Bannon's War Room - August 27, 2026


WarRoom Battleground EP 1077： The 250th Anniversary Of The Battle Of Brooklyn


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00:01:02.880 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
00:01:11.040 It's Thursday, 27 August in the year of our Lord, 2026.
00:01:14.880 Okay, momentarily, as soon as we work out our ability to capture the stream that's coming from the American Legion Hall in Brooklyn, New York, this is very near where, in fact, this hall where the individuals that put up the money or the group that put up the money, the American Legion post, that put up the money to put the plaque.
00:01:37.880 what is the plaque the plaque commemorates um a event on the first day of the american
00:01:46.960 revolutionary war this is i think kind of the first day because the british troops the british
00:01:52.980 expeditionary force would landed in uh started landing in staten island even before the declaration
00:02:00.520 was signed a couple uh early vessels showed up i think on the third and fourth of july the bulk
00:02:06.800 of it got there by mid to late july uh general howell uh his brother was admiral howell the
00:02:13.060 the expedition of the naval forces was massive i think it's the largest they'd ever had i believe
00:02:18.880 it was over 300 vessels both logistics and men of war so as you can imagine new york harbor was
00:02:27.080 absolutely packed the bulk of the troops were on staten island they were moved over to sheepshead
00:02:32.160 bay uh i think that would have been last night and today they were in place and ready to roll
00:02:37.680 there was a huge sweeping movement across long island and then up into uh brooklyn heights
00:02:44.240 uh on the first day of the battle this first day of the american revolutionary war kind of went
00:02:49.700 exactly like the british thought it would obviously not in all the particulars but their plan was
00:02:55.620 against a very green continental army uh that was fairly inexperienced although we had had
00:03:02.360 victories already at boston in fact a i think a pretty big victory in boston the siege of boston
00:03:08.220 the um the the continental army was still pretty inexperienced had some militia groups
00:03:14.400 with them but the strategy is very simple shatter the continental army on a three-prong approach
00:03:20.620 three-prong attack and force them back to Brooklyn Heights in the East River
00:03:25.340 with their backs to the river, then just deliver a hammer blow and crush them.
00:03:29.840 The retreat stopped from being absolute rout and fiasco because they had a,
00:03:35.500 um, they had a stone.
00:03:37.220 There was a stone house there that, uh, the Maryland regiment,
00:03:41.220 kind of a, an elite regiment from Maryland among some of the finest families
00:03:45.000 in Maryland, the Maryland 400, uh, attacked and attacked and attacked
00:03:50.000 kind of as a rear guard action to slow the advance of the british army and slowing that advance they
00:03:55.860 gave enough time for the continentals and the militia groups to reform their ranks and to uh
00:04:02.820 and to make sure they didn't get the crushing blow uh that uh that day and so this was a uh
00:04:09.200 this is a historic moment now we don't really know it's very close to this american legion hall
00:04:14.820 we're going to go to patrick k o'donnell who's been on this show and been with me at breitbart
00:04:20.040 for i think on over 10 12 years of doing the combat histories of different you know we do
00:04:25.620 memorial day we do fourth of july we do christmas um patrick k o'donnell who really got inspired 16
00:04:32.520 years ago when he made a trip and uh with willie buell and if you remember the last 600 meters
00:04:38.140 uh colonel buell is one of the stars of that movie about the battles of najaf and fallujah
00:04:45.080 He went there on one of these exercise, or people go on these trips, these expeditions where they go to battlefields and kind of walk battlefields.
00:04:53.660 Well, a lot of people don't know, one of the most important battlefields in the country is in Brooklyn, kind of in downtown Brooklyn today.
00:05:02.240 Of course, other is when they crossed over to be in Manhattan.
00:05:05.360 And so in the first days of the war, and this is really the very first days of the American War of Independence, Buell took him, walked him, and he saw the plaque.
00:05:14.760 There's a little plaque there, I think on a wall next to a pub, and it talks about the Maryland 400.
00:05:22.840 They are in a mass unmarked grave.
