[SPEAKER_00] Thank you for watching.
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[SPEAKER_01] Hold and stay your be-
[SPEAKER_03] I'm looking for Israel Putnam.
[SPEAKER_01] On whose orders?
[SPEAKER_03] Samuel Adams.
[SPEAKER_01] Follow me.
[SPEAKER_03] This is not Bunker Hill.
[SPEAKER_01] Aye, it's Briggs.
[SPEAKER_01] There's been some disagreement as to where we should encamp.
[SPEAKER_03] Any news from Boston?
[SPEAKER_01] The Tories aren't moving.
[SPEAKER_00] Bunker Hill was one of the first battles of the Revolutionary War.
[SPEAKER_00] Technically, the rebels lost, but it was a pyrrhic victory for the British.
[SPEAKER_00] Let me set this up a bit.
[SPEAKER_00] There were two places where the rebel forces would have been able to mount attacks on British-occupied Boston.
[SPEAKER_00] One was the Charlestown Peninsula to the north.
[SPEAKER_00] The other was the Dorchester Heights to the south.
[SPEAKER_00] When rumors started that the British were going to fortify the hills around Charlestown,
[SPEAKER_00] the rebels decided to act.
[SPEAKER_00] By which I mean do something, not put on a little play.
[SPEAKER_00] On the night of June 16,
[SPEAKER_00] In 1675, troops under the command of William Prescott sneaked onto the peninsula, occupied
[SPEAKER_00] Bunker Hill and built fortifications on Breed's Hill.
[SPEAKER_00] It was a tactically terrible choice, Breed's Hill was easier for enemies to climb, much
[SPEAKER_00] more open to attack and close enough to the bridge.
[SPEAKER_00] British ships in the harbour to come under fire. In fact Prescott's orders were to
[SPEAKER_00] fortify Bunker Hill. It's uncertain why he made the switch. Maybe he had trouble with
[SPEAKER_00] B words, like bunker and breeds. He probably thought he was fighting against the Belgians,
[SPEAKER_00] not the Brits.
[SPEAKER_00] Fortunately for the rebel army, it seemed the British were almost as tactically inept as they were.
[SPEAKER_00] When General Howie landed troops at Moulton's Hill, he waited for reinforcements rather than attention.
[SPEAKER_00] attacking immediately. This gave the rebel forces time to shore up their fortifications.
[SPEAKER_00] When Howie finally did attack, he divided his forces expecting the disorganized rebel
[SPEAKER_00] army to fall before him, which it didn't. In fact, the British forces attacked and retreated
[SPEAKER_00] twice before winning the day. After they received more reinforcements and the rebels were mostly
[SPEAKER_00] out of ammunition the casualty reports are telling 22 b british oh the casualty reports are telling
[SPEAKER_00] 208 the casualty reports are telling 228 british soldiers dead including many of their officers
[SPEAKER_00] and more than 800 injured on the rebel side
[SPEAKER_00] 301 injuries and 140 deaths.
[SPEAKER_00] The Continental Army had shown they could hold their own against the better trained
[SPEAKER_00] British Army and it's hard to say which side was more surprised by that.
[SPEAKER_00] It still surprises me to this day.
[SPEAKER_01] Link Putnam and the others plan to assemble artillery on these hills.
[SPEAKER_01] A good shelling might make the Red Coast rethink their strategy.
[SPEAKER_03] And what of John Pitcon?
[SPEAKER_01] That bastard's the cagiest of the bunch.
[SPEAKER_01] He's appeared time to time to taunt us or send regards by way of cannon fire.
[SPEAKER_01] It's all right, though. He'll have what's coming to him soon enough.
[SPEAKER_01] Put them just up ahead. You can't miss. I don't care much for your
[SPEAKER_00] building on Bunker Hill.
[SPEAKER_01] It's closer to the city, but it is also closer to their artillery.
[SPEAKER_03] I want him to mend no divorce.
[SPEAKER_01] situation we are compelled by reason to employ our own faculties to make a proper determination
[SPEAKER_01] more than i could understand even half that nonsense you just uttered what's not to
[SPEAKER_01] understand i'm trying to ensure our victory what would you know about victory i killed a sea wolf
[SPEAKER_00] in her den armed with only a knife i escaped the kind of indian who sought to burn me alive
[SPEAKER_01] and i was the sole survivor of a shipwreck during the battle of havana
[SPEAKER_01] So you will excuse me if I choose not to talk to you.
[SPEAKER_01] I rest my case.
[SPEAKER_01] I'm going back to Vunker Hill.
[SPEAKER_02] Good day, gentlemen.
[SPEAKER_03] General Puckett.
[SPEAKER_00] What?
[SPEAKER_03] I'm looking for you.
[SPEAKER_03] I was told you would be able to help me find him.
[SPEAKER_01] He's tucked away inside that city with no reason to leave.
