04,340 there's no alternative, is there? I think not. 250 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:07,040 I will, then. 251 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:09,560 That's that. 252 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:12,720 That. 253 00:24:21,180 --> 00:24:22,180 Thank you. 254 00:24:25,390 --> 00:24:26,390 255 00:24:27,410 --> 00:24:29,090 Tell me that when we've done it. 256 00:24:29,250 --> 00:24:30,250 Sir. 257 00:24:38,970 --> 00:24:41,570 I will have no more talk of defeat. 258 00:24:42,470 --> 00:24:44,290 Our side will assuredly triumph. 259 00:24:45,450 --> 00:24:48,110 And then General Knox here will write a book about it. 260 00:24:48,930 --> 00:24:50,390 I sell books, madam. 261 00:24:50,870 --> 00:24:52,110 Writing one is quite beyond me. 262 00:24:52,770 --> 00:24:54,590 And perhaps General Glover will. 263 00:24:54,870 --> 00:24:55,870 Colonel Glover, madam. 264 00:24:56,250 --> 00:24:57,650 This army is sufficient, gentlemen. 265 00:24:58,870 --> 00:25:00,030 And I'm not a rider, madam. 266 00:25:01,150 --> 00:25:02,150 I'm a fisherman. 267 00:25:02,350 --> 00:25:04,490 You're going to be assured, madam, he'll not let you forget it. 268 00:25:07,030 --> 00:25:10,650 I'm intrigued by your profession, and I notice your uniform is different. 269 00:25:10,950 --> 00:25:11,990 There's no uniform, madam. 270 00:25:12,770 --> 00:25:13,770 These are my own clothes, 271 00:25:14,110 --> 00:25:17,750 just as this is my own hair, which God gave me. 272 00:25:18,890 --> 00:25:21,850 I will lay aside my contempt for free prison and my disgust 273 00:25:21,851 --> 00:25:23,690 for the high church, just long enough to join these gentlemen 274 00:25:23,691 --> 00:25:27,170 in an endeavor which is my own, as well as theirs. 275 00:25:28,190 --> 00:25:30,830 But I will not clothe myself in silks and 276 00:25:30,831 --> 00:25:32,770 laces and play the silly ass in a padded wig. 277 00:25:33,990 --> 00:25:36,611 I'm a marblehead fisherman of the Congregational Persuasion Man. 278 00:25:37,430 --> 00:25:40,070 So I was born, so I will die. 279 00:25:40,810 --> 00:25:42,670 Madam, let me not apologize, 280 00:25:42,890 --> 00:25:45,230 but rather explain the blunt speech of Colonel Glover. 281 00:25:45,990 --> 00:25:49,070 He was never one to hide his light under a bushel. 282 00:25:51,830 --> 00:25:54,410 He has no desire to be ungracious. 283 00:25:54,670 --> 00:25:55,670 No, indeed, madam. 284 00:25:56,550 --> 00:25:57,550 I'm in your debt. 285 00:25:58,030 --> 00:26:01,370 By God, that I have lived to hear John Glover apologize? 286 00:26:02,070 --> 00:26:03,070 There was no apology. 287 00:26:03,450 --> 00:26:05,490 I merely thanked the lady for a fine meal and wine, 288 00:26:05,650 --> 00:26:07,530 which is a damn sign more than I hear from you. 289 00:26:07,910 --> 00:26:10,290 General Gates arrived with his army half an hour ago. 290 00:26:10,990 --> 00:26:13,370 He's in the front room, and in no good mood. 291 00:26:13,910 --> 00:26:15,270 Bring him here, Alex. 292 00:26:16,270 --> 00:26:18,070 Be honest and call yourself for what you are. 293 00:26:18,071 --> 00:26:19,970 A Presbyterian, Mr. Knox. 294 00:26:20,890 --> 00:26:21,890 Mr. Barclay, 295 00:26:22,190 --> 00:26:24,490 it appears we do nothing but impose on you. 296 00:26:25,510 --> 00:26:26,070 How so? 297 00:26:26,530 --> 00:26:28,050 General Gates has just arrived. 298 00:26:29,570 --> 00:26:30,570 Ah! 299 00:26:31,070 --> 00:26:32,530 And may I introduce him? 300 00:26:32,770 --> 00:26:34,350 My colleague, General Gates. 301 00:26:35,510 --> 00:26:36,510 Ah! Welcome, sir. 302 00:26:37,210 --> 00:26:38,490 Have you eaten? 303 00:26:40,350 --> 00:26:42,991 May we have the use of the room and table for the rest of this evening? 304 00:26:43,110 --> 00:26:44,370 Of course, General. 305 00:26:50,830 --> 00:26:53,150 Ladies? Sit down, General. Have a glass of wine. 306 00:26:55,050 --> 00:26:56,070 Be seated, gentlemen. 307 00:27:00,090 --> 00:27:02,610 It is late, but perhaps not too late. 308 00:27:11,610 --> 00:27:15,490 I would have had this meeting before, but I wanted to have General Gates here. 309 00:27:16,430 --> 00:27:18,530 I received this dispatch yesterday. 310 00:27:19,170 --> 00:27:21,410 from the Continental Congress 311 00:27:22,370 --> 00:27:25,290 to His Excellency General Washington, 312 00:27:25,550 --> 00:27:26,550 Commander-in-Chief. 313 00:27:27,370 --> 00:27:31,210 The Congress, having come to the realization that 314 00:27:31,290 --> 00:27:32,710 Philadelphia cannot be defended, has removed to Baltimore. 315 00:27:36,130 --> 00:27:40,050 We leave you in full command with the power to make 316 00:27:40,051 --> 00:27:43,390 all decisions concerning the future of our struggle. 317 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:50,260 So it is, gentlemen. 318 00:27:54,530 --> 00:27:56,810 We became a nation on the 4th of July, six months ago. 319 00:27:56,811 --> 00:27:57,811 320 00:27:59,990 --> 00:28:01,910 We held our three largest cities, 321 00:28:02,590 --> 00:28:03,990 Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. 322 00:28:05,430 --> 00:28:07,250 Since then, we have lost New York. 323 00:28:08,690 --> 00:28:11,770 Congress has fled from Philadelphia because we cannot defend it. 324 00:28:13,010 --> 00:28:15,390 We have lost every battle, 325 00:28:16,370 --> 00:28:19,190 and out of our great army only a handful remain. 326 00:28:20,570 --> 00:28:22,570 The British have written us off. 327 00:28:24,670 --> 00:28:28,450 At this very moment, they are contriving the terms of our surrender, 328 00:28:28,710 --> 00:28:33,670 waiting for the Delaware River to freeze over so that 329 00:28:33,671 --> 00:28:35,330 they may walk across it and present us with those terms. 330 00:28:35,930 --> 00:28:38,530 You have stated the situation, sir, quite clearly. 331 00:28:39,330 --> 00:28:40,330 Very well. 332 00:28:42,750 --> 00:28:44,570 Reserve your opinions, gentlemen. 333 00:28:45,010 --> 00:28:46,010 Hear me out. 334 00:28:47,790 --> 00:28:51,810 Across the river, ten miles downstream, is the village of Trenton. 335 00:28:52,530 --> 00:28:55,990 It is held by 1,200 Hessians with raw in command. 336 00:28:56,510 --> 00:28:58,710 They have food, warm clothing, blankets, 337 00:28:59,090 --> 00:29:01,270 tents, cannons, muskets, ammunition, 338 00:29:01,530 --> 00:29:04,270 in short, everything we need. 339 00:29:05,630 --> 00:29:07,030 In four days, it will be Christmas. 340 00:29:08,530 --> 00:29:11,930 There will be a great deal of feasting and a great 341 00:29:11,931 --> 00:29:12,970 deal of drinking by the Hessians that day and night. 