00:05:26.940 We still don't know technically where it is, but it's within a very, very short distance, yards from where their sign is.
00:05:34.080 But, folks, we haven't really been able to find it, of course.
00:05:38.200 Hopefully, this will inspire people to do a search.
00:05:42.040 What I'm going to do, we're getting the live stream up.
00:05:43.960 Let's go ahead.
00:05:44.320 I did an interview just moments ago with the post, the colonel that's the head of the post.
00:05:48.980 Let's go ahead and cut to that interview.
00:05:51.960 What this means in terms of the American Legion is the American Legion honors our veterans.
00:05:57.740 And these are our first veterans.
00:05:59.660 Of course, the country was born with the sign of the dead decoration.
00:06:04.080 down in Philadelphia. Well, it was paid for with blood here in New York. This is the first major
00:06:08.920 battle. And it turns out that we want to recognize that every year. Actually, 80 years ago, the
00:06:15.580 American Legion, the county, put a plaque around the corner on one of the buildings, as we believe
00:06:21.880 that the Maryland 400 are buried here, sacred grounds. And that was the ones who died in combat
00:06:29.380 in defense of the Cotoglio House.
00:06:33.100 And it turns out that since then,
00:06:36.780 we used to read the names by the flagpole,
00:06:39.620 but then about 30 years ago,
00:06:41.460 they started doing it at the Stone House.
00:06:44.120 And we participate with them every anniversary.
00:06:48.820 It took place last Saturday.
00:06:50.640 And then we retreat here to do a commemoration outside
00:06:54.660 as we believe in these sacred grounds.
00:06:56.680 However, today is special in terms of being the 250th anniversary. We do want to have that commemoration here for the Maryland 400.
00:07:10.060 colonel let me ask you uh you know everybody knows about the signing of the declaration
00:07:17.420 and we celebrate the fourth of july this is really as important because the revolutionary
00:07:22.280 war essentially started today with the maryland 400 and and everybody else in the battle of long
00:07:28.640 island but this is really the american thermopoly if it had not been for these heroes slowing down
00:07:33.900 the british invasion they may have driven general washington's continental army into the east river
00:07:39.420 What are your thoughts about telling America about the importance of this battle, which has got to be in the top 10 most important battles in the history of the country?
00:07:49.760 If not in the top five, I mean, I always said that if the Maryland 400 didn't do what they did, we would be speaking the king's English.
00:08:02.500 The revolution would have been over.
00:08:03.600 So that's the uttermost importance in terms of the importance of this particular event and group, the Maryland 400.
00:08:15.060 Absolutely. Can you tell us a little about the Legion Post? Can you tell us your history, how it was named, the hero it's named after from World War II?
00:08:23.440 What's the history of the Post there in Brooklyn?
00:08:26.240 it turns out that we got put in for the charter in 1920 1947 and then we ended up getting our
00:08:35.860 charter like in about 1953 and this building itself in the mid-50s this was an old church
00:08:42.240 i always joke that you know it's full of spirits and of course we do have a bar but
00:08:47.320 uh it is important that we this particular room we do conduct our meetings uh american
00:08:53.820 Legion has four pillars, like I said, veterans, and then we have Americanism, national security,
00:08:58.280 children, and youth. And a lot of my decisions, if not all my decisions, are based on those pillars.
00:09:04.960 And again, talking about the Mellon 400, that's what we do. This is taking care of our veterans
00:09:13.780 and remembering the veterans. Because there was, I wouldn't say, proper recognition in terms of a
00:09:21.580 place you can go. That's why it's so important for us to do this ceremony, particularly by the
00:09:27.300 flagpole, because a stone's throw away, like across the street, is where we believe they are hidden by
00:09:33.740 time. Oh, in terms of the post itself, Michael A. Raleigh, like you mentioned, he died in Belgium
00:09:42.960 actually on January 1st, 1945. And I believe he used to live like, well, we're on the border of
00:09:50.520 the Gowanus and Park Slope, and he lived probably, I believe, on 6th Avenue up by 12th Street,
00:09:57.620 and when we used to have a parade, we used to go past his house, but it turns out that
00:10:04.160 that's the name of the post, and we continue on with our mission.