[SPEAKER_01] As long as that ship continues its assault, we'll never flush him out.
[SPEAKER_03] But if the ship was silenced?
[SPEAKER_01] All that will do is get off his arse and come forward.
[SPEAKER_03] Well, I'd like to signal my success.
[SPEAKER_01] And I shall speak fondly of you at your funeral.
[SPEAKER_00] Israel Putnam, more affectionately known as Old Put, is something of a legendary figure
[SPEAKER_00] in Revolutionary War history, and possibly its best known soldier, a bit of a folk hero
[SPEAKER_00] if you will.
[SPEAKER_00] Putnam was born in Massachusetts, but later moved to Connecticut to take up farming.
[SPEAKER_00] but later moved to connect i cut to take up farming he's credited with killing the last
[SPEAKER_00] wolf in the colony crawling into its den with a musket a torch and the rope tied around his feet
[SPEAKER_00] so he could be pulled back out he really didn't like wolves oh and i believe i mentioned he was
[SPEAKER_00] a folk hero
[SPEAKER_00] that's only part of it he joined the colon he joined the colonial militia during the french
[SPEAKER_00] and indian war where he learned a reputation for bravery and inspiring the soldiers around him
[SPEAKER_00] he was captured by a group of kenyan kehaka in 1758 and rescued just
[SPEAKER_00] before he was to be executed in 1762 he was shipwrecked in cuba while on a campaign there
[SPEAKER_00] were you'll love this he learned about cigars he became a habitual smoker and discredited
[SPEAKER_00] with introducing the cigar to the colonies after the war ended putnam
[SPEAKER_00] returned to Connecticut, where he was a vocal opponent of the British tax policies that
[SPEAKER_00] led to the revolution.
[SPEAKER_00] He founded the Connecticut branch of the Sons of Liberty.
[SPEAKER_00] When he heard about the Battle of Lexington and Concord, he immediately signed up for
[SPEAKER_00] the Continental Army and was named Brigadier General.
[SPEAKER_00] of the Connecticut forces he commanded troops at Bunker Hill and the near success of the rebels
[SPEAKER_00] were sealed and the near success of the rebels there sealed his reputation Washington had high
[SPEAKER_00] hopes for Putnam as a leader and he was named Washington's second in command in New York
[SPEAKER_00] just prior to the Battle of Long Island. Unfortunately, Putnam was a good soldier
[SPEAKER_00] but a poor tactician. The battle at Long Island was a rout. Putnam fared no
[SPEAKER_00] better at his next post guarding forts on the Hudson River where he was
[SPEAKER_00] outmatched by General Henry Clinton. After that,
[SPEAKER_00] Putnam requested to be assigned to recruitment and Washington agreed. Still, Alicia had cigars.
[SPEAKER_00] Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00] Okay.
[SPEAKER_01] The enemy advances, and you know them.
[SPEAKER_01] They've better numbers, you think.
[SPEAKER_01] Better weapons, better training.
[SPEAKER_01] But I do not, dear.
[SPEAKER_01] And neither should you.
[SPEAKER_01] But what they have in material they last in conviction and care
[SPEAKER_00] but not on
[SPEAKER_01] We have discipline
[SPEAKER_01] We have order and most importantly we have action
[SPEAKER_02] We believe
[SPEAKER_01] though maintain vigilance
[SPEAKER_01] Serve your ammo
[SPEAKER_01] Ensure a proper line of sight and above all else men
[SPEAKER_01] Do not fire on
[SPEAKER_01] until you see the whites of their eyes.
[SPEAKER_01] Well, I'll be damned.
[SPEAKER_01] He did it.
[SPEAKER_03] That was quite a speech.
[SPEAKER_01] Lies, all of it, I'm afraid.
[SPEAKER_01] Still.
[SPEAKER_01] Such words have carried us thus far.
[SPEAKER_03] And what of Pitcairn?
[SPEAKER_01] He's left Boston, as I said he would.
[SPEAKER_01] He's been set up camp on Molten Hill.
[SPEAKER_01] There's no good way to get at him.
[SPEAKER_01] Not with that maelstrom growing down below.
[SPEAKER_01] I suppose you could circle around a bit and wait for us to defend their ranks.
[SPEAKER_03] There is no time. I will have the chance if you're ready to approach.
[SPEAKER_01] That's twice today you've proposed the impossible.
[SPEAKER_03] I see no other choice.
[SPEAKER_01] That's because you're mad as a march hare, son.
[SPEAKER_03] I expect an apology in my return.
[SPEAKER_00] Not asked for.
[SPEAKER_00] A war we did not win.
[SPEAKER_00] And when would we?
[SPEAKER_00] What time has gone for all those down there?
[SPEAKER_01] Blunt and Paget, for me,
[SPEAKER_01] we must ready the next offensive.
[SPEAKER_00] A war which is not worth.
[SPEAKER_00] Don't let them throw us down there.