342 00:29:14,450 --> 00:29:18,310 I propose that on the Eve of December 25th, 343 00:29:19,450 --> 00:29:21,910 we cross the river, march on Trenton, 344 00:29:22,390 --> 00:29:24,570 and attack the Hessians before dawn. 345 00:29:26,570 --> 00:29:28,990 And if God is with us, we'll take the whole lot of them. 346 00:29:43,990 --> 00:29:46,850 Well, sir, I waited for you to broach this. 347 00:29:47,490 --> 00:29:48,490 What do you think? 348 00:29:49,250 --> 00:29:50,530 You would not wish to know, sir. 349 00:29:52,350 --> 00:29:53,450 Then you have objections. 350 00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:53,950 Many. 351 00:29:54,590 --> 00:29:55,810 Would you specify them? Gladly. 352 00:29:56,490 --> 00:29:57,490 353 00:29:58,330 --> 00:30:01,810 Firstly, my dear sir, in order to attack, one needs an army. 354 00:30:02,510 --> 00:30:04,310 You do not have an army. 355 00:30:05,410 --> 00:30:07,870 Secondly, in order to attack, one needs soldiers. 356 00:30:08,470 --> 00:30:10,470 Your men are not soldiers. 357 00:30:11,490 --> 00:30:13,750 Thirdly, your troops always go in one direction. 358 00:30:14,270 --> 00:30:16,630 To attack requires the other direction. 359 00:30:16,750 --> 00:30:17,750 Shall I continue? By all means. 360 00:30:18,390 --> 00:30:19,390 361 00:30:20,210 --> 00:30:22,210 In 11 days' time, the enlistments run out. 362 00:30:22,810 --> 00:30:25,491 Your men will not attack a fly before then, and why should they? 363 00:30:25,570 --> 00:30:27,670 They need only sit tight and go home. 364 00:30:28,810 --> 00:30:33,130 Next, there is no way to cross the river and keep such a plan from the Hessians. 365 00:30:33,650 --> 00:30:35,010 They have spies everywhere. 366 00:30:35,390 --> 00:30:36,670 The crossing will take hours, 367 00:30:36,850 --> 00:30:38,630 and long before you reach the other shore, 368 00:30:38,970 --> 00:30:41,110 the Hessians will have their artillery on your boats. 369 00:30:42,330 --> 00:30:45,250 Those big Durham boats of yours make damn good targets. 370 00:30:46,130 --> 00:30:48,070 Even a Yankee gunner couldn't miss them. 371 00:30:50,790 --> 00:30:55,330 And finally, you will not defeat Hessians. 372 00:30:56,350 --> 00:30:58,630 They are European soldiers. 373 00:30:59,810 --> 00:31:02,050 The most disciplined, the most rigorously trained, 374 00:31:02,330 --> 00:31:03,670 the best soldiers on Earth, 375 00:31:03,810 --> 00:31:05,050 and you bloody well know that. 376 00:31:05,450 --> 00:31:08,470 Their superiority will be their undoing. 377 00:31:09,430 --> 00:31:10,430 Oh, my dear sir, please. 378 00:31:11,130 --> 00:31:14,110 Their training has not prepared them for an attack of this nature. 379 00:31:14,390 --> 00:31:15,830 They will be roused from their beds, 380 00:31:16,010 --> 00:31:17,650 and we will not give them time to achieve 381 00:31:17,651 --> 00:31:19,750 the formations with which they are comfortable. 382 00:31:20,630 --> 00:31:22,170 I fear for your sanity, General. 383 00:31:22,390 --> 00:31:24,370 I fear that you are no longer fit for command. 384 00:31:25,290 --> 00:31:26,510 How dare you! 385 00:31:26,511 --> 00:31:27,550 No, sir, how dare you! 386 00:31:28,590 --> 00:31:33,690 I am sick to death of your looking down that long nose of yours, 387 00:31:34,290 --> 00:31:37,350 and equally sick of the pretense of military 388 00:31:37,351 --> 00:31:40,150 competence that you and your colonial cronies display. 389 00:31:40,990 --> 00:31:43,190 You are no soldiers. 390 00:31:46,390 --> 00:31:48,870 And you, sir, are a damned poor leader. 391 00:31:49,730 --> 00:31:52,370 You can't face defeat, and so you seek annihilation. 392 00:31:54,370 --> 00:31:55,510 Have you finished? Surrender. 393 00:31:56,270 --> 00:31:59,210 This revolution is over. 394 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,480 So we surrender. 395 00:32:04,860 --> 00:32:09,100 We weigh the pros and cons and reason prevails. 396 00:32:10,980 --> 00:32:15,620 But you see, sir, I am an unreasonable man as well as a poor soldier. 397 00:32:16,220 --> 00:32:16,700 But you are right. 398 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,460 My men are not soldiers. 399 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:19,720 They are lads. 400 00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:22,380 Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen. 401 00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:24,060 They run away. 402 00:32:24,061 --> 00:32:27,120 They fear the Hessians as they fear death. 403 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:28,300 All this is true. 404 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,860 Yet they have put their trust in me. 405 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:35,440 They could have deserted. 406 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:36,600 Thousands have. 407 00:32:36,660 --> 00:32:38,420 But these lads have not. 408 00:32:39,980 --> 00:32:41,760 They remain with me. 409 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,300 And I, not you, General Gates, 410 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:45,880 I command this army, 411 00:32:46,060 --> 00:32:50,760 and if I, a bumbling Virginia farmer, should decide to lead them into hell, 412 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,360 they will follow me into hell. 413 00:32:56,260 --> 00:32:58,180 Now you hear me, and you hear me well. 414 00:32:59,980 --> 00:33:02,080 You will ride out of my camp. 415 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,540 You are not to discuss what has occurred here tonight, 416 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,780 not with your staff, not with your men. 417 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:09,740 Put your pistol on him, Alex, and go with him. 418 00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:12,480 See him onto his horse and out of this camp, 419 00:33:12,540 --> 00:33:16,040 and if he tries to take his men with him, shoot him. 420 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,140 You would not dare. 421 00:33:21,380 --> 00:33:22,840 Try me, General Gates. 422 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:25,220 Only try me. 423 00:33:33,180 --> 00:33:35,020 You're with him, Alex, but come back quickly. 424 00:33:35,220 --> 00:33:36,320 We have much to do. 425 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,680 This is not a matter for amusement, gentlemen. 426 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:47,200 And damn well he's not. 427 00:33:47,660 --> 00:33:48,660 Gates is right. 428 00:33:49,300 --> 00:33:52,141 If the Hessians get wind of this and catch those darn boats in the river, 429 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:53,920 we'll all swim to hell. 430 00:33:53,921 --> 00:33:56,980 Damn well said. Now listen to me, all of you. 431 00:33:57,700 --> 00:34:00,620 We have but a few days to prepare for something we have never done before. 432 00:34:01,180 --> 00:34:03,280 Baking your pardon, sir, but we have fought before? 