00:10:11.660 Commander, Post Commander, do we have any, Colonel, do we have any social media? Do you
00:10:15.340 have a Facebook site or a website that people can go to to find out more about the sacred ground
00:10:19.620 there at the American Thermopylae in the first day of the American Revolutionary War?
00:10:26.580 We do not have our website updated at this time, but we are brooklynlegion.org,
00:10:32.240 and we hope to have that page updated, hopefully not too long in the near future.
00:10:41.780 Thank you, sir.
00:10:42.520 So that is brooklynlegion.org.
00:10:45.520 You're more than welcome.
00:10:46.600 Thank you, Colonel. And thank you. And thank you for letting us participate.
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00:13:55.600 thank you all that concludes this portion of the evening's program i would like to hand the mic off
00:14:18.640 Okay, thank you. Everybody, please, let's come inside. We're now going to hear from Mr. O'Donnell. Come on inside. This time, you guys can have a seat. The memorial service is over. Thank you very much. Come on inside. Everyone take a seat.
00:14:36.840 What's the timeline on the 15 minute ride?
00:14:46.840 730 is the event?
00:14:47.840 Or funeral?
00:15:00.840 Dry, that's Tom.
00:15:02.840 he just walked in
00:15:08.240 the elite fighting force of the americans so please without further ado uh listen up and
00:15:15.540 then after that we will uh we'll serve some food and hear from more of our guests patrick
00:15:19.220 come on. It's an honor and privilege to be here today. I can also read the room. I know
00:15:37.740 everybody's hungry, so I'm going to keep it fairly short. But anyways, for me, this is
00:15:43.040 special full circle moment because 16 years ago I was here and I found the
00:15:51.020 rusted old site it was rusted then got a paint job but I was here with the
00:15:56.120 battalion commander I was with in Fallujah and it's a special thing when
00:15:59.720 you go to battle with somebody and you walk the hallowed ground with them and
00:16:05.360 for me it's a miracle that I was on the stage live I was a combat historian
00:16:10.840 3-1 and we saw some really hard combat book I wrote on that it's called We Were One it's about
00:16:17.960 eight best friends and only three survived it's on three commandants reading professional reading
00:16:22.680 this required reading but that day we met at Greenwood Cemetery and we walked down the alleys
00:16:29.640 of Brooklyn we went up to Greenwood Cemetery where they first did battle then came down here found
00:16:35.560 on the rusted old sign, and I looked up and saw 256 Continental soldiers barrowing heroes,
00:16:42.540 and I said to myself, where are they buried, and what is their story? Nobody had written
00:16:49.380 a book about it at that time, and I wanted to know more. I wanted to know what the story
00:16:55.400 was behind that sign and who those men were, and that story begins on a wintry day in 1774
00:17:03.380 where men of honor, family, and fortune came together to form the Baltimore Independent Cadets
00:17:10.420 for the first company, the first Baltimore Independent Company.
00:17:14.800 They wanted to defend their fellow colonies at 48 hours' notice.
00:17:19.220 They put their fortunes on the line.
00:17:22.680 The best money, the equipment that they could buy and train, they trained for months.
00:17:28.460 But their first combat would be here in Brooklyn.
00:17:33.380 On August 26th last night, 250 years ago, the battle begins outside of the Western Gate at Greenwood Cemetery at the Red Line Inn at that time, where British scouts were probing the American lines, and they came across the watermelon patch behind the Red Line Inn.
00:17:55.720 and the first shots were fired by Edward Hamm's riflemen.
00:18:00.720 They repelled the scouts, and then the Battle of Brooklyn unfolds.
00:18:06.800 The bulk of Washington's army is out on the Juannas Heights Greenwood Cemetery location,
00:18:13.860 but what was going on was a giant flanking maneuver.