[SPEAKER_01] Plunder, faggots, fleas.
[SPEAKER_01] We must get this advantage.
[SPEAKER_00] It was a war we could not have fought, a war we could not wage.
[SPEAKER_01] And why would we?
[SPEAKER_00] What's telling our brothers down there?
[SPEAKER_01] Plunder and faggot, for me, is the next offensive.
[SPEAKER_00] Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01] Why? Why did you do this?
[SPEAKER_03] To protect Adams and Hancock and those they serve.
[SPEAKER_03] You meant to kill...
[SPEAKER_01] Kill them? Are you mad? I wanted only to parley. There was so much to discuss, to explain.
[SPEAKER_00] You put an end to that now?
[SPEAKER_03] If you speak true, then I will carry your last words to them.
[SPEAKER_01] They must lay down their arms. They must stop this war.
[SPEAKER_03] Why them and not the Redcoats?
[SPEAKER_01] Do you not think we ask the same question of the British? These things take time.
[SPEAKER_01] Who are the British?
[SPEAKER_01] succeeded had you let me play my part part of the puppeteer for better we hold the strings on another
[SPEAKER_01] no the strings should be severed all should be free and we should live forever on castles in the
[SPEAKER_01] sky you wield your blade like a man but your mouth like a child and more will die now because of that
[SPEAKER_00] How dare you sneak up on me?
[SPEAKER_01] like that watch this girl out there and just help this cap retreat don't ever do that again you hear
[SPEAKER_03] me god damn it general putnam you live the same cannot be said for pitcairn well done i suppose
[SPEAKER_01] but it matters little now i'm ordering a full retreat we have lost too many in exchange for
[SPEAKER_01] too little if the tories want this hill so badly let them have it
[SPEAKER_01] Boston is the true prize
[SPEAKER_03] We have a bigger problem
[SPEAKER_01] What do you mean this can't be right it says they plan to murder Washington
[SPEAKER_03] My enemy is tenacious. When money failed them, they took to force.
[SPEAKER_03] But I have slain Johnson and Pitcairn, both ending their plots.
[SPEAKER_03] George Washington now rallies the colonists, and their march towards freedom begins in earnest.
[SPEAKER_03] Little wonder, then, that the Templars now want him dead.
[SPEAKER_03] They seek to reshape this land into something cold and ordered,
[SPEAKER_03] something soulless, and he is an obstacle.
[SPEAKER_03] I must save him, that his cause can flourish and my people remain safe.
[SPEAKER_03] But the more I prod, the greater the chance I am discovered.
[SPEAKER_03] The Templars believe their men lost the revolution.
[SPEAKER_03] In their eyes, the assassins are gone and scattered, no longer a threat.
[SPEAKER_03] But I fear they will soon discover the truth, and me, I must tread carefully.
[SPEAKER_02] How fair is the hunt, Connor?
[SPEAKER_03] There is progress, but I worry it is not enough.
[SPEAKER_02] You must strike where you need it most.
[SPEAKER_02] What if you pursue Charles Lee and your father?
[SPEAKER_02] What then of Paul Revere and the soldiers at Lexington?
[SPEAKER_03] Soldiers? There were no soldiers.
[SPEAKER_03] soldiers in those towns, only men and women who were forced to defend themselves.
[SPEAKER_02] Is this not why you fight? To protect your people? Your struggle is the colonist's struggle.
[SPEAKER_03] In helping one, you help the other. Encouraging words from one who thought mine a fool's errand.
[SPEAKER_02] Make no mistake, I still do, but I can't help but feel some pride in your success.
[SPEAKER_03] And why should I give you any credit?
[SPEAKER_02] Then don't. But first, return the robe and the blade and the darts and all of the years of training and knowledge I have bestowed upon you.
[SPEAKER_02] Return these and then your words may have some merit.
[SPEAKER_03] Or you could just admit that you are wrong.
[SPEAKER_02] Oh, Charles, please. You've killed two men.
[SPEAKER_02] One more salesman than soldier.
[SPEAKER_02] You're gonna have to try a lot harder than that to impress me.
[SPEAKER_03] Is that so, old man?
[SPEAKER_03] Or perhaps we should step outside.
[SPEAKER_03] I will gladly demonstrate how easily I could trounce...
[SPEAKER_02] Connor, this is Benjamin Talmadge.
[SPEAKER_02] His father was one of us. No need for secrecy.
[SPEAKER_02] I think he has something he wants to say.
[SPEAKER_03] Achilles tells me you've uncovered a plot to murder the Commander-in-Chief.
[SPEAKER_03] Yes, but I have only false starts and dead ends to show for it.
[SPEAKER_03] Not anymore, my friend.
[SPEAKER_03] Thomas Hickey's your man, and I aim to help you catch him.
[SPEAKER_03] How?
[SPEAKER_03] I'll explain on the way.
[SPEAKER_03] You and I are going to New York.