433 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,741 We have defended ourselves against their attacks and been defeated. 434 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,020 On Christmas Day, for the first time, we attack them. 435 00:34:25,980 --> 00:34:26,980 Damn it, no! 436 00:34:27,240 --> 00:34:29,420 I will not ferry your guns until my men are across. 437 00:34:30,020 --> 00:34:31,120 You're stubborn as a mule. 438 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,620 If there's an attack, we'll need the guns. 439 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,641 Damn, I saw that I should fight this crazy war with shopkeepers. 440 00:34:36,940 --> 00:34:38,300 Get in out of the rain this night. 441 00:34:40,340 --> 00:34:41,340 Now listen to me. 442 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,480 To get guns and horses across, 443 00:34:43,860 --> 00:34:45,820 we put a platform across two boats. 444 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:50,800 We drive six-inch spikes through the planks into the gunnels of the boats. 445 00:34:51,460 --> 00:34:53,940 It takes 20 of my fishermen to handle each platform. 446 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:55,640 Your point. 447 00:34:56,100 --> 00:34:58,980 That will take five boats out of the transport of the men. 448 00:34:59,520 --> 00:34:59,800 Then what? 449 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:04,641 Do we spend precious hours ripping off the platforms in the night while the men wait? 450 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,180 Use your goddamn head, Mr. Knox. 451 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,700 Glover, you're a sour, foul-mouthed barbarian. 452 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:14,080 That I am. 453 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:16,760 Now there's a civilized man, 454 00:35:17,580 --> 00:35:19,060 cold enough to freeze your balls off, 455 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:20,320 and the land's shaven. 456 00:35:26,020 --> 00:35:27,760 We will cross here, 457 00:35:28,100 --> 00:35:29,740 the short march away at McConkey's Ferry. 458 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,861 Then we'll divide into two columns and enter Trenton from two directions in darkness. 459 00:35:34,460 --> 00:35:37,240 You have two days left to select your companies and prepare them. 460 00:35:37,380 --> 00:35:39,040 Tell your men as little as possible. 461 00:35:39,660 --> 00:35:41,020 When we assemble for the crossing, 462 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,000 you can give them the information. 463 00:35:43,420 --> 00:35:44,420 Not before then. 464 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:47,320 Any questions? 465 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:49,360 General Green, sir. 466 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:51,320 My men need rifles. 467 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:52,640 How many? 468 00:35:52,860 --> 00:35:53,860 Maybe a hundred, sir. 469 00:35:54,060 --> 00:35:55,120 You can have ten rifles. 470 00:35:55,300 --> 00:35:56,676 Give the rest muskets and bayonets. 471 00:35:56,700 --> 00:35:58,180 Baking your pardon, General Green. 472 00:35:59,060 --> 00:36:00,420 But my men are riflemen. 473 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:01,720 Sharpshooters. 474 00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:04,220 Don't take kindly to muskets and bayonets. 475 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,000 They won't take kindly to being skewered by a Hessian either. 476 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:08,636 Have you looked outside, Cadman? 477 00:36:08,660 --> 00:36:10,980 Better muskets and bayonets than a rifle that won't spark. 478 00:36:11,220 --> 00:36:12,580 We are going in, all of us, 479 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:14,620 with cold steel at night. 480 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:21,440 Yes, Captain Heinemann. 481 00:36:21,500 --> 00:36:22,500 Yeah. 482 00:36:22,660 --> 00:36:24,340 The mine boys are tensely vain and German, 483 00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:26,600 and they're good boys and brave boys. 484 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:31,320 But so damn the Hessian's invidia toffee. 485 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:35,460 Devil, be the devil. 486 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,760 And if I tell them last moment that we fight, 487 00:36:40,420 --> 00:36:45,140 the Hessian, they become too nervous. 488 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:54,100 If I tell them today, we can talk about it, and it's better this way for us. 489 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:55,320 I stand, Captain. 490 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:56,880 Better this way. 491 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,140 What do you think? 492 00:37:01,141 --> 00:37:03,360 We didn't tell them. Safe enough. 493 00:37:04,420 --> 00:37:06,300 No one could understand a word they say anyway. 494 00:37:23,890 --> 00:37:24,890 What are you smoking? Dry cowdough. 495 00:37:26,370 --> 00:37:27,370 496 00:37:31,350 --> 00:37:32,470 What's it taste like? Shit. 497 00:37:33,930 --> 00:37:34,930 498 00:37:36,310 --> 00:37:37,310 What's yours? Corn silk. 499 00:37:39,250 --> 00:37:40,250 500 00:37:41,030 --> 00:37:42,030 Remember tobacco? Here you go. 501 00:37:44,550 --> 00:37:45,550 502 00:37:48,700 --> 00:37:49,880 Making a hell of a mess there. 503 00:37:49,881 --> 00:37:51,120 What's all that for? 504 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,220 I'm thinking the wax will keep the weather out. 505 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:58,440 I feel like facing some red coat with soggy powder. 506 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:03,240 That never worked. 507 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:29,400 MacConkey? 508 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,460 Taylor, this is an horror. 509 00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:36,360 But please, we'll step into the top room. 510 00:38:37,140 --> 00:38:38,260 Better if we talk here. 511 00:38:38,340 --> 00:38:40,180 What I have to say is only for your ears. 512 00:38:40,181 --> 00:38:41,840 I shall wish. 513 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,000 But please, sit yourself. 514 00:38:44,900 --> 00:38:45,900 Oh, it's a shame, 515 00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:48,420 but I always imagined one day your excellency 516 00:38:48,421 --> 00:38:51,340 would come in here and be asking me for a bottle of Madeira. 