00:18:17.680 There were four passes.
00:18:19.760 The fourth pass was only guarded by five horsemen.
00:18:22.540 They were quickly apprehended, and Lord Howe and Henry Clinton went through the Jamaica Pass in a giant flanking maneuver.
00:18:31.380 And it was at this point in the morning that Maureen Guy Gist of the Maryland 400, who was the major at the time, the second-in command, is rousted by the shots that are fired.
00:18:42.700 And they move towards Greenwood Cemetery, Lord Sterling, and all the men.
00:18:48.000 And it's here that they do battle with General Grant and his 4,000 men.
00:18:53.440 And they hold their ground at Greenwood Cemetery.
00:18:57.160 But for hours, Cornwallis' group and Howe's group are going through Jamaica Pass
00:19:03.120 and flanking the American position.
00:19:07.760 And it's here, to their utter horror, that they realize that they are being surrounded
00:19:12.500 and they have to fight their way back to the Stone House, which is a few blocks down the road.
00:19:18.740 And it's here that they do battle.
00:19:20.560 They have to fight in files.
00:19:22.100 Their companies are separated, and it's utter chaos.
00:19:27.240 It is here that the American Revolution is at a pivotal point where all can be lost.
00:19:35.120 The British have overwhelming force,
00:19:37.900 and if they are able to attack the fortifications in Brooklyn Heights,
00:19:41.840 With the combined wings of their armies, they could destroy Washington's army right then and there, potentially capture Washington, and end the Revolutionary War.
00:19:52.920 But here, Lord Sterling gathers five companies of Marylanders, and they make an epic series of bayonet charges at the Stone House that is occupied by Cornwallis.
00:20:04.700 This rear guard action allows the bulk of the American army to flee and escape through Boz Creek and the milk pond and give to the safety of the American lines, the perceived safety.
00:20:20.060 Because what happens is it's an hour more precious in our history than any other, as a contemporary historian would say.
00:20:27.900 They bought time, precious daylight, because it would be very difficult for the British to mount a night attack, even with their experienced army.
00:20:38.400 But that stand will save the United States and the army.
00:20:42.860 But they are not safe, because the army is surrounded by 20,000 men at its front.
00:20:50.060 The Royal Navy occupies New York Harbor.
00:20:52.800 The East River separates Brooklyn from Manhattan and safety.
00:20:57.900 And it's here that there's a massive nor'easter that pelts both armies as Lord Howell digs in and conducts siege lines.
00:21:08.400 But Washington has to decide what to do, fight or retreat.
00:21:13.720 At the Four Chimneys, which is a mansion in Brooklyn, he gathers his men for a council of war and they advise that he withdraw.
00:21:21.440 But that is one of the most impossible and difficult operations in military operations
00:21:29.440 is to escape from an enemy that's in front when they also control the river and the waterways.
00:21:35.440 And it falls upon the shoulders of John Glover and the Marblehead Mariners to gather all
00:21:41.440 of the boats on August 29th to conduct a miracle.
00:21:47.440 And with only hours to spare, they bring the votes together.
00:21:51.000 They're told initially that they are going to attack the British lines
00:21:54.060 because they know that secrecy is a must.
00:21:57.200 A single person that blows the operation, the British will pounce.
00:22:02.100 And that night, nothing is working for the Marblehead Mariners.
00:22:06.700 The tides are wrong. The wind is wrong.
00:22:08.800 But somehow, they keep going.
00:22:12.220 They try to find Washington to call out the operation. It fails.
00:22:15.400 They can't find him, and it pushes forward.
00:22:18.300 The tides change, but it's a race against time to somehow save the Army because dawn is coming.
00:22:26.080 They have to make 12 trips back in court against this raging torrent East River.
00:22:32.180 But dawn is coming, and it's at this point that a providential fog sets in and screens the movement of all other boats.
00:22:40.680 And they're able to bring off the Army to save them.
00:22:44.520 And that is just the beginning for the Marylanders, the Marbleheaders, and the riflemen of an eight-year-long war.