517 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,060 Conkey, there's not a bottle of Madeira between here and Philadelphia. 518 00:39:12,670 --> 00:39:14,050 God be praised. 519 00:39:14,790 --> 00:39:17,130 It's a year since I've tasted such a Madeira. 520 00:39:17,250 --> 00:39:18,250 The bottle's yours. 521 00:39:18,510 --> 00:39:19,030 Drink with me. 522 00:39:19,230 --> 00:39:19,730 Oh, no, no. 523 00:39:19,990 --> 00:39:20,770 I wouldn't have a drop. 524 00:39:21,010 --> 00:39:21,690 Touch me lips. 525 00:39:21,691 --> 00:39:23,250 It's yours alone. 526 00:39:24,450 --> 00:39:26,810 Now, what would you have to talk with me about? 527 00:39:29,530 --> 00:39:32,150 I hear you have no love for our enemy. 528 00:39:32,830 --> 00:39:32,850 Love? 529 00:39:33,230 --> 00:39:35,130 Jesus Christ, I see the bastards in hell. 530 00:39:35,390 --> 00:39:36,710 And you can keep your mouth shut. 531 00:39:37,470 --> 00:39:38,470 Like a trap. 532 00:39:38,930 --> 00:39:39,930 Very well. 533 00:39:40,910 --> 00:39:44,350 I want this house tomorrow, all day. 534 00:39:45,390 --> 00:39:46,770 I want it for my headquarters. 535 00:39:48,650 --> 00:39:52,070 I'm going to cross the river tomorrow with 2,000 men. 536 00:39:52,830 --> 00:39:53,830 And attack. 537 00:39:56,180 --> 00:39:57,940 You mean the bastards are Trenton? 538 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:00,140 Yes, the bastards are Trenton. 539 00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:05,540 General, may I take you up on your kind offer? 540 00:40:05,940 --> 00:40:06,940 No. 541 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:09,760 When you came in, General, 542 00:40:10,900 --> 00:40:12,500 did you not notice the ice on the river? 543 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,000 Nothing to bother us. 544 00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:15,940 Not now, sir. 545 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,420 But the Delaware's a strange and curious river. 546 00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:21,060 The frost comes, 547 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,620 and it pours forth into the northern valleys. 548 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,260 She'll probably be kicks of ice in a day or two, 549 00:40:28,620 --> 00:40:30,220 and it'll get worse for every day after. 550 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:32,840 We cross tomorrow. 551 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:34,400 Oh, for Christ's sake, General. 552 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:36,440 Forgive the impertinence. 553 00:40:37,460 --> 00:40:39,160 But why not wait for spring? 554 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:41,620 This is a cause I love. 555 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:43,920 It's an army I love. 556 00:40:43,921 --> 00:40:45,940 I love it too, more than I can say. 557 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:48,440 Then why not wait? 558 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:50,760 Because if I do not cross tomorrow, 559 00:40:52,140 --> 00:40:53,400 there will be no army. 560 00:41:17,030 --> 00:41:18,030 Yes. 561 00:41:24,390 --> 00:41:25,570 It's Christmas Day, sir. 562 00:41:27,030 --> 00:41:28,030 Merry Christmas. 563 00:41:31,660 --> 00:41:32,660 Thank you. 564 00:41:35,770 --> 00:41:37,350 You always share with cold water? 565 00:41:38,190 --> 00:41:41,330 Well, I damn well better be used to cold water before the day is out. 566 00:41:41,331 --> 00:41:44,370 Now, you can bank on that, by God, 567 00:41:45,270 --> 00:41:46,690 if you go through with it. 568 00:41:47,110 --> 00:41:48,230 Oh, we're crossing, Glover. 569 00:41:49,690 --> 00:41:50,690 Today. 570 00:41:51,550 --> 00:41:52,550 At nightfall. 571 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:00,140 May I ask you a question, sir? 572 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,240 If I said no, would it dissuade you? 573 00:42:03,460 --> 00:42:04,460 In this case, sir? 574 00:42:04,900 --> 00:42:05,900 No, it wouldn't. 575 00:42:06,460 --> 00:42:08,480 Well, then, by all means, Glover, what is it? 576 00:42:09,780 --> 00:42:11,660 Would you attack the Hessians in open daylight? 577 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,080 That is a damn full question. 578 00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:19,200 I have no intention of attacking in daylight. 579 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:21,440 But would you? 580 00:42:21,820 --> 00:42:23,460 Glover, speak plainly, if you will. 581 00:42:23,900 --> 00:42:24,900 Very well. 582 00:42:25,660 --> 00:42:27,960 Let us say we push off the boats at half past five. 583 00:42:28,860 --> 00:42:29,860 Full darkness. 584 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,400 That will give us six and a half hours for crossing. 585 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:34,780 You plan to march to Trenton at midnight. 586 00:42:35,540 --> 00:42:38,140 A night march in this weather with men who will be wet, 587 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:39,640 freezing, and already exhausted. 588 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,916 If you can whip them, and the guns are long at two 589 00:42:42,940 --> 00:42:44,340 miles an hour, you can get to Trenton before dawn. 590 00:42:44,740 --> 00:42:46,260 We will do three miles an hour. 591 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,160 Maybe I'm not saying you will, I'm not saying you won't. 592 00:42:49,900 --> 00:42:51,100 But there's ice in the river. 593 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:53,740 And as God is my witness, there's no man on earth 594 00:42:53,741 --> 00:42:55,640 who can carry that army across in six hours. 595 00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:57,760 Or ten hours. 596 00:42:58,380 --> 00:43:00,180 So you will be coming to Trenton in daylight. 597 00:43:01,220 --> 00:43:03,080 Providing we can cross that damn river at all. 598 00:43:07,550 --> 00:43:08,710 That last you said? 599 00:43:09,810 --> 00:43:10,810 Son. 600 00:43:10,970 --> 00:43:12,430 Providing we can cross at all. 601 00:43:15,900 --> 00:43:16,900 Glover. 602 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:18,400 Yes, sir? 603 00:43:19,540 --> 00:43:21,900 You have been a pain in my ass 604 00:43:22,340 --> 00:43:24,240 and a Thorn in my side. 605 00:43:26,180 --> 00:43:27,380 Since the day we met. 606 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:32,280 You'd be a general today if you hadn't burned the ass of every man on my stand. 607 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:33,376 I would have been a general. 608 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,800 It's more private soldiers, we need no more generals. 609 00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:37,720 True enough. 610 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:45,880 You are a hard man to like. 611 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:53,380 But you saved my army at Brooklyn Heights and you saved it at Throg's Neck 612 00:43:53,381 --> 00:43:56,100 and you saved it when they drove us across the North River. 613 00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,080 You have more guts than any man I have ever known. 614 00:44:02,900 --> 00:44:04,620 And you're a damned good soldier. 615 00:44:06,020 --> 00:44:07,560 So I'm giving you an order. 616 00:44:08,700 --> 00:44:11,960 And unless you want to take your men back to Marblehead, Massachusetts, 617 00:44:12,620 --> 00:44:16,080 wherever that cold and God-forsaken Yankee place is, you will carry it out. 618 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:21,640 You will take my army across the river and you will do it tonight. 619 00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:25,080 Very well, General. 620 00:44:26,180 --> 00:44:28,240 I'll carry your army across the river. 621 00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:31,160 God help me, I don't know how. 622 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:33,400 But I'll do it. 623 00:44:36,060 --> 00:44:40,360 And I will not march on Trenton until the last boat is across. 624 00:44:42,820 --> 00:44:44,920 I want your fishermen with me. 625 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:48,400 I'll be with you. 626 00:47:08,590 --> 00:47:11,490 There, gentlemen, you have all the details of the plan. 627 00:47:11,650 --> 00:47:14,490 Let me for the last time repeat the main elements. 628 00:47:15,110 --> 00:47:18,050 It is now 5'10". 629 00:47:18,051 --> 00:47:21,350 We will begin loading the boats in precisely 20 minutes. 630 00:47:21,970 --> 00:47:25,690 When the crossing is completed, we will march south along the River Road. 631 00:47:25,970 --> 00:47:29,110 Four miles south, the army will divide into two sections. 632 00:47:29,850 --> 00:47:33,450 General Green and I, commanding the first section, will take the Pennington Road. 633 00:47:33,890 --> 00:47:37,330 General Sullivan, commanding the second section, will take the River Road. 634 00:47:38,830 --> 00:47:40,450 We will enter Trenton, God willing, 635 00:47:40,670 --> 00:47:43,070 no later than 6 o'clock in the morning. 636 00:47:43,910 --> 00:47:45,250 It will still be dark. 637 00:47:49,260 --> 00:47:50,820 You wanted a few words, Colonel Glover? Yes, sir. 638 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:52,000 639 00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,441 Gentlemen, I want discipline and speed in loading and unloading. 640 00:47:57,760 --> 00:47:59,140 No interference with my osmond. 641 00:47:59,980 --> 00:48:01,600 Each boat will have one of my men in command. 642 00:48:01,601 --> 00:48:03,680 His word is law, 643 00:48:04,300 --> 00:48:08,460 whether he gives his orders to private soldier or to General Washington himself. 644 00:48:09,340 --> 00:48:10,340 He will be at the tiller. 645 00:48:11,500 --> 00:48:14,280 As for the crossing, I am in command. 646 00:48:15,660 --> 00:48:17,100 Will you put your word on that, sir? 647 00:48:18,460 --> 00:48:19,500 You heard Colonel Glover. 648 00:48:20,580 --> 00:48:22,220 Loading and unloading and on the river, 649 00:48:22,380 --> 00:48:23,680 he is the Supreme Commander. 650 00:48:24,900 --> 00:48:27,400 No one is to countermand his orders. 651 00:48:30,220 --> 00:48:31,580 Any questions? Very well. 652 00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:44,120 653 00:48:46,700 --> 00:48:49,060 I bid you all Godspeed and good luck, 654 00:48:50,220 --> 00:48:53,360 and a Merry Christmas to all of you. 655 00:48:54,020 --> 00:48:55,020 Merry Christmas. 656 00:49:05,330 --> 00:49:06,330 One more man here. 657 00:49:07,910 --> 00:49:08,910 Three here. 658 00:49:09,230 --> 00:49:10,230 Come on. 659 00:49:12,870 --> 00:49:13,870 Lock easy. 660 00:49:22,290 --> 00:49:23,290 Cast off. 661 00:49:28,060 --> 00:49:28,460 General. 662 00:49:28,461 --> 00:49:29,461 Thank you. 663 00:49:30,020 --> 00:49:31,840 Cross now. Seal off the landing area. 664 00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:33,880 Put a guard on anyone who wanders in. 665 00:49:34,180 --> 00:49:35,460 The men land wide in the circle. 666 00:49:36,020 --> 00:49:37,020 Don't, sir. 667 00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:39,000 What time is it, Alex? Six ten, sir. 668 00:49:41,580 --> 00:49:42,740 669 00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:44,720 I'm not moving fast enough. 670 00:49:45,460 --> 00:49:46,660 Bring me Glover. I'm inside. 671 00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:49,480 Freeze there. Come on. 672 00:49:49,700 --> 00:49:51,300 Come on. Sit down. 673 00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:53,620 Come on, man. Gentlemen. 674 00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:57,500 Your troops are out there in the cold. 675 00:49:57,501 --> 00:49:59,740 Your place is with them, not here by the fire. 676 00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:07,736 Look, I have no time for disabilities. 677 00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:08,916 Can you make the men move fast? No, sir. 678 00:50:08,940 --> 00:50:09,560 I cannot. 679 00:50:09,940 --> 00:50:10,740 The dock's too small. 680 00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:12,356 We've only spaced for two boats at a time, 681 00:50:12,380 --> 00:50:15,921 and I told you this morning that six hours is not... Very well. Let's get back to it. 682 00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:25,400 Get back where you were. 683 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:28,780 Move loudly over there. 684 00:50:29,860 --> 00:50:36,880 Move lively. There's some men down here. 685 00:50:37,060 --> 00:50:38,780 Right away, sir. I need these boats loaded. 686 00:50:44,900 --> 00:50:46,600 Time, Alex. What is the time? 687 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:49,080 Almost ten, sir. 688 00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:57,320 General? 689 00:50:58,460 --> 00:51:00,040 I'll cross, sir, with your permission. 690 00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:03,320 We have a thousand men on the other side. 691 00:51:03,780 --> 00:51:05,460 Very well, Nathaniel. I suppose you could. 