00:22:53.580 These men will fight in both the North and the South.
00:22:58.400 The Marylanders will fight eight years of war, and they will help win the American Revolution in the South.
00:23:04.180 One soldier that was with them had a diary that recorded every day's march.
00:23:08.500 From 1780 to 1783, he recorded 5,000 miles on foot of marching and fighting, and somehow surviving.
00:23:22.000 But that's about the spirit of these men.
00:23:24.880 They were fighting for liberty and freedom, for an idea.
00:23:29.720 And that's why it all matters, because they saved our country that day,
00:23:34.120 and it's these founding principles which will save our country now.
00:23:38.500 it's time to bring me 400 home.
00:23:41.440 Thank you very much.
00:23:48.000 Give a round of applause again for wonderful
00:23:50.380 and thank you for writing and telling this story.
00:23:54.520 I believe some members of the American Legion
00:23:57.140 have a certificate of you.
00:23:59.340 Chris, want to bring that up?
00:24:03.200 Hey, I was on my phone when you called me.
00:24:08.500 Oh, you want me to come on and do a hit?
00:24:13.840 Okay.
00:24:18.800 I will try to do the how long do we have.
00:24:24.920 Yeah, the problem is that if my AirPods aren't cooperating, it's not allowing me to share my AirPods.
00:24:34.220 Okay.
00:24:35.300 Thank you.
00:24:36.060 Patrick K. O'Donnell is getting an award there.
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00:24:42.300 We'll try to get David Zier back up.
00:24:44.680 Very nice little ceremony in commemoration for the Maryland 400.
00:24:52.060 256 of the Marylanders gave their life on the first day of battle.
00:24:57.000 And, of course, but they bought time.
00:25:00.120 They bought precious time, as Patrick K. O'Donnell says.
00:25:02.780 The American Thermopylae.
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00:25:08.080 It was the Greeks versus the, wait for it, the Persians who were coming to attack Greece.
00:25:16.340 So the West has been dealing with the Persians for quite a while.
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00:31:57.140 back out to the um to the american legion post david zier is live he's outside david it was a
00:32:02.740 very touching and moving little ceremony they had out there just take us back to it one more time i
00:32:08.400 know you being a new york city guy you've got to be so proud today that the the kickoff to the
00:32:15.040 american war of independence really uh really started today post july 4th obviously we had
00:32:21.300 lexington concord we had boston but this is where the british were coming and we're not going to
00:32:26.840 you know 32 000 combat troops 300 warships and or logistics ships they were there to take new
00:32:34.180 York and not give it up. David Zier, your thoughts and observations on today.
00:32:39.120 Yes, Steve. This is a diamond in the rough here. Park Slope slash Gowanus, right? The British came
00:32:46.420 in. The Maryland 400, and we'll let Patrick O'Donnell go into that more, were stationed here.