692 00:51:05,980 --> 00:51:07,040 Will you remain here, sir? 693 00:51:07,260 --> 00:51:09,700 No. I cannot continue to watch this agonizing process 694 00:51:09,701 --> 00:51:12,220 and maintain my sanity. I'm going to cross over as well. 695 00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:14,540 I should like to cross also, sir. 696 00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,160 Why don't you wait for the guns? 697 00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,300 Because if I open my mouth again about the loading of the guns, 698 00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:21,920 Glover will go mad. 699 00:51:22,820 --> 00:51:23,820 He hates me. 700 00:51:24,260 --> 00:51:26,540 I tried to talk to him about this before, but... 701 00:51:27,220 --> 00:51:30,400 Well, he insulted me. 702 00:51:31,580 --> 00:51:32,580 How? 703 00:51:33,100 --> 00:51:37,360 He said that in an army that hasn't eaten in three months, 704 00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:41,900 it's damn near treason to be fat. 705 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:44,520 Did he now? Come on, Henry. 706 00:51:51,020 --> 00:51:53,460 It's no night for bickering. 707 00:51:54,380 --> 00:51:55,380 To the boats, gentlemen. 708 00:51:55,700 --> 00:51:56,700 Yes, sir. 709 00:51:59,540 --> 00:52:01,660 Go with General Green and General Knox. 710 00:52:01,820 --> 00:52:02,820 I'll be right along. 711 00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:06,080 I give you command on shore. 712 00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:08,780 I want you to wait till the last boat. 713 00:52:09,340 --> 00:52:10,780 Everyone crosses, do you understand? 714 00:52:11,940 --> 00:52:14,100 Regardless of the time, regardless of what happens, 715 00:52:14,660 --> 00:52:16,520 we cross and march on trend. 716 00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:19,080 No discussions, no arguments. 717 00:52:19,740 --> 00:52:20,940 We cross and attack. 718 00:52:22,300 --> 00:52:23,300 I understand. 719 00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:25,200 Good. 720 00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:27,520 I'll see you on the other side. 721 00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,820 It's yours now, Glover. Keep the movie. 722 00:52:48,700 --> 00:52:50,400 Don't worry, General. We'll all cross. 723 00:52:53,380 --> 00:52:55,120 Move that fat ass, Henry. 724 00:52:59,580 --> 00:53:00,580 What'd he say? 725 00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:01,880 Move your fat ass. 726 00:53:03,500 --> 00:53:05,800 Don't swing your balls or you'll swamp the boat. 727 00:53:46,290 --> 00:53:48,830 Pull easy, lads. Save your strength. 728 00:53:49,450 --> 00:53:50,810 You'll need it for the night, sir. 729 00:54:00,770 --> 00:54:02,390 My God, they're slow, sir. 730 00:54:03,550 --> 00:54:04,550 Can't we hurry them? 731 00:54:05,030 --> 00:54:07,730 We make one trip, Henry. They're at it all night. 732 00:54:08,450 --> 00:54:10,130 And then they march to Trenton with us. 733 00:54:10,890 --> 00:54:11,810 Easy, lads. Easy. 734 00:54:11,811 --> 00:54:13,590 Pull together. 735 00:54:14,350 --> 00:54:16,130 Hey, give them a count. 736 00:54:20,170 --> 00:54:22,930 Sally Brown, she's a bright Malacca. 737 00:54:23,670 --> 00:54:27,210 We roll and roll. 738 00:54:27,830 --> 00:54:31,350 She drinks brom and chews tobacco. 739 00:54:32,290 --> 00:54:36,090 Spend my money on Sally Brown. 740 00:55:02,830 --> 00:55:17,420 Close, sir. Close, sir. 741 00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:27,370 Thank you. 742 00:55:27,910 --> 00:55:29,710 Let us know since the snow's given over, sir. 743 00:55:30,130 --> 00:55:31,250 Most of the boys are asleep. 744 00:55:31,590 --> 00:55:32,590 Let them sleep. 745 00:55:32,970 --> 00:55:34,490 God knows they'll need their strength. 746 00:55:36,450 --> 00:55:37,450 Eleven, ten. 747 00:55:38,550 --> 00:55:39,550 Well, there it is. 748 00:55:40,090 --> 00:55:42,650 We won't have the army crossed over before three in the morning. 749 00:55:43,350 --> 00:55:45,350 That means we won't reach Trenton before daybreak. 750 00:55:46,250 --> 00:55:47,250 You must agree. 751 00:55:48,190 --> 00:55:48,850 I agree. 752 00:55:48,851 --> 00:55:49,851 What then? 753 00:55:50,650 --> 00:55:51,650 We attack in daylight. 754 00:55:54,070 --> 00:55:55,330 How is the perimeter? 755 00:55:57,250 --> 00:55:59,890 Uh, I've got 300 stationed around the edge. 756 00:56:01,110 --> 00:56:04,910 We've picked up a ten or twelve people from nearby farms. 757 00:56:05,370 --> 00:56:07,650 Mostly curious locals, innocent enough, I think. 758 00:56:08,330 --> 00:56:09,690 I'll talk to them. Where are they? Old friend. 759 00:56:12,970 --> 00:56:13,970 760 00:56:14,990 --> 00:56:15,850 We know each other well. 761 00:56:15,851 --> 00:56:17,870 They're by your side through many a hellish thing. 762 00:56:18,610 --> 00:56:20,630 But if we go to Trenton in daylight, 763 00:56:21,070 --> 00:56:22,670 and the Hessians are waiting for us, 764 00:56:24,310 --> 00:56:26,550 well, that is the end. You know that. 765 00:56:26,990 --> 00:56:27,990 You. 766 00:56:29,230 --> 00:56:32,090 They made me commander-in-chief of a great army. 767 00:56:32,710 --> 00:56:33,710 Leave that company here. 768 00:56:34,190 --> 00:56:36,750 Now I am commander-in-chief of those who remain. 769 00:56:38,770 --> 00:56:41,970 I've lost every chance and failed at every effort. 770 00:56:43,250 --> 00:56:45,670 This is not bluster hue, but so help me God. 771 00:56:45,830 --> 00:56:49,070 If I must ride into Trenton alone, I will do so. 772 00:57:16,700 --> 00:57:18,320 I am General Washington. 773 00:57:18,380 --> 00:57:19,380 Why are you holding it? Listen to me. 774 00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:23,780 Listen to me. 775 00:57:25,100 --> 00:57:28,380 In a few hours, we will march south to attack Trenton. 776 00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:31,980 If word of this gets out, hundreds of my men will die. 777 00:57:33,180 --> 00:57:36,640 You will be detained for three hours after we march, then you will be set free. 778 00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:39,500 I am sorry that you are suffering, 779 00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:41,480 but we are all suffering. 780 00:57:59,410 --> 00:58:01,070 God damn it, you. I know that. 781 00:58:01,630 --> 00:58:03,110 That's it. No more talk of time. 782 00:58:31,410 --> 00:58:32,410 General. 783 00:58:36,380 --> 00:58:37,380 He's done, sir. 784 00:58:40,100 --> 00:58:41,100 All across. 785 00:58:44,390 --> 00:58:45,390 Ready the men, Alex. 786 00:58:45,790 --> 00:58:47,550 There's no time to lose. We march in ten minutes. 787 00:58:47,551 --> 00:58:49,070 Sir. To your brigades, gentlemen. 788 00:58:49,470 --> 00:58:50,470 Sir. Sir. 789 00:58:50,710 --> 00:58:51,710 Glover. 790 00:58:53,170 --> 00:58:54,170 How are you fishermen? Tired, sir. 791 00:58:55,110 --> 00:58:57,350 But they'll march. 792 00:58:58,350 --> 00:58:59,350 How are they armed? Pikes, sir. 793 00:58:59,510 --> 00:59:01,950 Fission pikes. 