00:32:52.680 They helped defend our troops. Over 250 guys died. A lot were captured that day when the British
00:32:59.660 troops. I think they flanked us and came up and we really had no shot at defending our position
00:33:06.900 long term here. We lost a lot of guys. A lot of guys were taken prisoner and starved on the ships,
00:33:12.260 I believe, in New York Harbor and other. But this was a memorable experience here as, you know,
00:33:18.500 they have the American Legion Post 1636 here with Commander Hardy, Lieutenant Colonel Retired
00:33:26.880 hardy uh was really uh you know great and he came outside here into this courtyard behind us
00:33:33.800 and you know normally you hear gunshots in brooklyn but not from a musket rifle and they did
00:33:38.840 they presented arms and uh they did uh they saluted the flag and a couple of shots were
00:33:44.700 were fired off and um there was a moment of silence a prayer uh also as well and uh you see
00:33:52.200 in the video here um you know it's a pretty pretty spectacular you know he loaded his musket and
00:33:58.380 fired three shots um and uh inside uh general washington addressed uh those in attendance here
00:34:05.360 uh but you know this is great stuff like every school should have their kids come here and
00:34:10.640 experience something like do this they do this every year supposedly there is a mass grave here
00:34:15.900 somewhere in brooklyn you know i'm in the building business the builders i represented used to come
00:34:20.760 across arrowheads and artifacts but never muskets and rifles and and uh you know uh bayonets right
00:34:27.480 and this was a bayonet charge that defended our troops uh they went after the british uh and they
00:34:33.360 saved our original american army we may not be a country today if they didn't take that stand here
00:34:39.840 a very special day no no colonel hardy i think said it best if they hadn't taken that stand very
00:34:46.580 well on the very first day of the battle of this war post uh post uh july 4th we could ended up
00:34:55.140 speaking the king's english we're going to play by the way the little sermon instant tires of
00:34:59.080 denver just hold it for a second i want to david do we have a sense geographically where you are
00:35:04.880 right now in park slope guamas um where the potential mass grave there's 256 combatants
00:35:15.000 who were killed the captured were taken to brooklyn on those horrible uh uh ships prisoner
00:35:22.020 warships that matthew taylor and vince haley and others uh you know did the tremendous statue
00:35:29.480 uh down at freedom plaza to commemorate that because the story of the brooklyn
00:35:34.880 really concentration camps floating concentration camps where i believed 18 000 colonials died
00:35:42.260 which was, I think, two or three times what the actual combatants killed in action were.
00:35:46.840 Does anybody have any idea?
00:35:48.560 I know the plaque is nearby, but does anybody have any sense of where the mass grave is,
00:35:53.500 about where they were actually buried?
00:35:55.960 I don't have that information.
00:35:58.180 It's in the area here, but I do know that the Stone House was down on 4th Street.
00:36:03.940 We're on 9th Street right here.
00:36:05.660 And it's only a few blocks away where that stand was made also as the British entered that watermelon patch.
00:36:15.340 And it's just an incredible, incredible, you know, story here that rarely gets told.
00:36:22.900 You know, most, I bet if you asked the 2.8 million Long Islanders plus Brooklyn and Queens, they wouldn't even know about it, you know.
00:36:29.300 And again, the largest and first battle of the American Revolution.
00:36:34.040 Maybe Patrick O'Donnell can throw some more light on that for you.
00:36:38.880 We're going to go to Patrick in a minute.
00:36:40.640 Just hang on a second.
00:36:42.140 Let me ask you, geographically, how far as the crow flies are we from Brooklyn Heights in the East River from where you stand right now?
00:36:52.560 You're just several blocks away.
00:36:54.400 I think, say, less than an eighth of a mile.
00:36:56.700 You know, the East River is here, and they cross the East River at night.
00:37:02.800 You know, this is not a calm waterway.
00:37:06.600 You have currents ripping through there, 7, 10 knots.
00:37:09.380 The weather was miserable.
00:37:11.160 There were thunderstorms, I believe, that day, according to historic accounts that I've read.
00:37:17.660 And George Washington took advantage of it, and the fog helped conceal the boat that brought over horsemen.
00:37:26.700 and weapons and other and they were able to stage uh that escape uh in the middle of the night and
00:37:32.760 it's right here it's a stone's throw so that will take place on saturday it was a couple days but
00:37:39.260 today on the first day it shows you how close they got to actually rolling up the army that
00:37:43.120 they were that close and it shows you how necessary in that the by a few precious hours
00:37:48.640 256 men gave their lives okay what we're going to do now dave uh david's here by the way david
00:37:54.180 what is your social media you're going to be our anchor for everything on the 25th anniversary of
00:38:00.080 9-11 and as i tell people all the time nobody off the top of their head can give you more information
00:38:06.080 about the radical jihadists trying to take over new york from from for the 10 for was it 10 or 12
00:38:12.920 years leading up to 9-11 than david zier david zier is going to be anchoring all our coverage
00:38:17.580 uh that day he'll be in the field down there as we commemorate a real america's voice the 25th
00:38:23.140 anniversary what's your social media david yeah thank you steve at dave zier dave zier on x and
00:38:29.760 david zier on all the other socials and i really appreciate you having me on
00:38:33.280 what do you mean tremendous you did such a great job down on fourth of july when we had the greatest
00:38:40.440 naval armada kind of modern pulled together okay let's go ahead i want to replay the commemoration
00:38:46.680 of the event they just had and we're going to get on patrick k o'donnell
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00:42:41.300 Patrick, very poignant little ceremony today.