794 00:59:03,770 --> 00:59:07,210 Well, you and your man lead Sullivan's column. Get with it. 795 00:59:07,530 --> 00:59:08,930 Come on, lads. Look alive. 796 00:59:09,470 --> 00:59:10,830 Look alive, lads. All right, lads. 797 00:59:11,710 --> 00:59:13,950 Get up. Come on, gentlemen. 798 00:59:13,951 --> 00:59:19,580 March and ten minutes. Warm up. 799 00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:21,460 Come on, lads. 800 00:59:21,720 --> 00:59:22,160 Come on, you there. 801 00:59:22,580 --> 00:59:23,840 Wake up. Keep the line. 802 00:59:27,410 --> 00:59:28,410 Glover. 803 00:59:30,750 --> 00:59:31,750 Thank you. 804 00:59:47,550 --> 00:59:48,950 Do you think our muskets will fire? No, I don't. 805 00:59:49,470 --> 00:59:50,470 806 00:59:51,030 --> 00:59:52,910 We go in with bayonets and nothing else. 807 00:59:53,250 --> 00:59:54,270 That you can be sure of. 808 00:59:55,270 --> 00:59:56,530 The Hessian powder is dry. 809 00:59:57,230 --> 00:59:58,730 That, too, you can be sure of. 810 01:01:14,380 --> 01:01:18,760 Wait here. C-2 with the Sullivan recognizes this road and takes his column south. 811 01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:20,120 Yes, sir. 812 01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:21,860 Get the guns moving, Henry. 813 01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:23,800 Advance. 814 01:01:24,020 --> 01:01:25,020 The guns advance. 815 01:01:29,020 --> 01:01:31,040 Keep them moving, Daniel. We cannot stop. 816 01:01:33,020 --> 01:01:34,020 Warm up, men. 817 01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:35,280 March. 818 01:01:36,180 --> 01:01:54,770 Come on, lads. A few more miles and we're there. 819 01:02:10,860 --> 01:02:12,780 Gentlemen, the river... 820 01:02:43,060 --> 01:02:46,460 It's 7.30. Find Sullivan, tell him we attack at eight, then get back here. 821 01:02:46,700 --> 01:02:47,700 Yes, sir. 822 01:02:53,900 --> 01:02:54,900 Go on home, boy. 823 01:02:59,310 --> 01:03:00,310 Take him and go home. 824 01:03:26,300 --> 01:03:28,460 Tell Sullivan we attack at eight. 825 01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:30,160 Any sign of the Hessians? 826 01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:31,800 No. God willing, we're still asleep. 827 01:03:32,220 --> 01:03:33,220 Eight o'clock. 828 01:03:40,230 --> 01:03:41,570 Where's the Hessian guardhouse? In there. 829 01:03:42,430 --> 01:03:43,430 830 01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:48,820 You be General Washington? 831 01:03:56,510 --> 01:03:57,510 Did you find him? Yes, sir. 832 01:03:58,070 --> 01:04:00,410 Sullivan will attack at eight o'clock. 833 01:04:02,590 --> 01:04:03,590 How many? 834 01:04:03,930 --> 01:04:04,930 How many what? 835 01:04:05,870 --> 01:04:07,770 How many Hessians in the guardhouse? 836 01:04:09,270 --> 01:04:10,270 Four, maybe six. 837 01:04:11,550 --> 01:04:13,110 But they'd be sleeping, General. 838 01:04:13,830 --> 01:04:15,430 They made a great celebration yesterday. 839 01:04:16,550 --> 01:04:19,670 Pass the order to fix bayonets, then spread your brigades across the meadows. 840 01:04:19,671 --> 01:04:20,950 We attack at eight. Get moving. 841 01:04:21,810 --> 01:04:22,370 Fix bayonets. 842 01:04:22,610 --> 01:04:25,210 Do you think you and your Williams could silence their farmhouse? Yes, sir. 843 01:04:31,250 --> 01:04:32,250 Then do so. 844 01:04:32,650 --> 01:04:33,650 845 01:04:36,150 --> 01:04:37,150 Williams with me. 846 01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:50,680 As behold, his guns are in torken. 847 01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:53,360 Bessos, Garnix. 848 01:06:21,970 --> 01:06:22,970 Done, sir. 849 01:06:23,590 --> 01:06:24,590 How many? Four, sir. 850 01:06:24,690 --> 01:06:25,690 851 01:06:27,670 --> 01:06:29,090 They're all dead. 852 01:09:04,020 --> 01:09:06,420 They're almost. They're fined. They're fined. 853 01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:08,560 Yeah, yeah. 854 01:09:13,130 --> 01:09:15,050 It's Psychology", O. 855 01:09:15,051 --> 01:09:16,051 It's which is which? Its Example. 856 01:09:17,110 --> 01:09:18,110 857 01:09:19,610 --> 01:09:21,550 Your own philosophy so... 858 01:11:34,400 --> 01:11:35,780 Psychology and sensation. 859 01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:37,740 They are Aubsing's metric miles. 860 01:11:38,540 --> 01:11:39,740 Its history, O. 861 01:12:56,280 --> 01:13:28,400 Let's go! 862 01:13:33,300 --> 01:13:34,300 Go! 863 01:13:38,750 --> 01:13:39,750 We're not going to shoot! 864 01:13:39,890 --> 01:13:46,190 And we are doing the same thing to run and 0-0! to the JL. 865 01:13:59,060 --> 01:14:04,190 We are going to run! 866 01:14:05,990 --> 01:14:06,230 We are going to shoot! 867 01:14:06,231 --> 01:14:08,750 What happened? 868 01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:23,240 It's coming home from him! 869 01:14:28,840 --> 01:14:29,520 To the left! 870 01:14:29,700 --> 01:14:30,700 It's in due case! 871 01:14:33,780 --> 01:15:32,180 You must not say a game. 872 01:15:32,580 --> 01:15:33,060 Yeah, I understand. 873 01:15:33,600 --> 01:15:35,040 As planned, you can't answer us. 874 01:15:35,540 --> 01:15:36,680 You must not say a game! 875 01:15:38,660 --> 01:15:40,040 You must not say a game! 876 01:16:35,810 --> 01:16:36,810 General Washington. 877 01:16:37,550 --> 01:16:38,630 Colonel Raul's sword. 878 01:16:40,030 --> 01:16:41,030 Send it to Congress. 879 01:16:43,510 --> 01:16:44,890 How badly is Raul hurt? 880 01:16:46,150 --> 01:16:46,930 Mortally, I think, sir. 881 01:16:47,030 --> 01:16:48,266 They've taken it to one of the houses. 882 01:16:48,290 --> 01:16:50,490 I sent Captain Heinemann and some of his men with them. 883 01:17:06,270 --> 01:17:07,310 Tell them I'm a physician. 884 01:17:08,250 --> 01:17:09,490 They're now a merciless artist. 885 01:17:09,730 --> 01:17:10,770 We'll be designing heifan. 886 01:17:17,070 --> 01:17:19,610 You have a kind hand, but I want to help you again. 887 01:17:19,970 --> 01:17:20,050 Yeah. 888 01:17:20,290 --> 01:17:21,290 Yeah. 889 01:17:22,210 --> 01:17:23,550 What did you say? 890 01:17:26,530 --> 01:17:27,726 Herr Oberst, what's happened to Gessach? 891 01:17:27,750 --> 01:17:28,750 I don't understand, sir. 892 01:17:29,050 --> 01:17:30,590 The house has no office here. 893 01:17:31,150 --> 01:17:32,650 I don't have an office here. 894 01:17:33,350 --> 01:17:34,570 It's a game. 895 01:17:35,090 --> 01:17:38,310 He says that he wants to surrender like a heist in office here, 896 01:17:39,210 --> 01:17:40,890 but only to General Washington. 897 01:17:42,290 --> 01:17:43,630 He'll surrender to me. 898 01:17:50,540 --> 01:17:53,420 Herr Oberst, they have a kind hand under a wall. 899 01:17:54,360 --> 01:17:57,540 They mustn't say to General Mercer or Gaben. 