00:42:46.940 Great talk that you gave.
00:42:49.840 Like I said, I said it was probably in the top ten battles in American history,
00:42:54.660 and the colonel correctly says, hey, Bannon, I think it might be top five.
00:42:58.640 What say you, Patrick K. O'Donnell?
00:43:01.640 Maybe the top.
00:43:03.520 It's definitely up there in the one or two range.
00:43:07.040 It's amazing how close.
00:43:09.420 I don't think there's ever been a situation where the United States could have been lost entirely.
00:43:15.940 There's a second – the Second Battle of Trenton is another close one where they could have split the army in half and destroyed it.
00:43:23.280 But here, a British victory could have been total, and it would have ended the American Revolutionary War.
00:43:30.200 It's an extraordinary battle that few people know about.
00:43:33.840 And just – it was just – today was so special to be able to commemorate these men that fell this day 250 years ago that saved our country and the fellowship here.
00:43:47.200 This is extraordinary.
00:43:50.660 You've been doing this with me, whether at Breitbart Radio or the Breitbart website and or here at SiriusXM.
00:43:59.080 We had Breitbart Radio News there and on the War Room, I don't know, for about a dozen years.
00:44:05.100 Talk to me about the journey, your journey on this book, Washington's Immortals, which
00:44:10.240 you're really the first one to do a detailed kind of biography of the regiment and specifically
00:44:15.340 this battle that you really brought to light.
00:44:18.220 What is your personal journey on this?
00:44:20.300 That was, this has been such a personal journey, Steve, because 16 years ago, almost to this
00:44:26.520 day this this month is when willie buell and i walk this ground we found the rusted old sign
00:44:34.980 only a few yards away from me at the michael raleigh american legion post where we're at now
00:44:40.620 and it struck me that was such a powerful moment i wanted to know who these men were
00:44:47.700 why you know what the sacrifice they made and yet they're still their remains are buried
00:44:55.320 somewhere here under a sidewalk or under a building.
00:44:59.520 We don't know.
00:45:00.300 I mean, and many were captured.
00:45:02.160 But granted, there were scores of men
00:45:04.780 that were killed this day, 250 years ago,
00:45:08.100 and their remains have still not been brought home.
00:45:10.940 I wanted to know that story, the enduring mystery.
00:45:13.400 I wanted to solve that mystery.
00:45:15.320 And that was the journey that began.
00:45:17.540 And it was a difficult one.
00:45:19.900 My publisher didn't even want to touch the book.
00:45:21.980 They wanted me to write only World War II books.
00:45:23.760 that's a sort of a miracle in and of itself i had a new publisher and eventually uh you know
00:45:31.540 we sold hundreds of thousands of copies of washington's immortals it's been really
00:45:34.940 a tremendous journey to be able to to connect with the families of those men that are you know
00:45:41.240 still out there uh and i spoke at the maryland state house where washington resigns his commission
00:45:47.700 in front of all the officers of the maryland line one of the most extraordinary and important
00:45:53.540 moments in American history where George Washington, who could have been a dictator
00:45:58.500 or king, resigns his commission and gives back power to civilian control. It's, you know, it's
00:46:05.740 all tied together of, you know, the freedom, the ideals of freedom and liberty that these men
00:46:12.540 who gave up everything, including their lives, their fortunes to, you know, for a nation that
00:46:19.580 had just been born only a month earlier they sign the declaration of independence in their own blood
00:46:26.040 and they they save our country um real quickly we got a couple of minutes i want to talk about
00:46:33.400 the new book when can people get that once they're going to come out the new book is is will
00:46:39.260 publish on the marine corps birthday on november 10th it's called revolutionary snipers and that
00:46:44.860 book has a connection with this story too. It's at the watermelon patch that I mentioned
00:46:50.560 at Greenwind Cemetery on August 26th that night. It's Edward Hand's revolutionary snipers
00:46:56.900 that repel the British scouts. And the largest battle up until that point of the Revolutionary
00:47:01.960 War begins in the watermelon patch with these men. And they play a key role in the entire
00:47:07.300 Revolutionary War. It's only a few months later that 25 of these men will hold off three or four
00:47:13.940 thousand british troops that land that land at throg's neck and it's there that they repel a
00:47:19.720 british invasion and save washington's army and they do it over and over again at the second
00:47:24.340 battle of trenton at the forage war at the battle of saratoga cow pens guilford courthouse it's it's
00:47:32.600 a legendary and epic story of americans in many cases it's about the um rugged individuals of of
00:47:40.700 the frontiersmen that are long hunters before the war that will go deep into the, you know,
00:47:47.640 behind the Appalachian Mountains with the Native Americans and survive woodcraft.
00:47:52.760 These are really the first special forces and the first members of the Continental Army,
00:47:58.760 the first 10 companies that were all member riflemen.
00:48:06.400 Revolutionary snipers, Steve.
00:48:07.660 Where do people go?
00:48:08.460 you can yes you read my mind uh at combat historian is my twitter and get her account
00:48:15.360 and you know books are on you can go to amazon.com or barnes and noble and pre-order revolutionary
00:48:22.300 snipers the fantastic at barnes and nobles or amazon they love that because it just it boosts
00:48:27.440 the orders across the board i'm gonna grab you i'm gonna grab you after the show we want to do
00:48:32.440 something on saturday to commemorate the american dunkirk i'll get to you but i want to tell you
00:48:36.500 something publishing particularly military history have been very focused on world war ii
00:48:41.180 there's it was patrick k o'donnell that really i don't think it was atkinson because i think your
00:48:46.300 book came out before his you changed really the direction of military publishing when you said
00:48:50.880 hey i'm gonna do something on the revolutionary war and i got it washington immortals kind of
00:48:55.860 broke you know broke the uh broke the mold and said hey it's not just world war ii we've got
00:49:01.440 other wars and other great stories of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances that became
00:49:07.440 uh heroes patrick k o'donnell i'll talk to you after the show great job up there say thank you
00:49:12.800 to everybody up at the uh american legion post in brooklyn and uh we'll see you on saturday sir
00:49:18.440 thank you thank you so much steve patrick k o'donnell now how now how can you get better
00:49:25.380 in this we're going to toss to dolly parton when she left uh porter wagoner when she left porter
00:49:32.900 wagoner she wrote a song here's that song an american classic we'll be back at 10 a.m eastern
00:49:38.300 daylight time tomorrow morning when you will be back in the war room i'd like to do a song for
00:49:45.000 you now that i wrote this is song that i had out a few months back and hope maybe you might enjoy
00:49:49.460 this one in everybody's life there's a special person a person that you love more than you love
00:49:54.980 anybody else. There's a song about that special person in my life. It's called, I Will Always
00:50:00.220 Love You.
00:50:04.680 If I should stay, thank you. I would only be in your way. So I'll go. But I know
00:50:24.980 I'll think of you each step of the way, and I will always love you, I will always love you.
00:50:49.980 Bittersweet memories
00:50:57.980 That's all I am taking with me
00:51:05.980 Goodbye, please don't cry
00:51:11.980 Cause we both know that I'm not what you need
00:51:20.660 But I will always love you
00:51:29.500 I will always love you
00:51:41.980 And I hope life treats you kind, and I hope that you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy, and I wish you lots of happiness, oh, but above all of this, I wish you love.
00:52:09.480 And I will always love you
00:52:17.480 I will always love you
00:52:24.480 I will always love you
00:52:33.480 Thank you
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