900 01:17:58,280 --> 01:17:59,280 Yes, sir. 901 01:18:01,640 --> 01:18:04,260 I've been here for a long time. 902 01:18:05,700 --> 01:18:08,340 And I've met General Washington. 903 01:18:09,300 --> 01:18:10,300 I'm very happy. 904 01:18:18,480 --> 01:18:19,480 Nathaniel. 905 01:18:20,480 --> 01:18:21,480 Get Washington. 906 01:18:21,980 --> 01:18:22,980 Bring him here. 907 01:18:23,600 --> 01:18:24,600 He won't come. 908 01:18:24,740 --> 01:18:25,440 Tell him he's done well. 909 01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:26,180 He must come. 910 01:18:26,181 --> 01:18:29,360 If there's one thing we should understand, it's defeat. 911 01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:31,560 His enemy is dying. 912 01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:34,160 Tell him that. 913 01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:37,840 Get over there. 914 01:18:48,740 --> 01:18:50,540 General Washington, Colonel Raul is dying. 915 01:18:56,940 --> 01:18:59,620 General Mercer says you cannot let him die without speaking to him. 916 01:19:00,440 --> 01:19:01,660 It's a courtesy of war. 917 01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:04,800 A courtesy? 918 01:19:04,801 --> 01:19:08,840 There are no courtesies of war, Nathaniel. 919 01:19:09,900 --> 01:19:11,300 This is not a parlor game, 920 01:19:11,620 --> 01:19:14,040 where I must pay my respects to that stinking 921 01:19:14,041 --> 01:19:15,980 mercenary who killed 500 of my men in Brooklyn. 922 01:19:17,340 --> 01:19:19,620 Slaughtered them when they tried to surrender. 923 01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:22,080 Skewered them in the backs with the bayonets. 924 01:19:23,180 --> 01:19:25,260 Do you want me to weep for those bastards? 925 01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:26,860 Men who kill for profit? 926 01:19:29,260 --> 01:19:30,960 Our own cause is at its heart. 927 01:19:31,840 --> 01:19:33,980 A fight against British taxation, is it not? Find him up. 928 01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:35,800 Find him up. 929 01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:36,960 930 01:19:37,200 --> 01:19:39,620 In the answer, we all kill for profit. 931 01:19:40,980 --> 01:19:42,140 The British and the Hessians. 932 01:19:43,340 --> 01:19:44,340 And us. 933 01:19:45,820 --> 01:19:46,820 Give him. 934 01:19:47,620 --> 01:19:48,620 Keep together. 935 01:19:50,660 --> 01:19:52,300 What are you looking at? Get over there. 936 01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:55,600 937 01:19:57,760 --> 01:19:59,140 Very well, Nathaniel. 938 01:20:00,520 --> 01:20:02,620 You must not let them think we're savages. 939 01:20:19,040 --> 01:20:20,980 He's very weak. He hasn't long. 940 01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:29,040 He asks if you are... 941 01:20:32,660 --> 01:20:33,800 I am Washington. 942 01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:19,880 He's dead. 943 01:21:31,470 --> 01:21:32,730 Gentlemen, where do we stand? 944 01:21:33,270 --> 01:21:34,550 We have their cannons, sir. 945 01:21:34,910 --> 01:21:37,070 Six double-fort high brass, six pounders. 946 01:21:37,150 --> 01:21:38,326 Better than anything, we have them. 947 01:21:38,350 --> 01:21:40,746 Tell Knox I want the cannons loaded and rigged for marching. 948 01:21:40,770 --> 01:21:41,770 What else? 949 01:21:41,950 --> 01:21:43,330 Three ammunition wagons. 950 01:21:44,270 --> 01:21:47,010 Forty-nine Hessian horses, blankets, clothes. 951 01:21:47,870 --> 01:21:50,730 About five tons of flour, meat, cornmeal. 952 01:21:51,030 --> 01:21:52,030 How many prisoners? Over 900, sir. 953 01:21:52,530 --> 01:21:55,430 We haven't an exact count yet. 954 01:21:56,030 --> 01:21:58,810 Thirty commissioned officers, also all their colors and drums. 955 01:21:59,430 --> 01:22:00,290 We'll find some drummers. 956 01:22:00,450 --> 01:22:02,050 I want a beat when we march out of here. 957 01:22:02,370 --> 01:22:02,910 Captain Heinemann. 958 01:22:03,330 --> 01:22:07,530 I want you to march with the Hessian officers. 959 01:22:08,330 --> 01:22:11,070 And have one of your German lads with every group of 960 01:22:11,071 --> 01:22:12,830 Hessian prisoners so that we will be able to speak to them. 961 01:22:13,770 --> 01:22:16,590 Your men will inform the Hessians that any man who tries to escape will be shot. 962 01:22:16,591 --> 01:22:17,591 963 01:22:17,790 --> 01:22:18,790 Is that plain? I vote. 964 01:22:22,070 --> 01:22:23,070 Now get to it. 965 01:22:23,410 --> 01:22:25,070 We march in half an hour. 966 01:22:25,570 --> 01:22:27,890 Where are we marching to, sir? 967 01:22:28,270 --> 01:22:30,470 Back to the boats and across the river. 968 01:22:34,380 --> 01:22:36,700 But the men are exhausted. 969 01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:40,040 They're sleeping in the roads, in the meadows. 970 01:22:40,620 --> 01:22:41,940 They can't hold their heads up. 971 01:22:42,300 --> 01:22:44,180 I too am exhausted, gentlemen. 972 01:22:44,920 --> 01:22:45,820 Now listen to me. 973 01:22:45,900 --> 01:22:48,800 We have won our first victory in twelve months. 974 01:22:48,801 --> 01:22:51,920 We have attacked the enemy for the first time, 975 01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:56,260 and out of some miracle or the graciousness 976 01:22:56,261 --> 01:22:59,460 of God or the idiocy of war, we have survived. 977 01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:02,340 What can you be thinking? 978 01:23:03,500 --> 01:23:04,560 Have we won a war? 979 01:23:07,260 --> 01:23:09,620 Gentlemen, this is only the beginning of a war. 980 01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:14,740 We have two thousand men. 981 01:23:15,080 --> 01:23:17,020 The enemy has twenty thousand. 982 01:23:17,021 --> 01:23:23,720 And I swear I will not eat nor will I sleep until I put that river between him and us. 983 01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:31,800 Now, go to your brigades, gentlemen, and prepare to march. 984 01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:49,740 Hugh, how many men have we lost? None. 985 01:23:50,480 --> 01:23:51,480 Wounded? None. 986 01:23:54,070 --> 01:23:55,070 Oh, my God. 987 01:23:58,360 --> 01:23:59,360 988 01:24:08,550 --> 01:24:26,930 Do you know how I have felt these past twenty-four hours? I can guess. 989 01:24:28,210 --> 01:24:29,210 990 01:24:29,870 --> 01:24:35,170 Like a madman sending these beautiful lads to their deaths. 991 01:24:36,610 --> 01:24:38,890 All these boys that would follow me. 992 01:24:43,270 --> 01:24:44,810 Why did they do it? 993 01:24:47,270 --> 01:24:48,990 I suppose they'd trust you. 994 01:24:51,070 --> 01:24:52,070 More of the fools. 995 01:24:53,950 --> 01:24:55,190 And love you. 996 01:25:03,850 --> 01:25:04,850 Very well, Hugh. 997 01:25:06,370 --> 01:25:07,450 Best to get your men ready.