Original subtitles

Ready!

- Pull! - Pull him down.

- Pull! - Pull him down, Mohawks.

Down with the King!

- Let's smash the bastard. - Help me up.

- Come on, help me up. - I've got you. I've got you.

Pull! Pull! Pull!

Come on! To the river!

To the river!

Come on!

Come on, let's burn the bastard!

- Kill the King! - Come on, down to the river!

Come on, let's go. Come on!

Ned, get your sausage, then douse the fire.

Go ahead, Son.

We was bringin' furs down the river.

You could hear the city a mile off.

New York going crazy.

George's head!

How do you like it, lads? Here's his head!

Come on ladies, wanna kiss German George?

You filthy bastard!

I'm no Tory. No, no, no!

No, I can't swim! No!

Read the Declaration of Independence.

Daisy, now don't you go spoiling our lovely day.

They're here.

Good for curling papers.

Go on, scum!

The last thing I need today is a headache.

Daisy McConnahay, don't you dare.

Mama!

- But Daisy... - Mama, I must!

Don't be so pissing melodramatic, Daisy.

Language, Betsy.

Daisy!

Read the Declaration.

- Liberty or death! - No more kings!

Liberty or death! No more kings!

Liberty or death! No more kings!

Liberty or death!

Hey! Hey, Miss New York!

You comin' to join us, then?

Liberty or death! No more kings!

Liberty or death!

No more kings!

Drown the German swine!

Piss on the British!

Let me through.

You there. You there.

The army needs your boat to drive the British out of Brooklyn.

My boat?

No, I can't give it to you.

Citizen. It's your duty.

Your responsibility to give us your boat.

- Come on, Ned, let's go. - Give it to them.

You're a patriot, you give your boat.

- Take the boat! - Take the boat!

Take the boat! Take the boat!

No, get off!

Get off my boat. No.

No, no, no!

Not my personals, you bastard.

Hey, that's mine. Leave me alone.

Here, take this ashore.

Leave my son alone!

- Come on, leave me alone. - Come on, come on!

- Leave my son alone! - Pa!

Ned!

Give the patriot a cheer.

Captain, give this man a note.

Let's go get some others.

Ned. Ned!

- What's your name? - You all right?

- Yeah? - Name?

- Hmm? - Dobb.

Tom Dobb.

Well done.

Take this to Wall Street. And if you want cash for your boat,

show it to the Provisional Commissary.

Who the hell is that?

Joe McConnahay. The sugar king.

You two, guard the boat.

Aye, sir.

Redcoat! Redcoat!

They are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown,

and that all political connection between them...

Here, read it for me, Ned.

"Boat and providence.

"Seventy dollars."

Come on.

We've got no money, Pa.

- No, we ain't. - Where are we gonna sleep?

Wait here.

Wait for me here.

An independent state.

That they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown.

Fellow patriots. There is no cash. It's gone to war.

These notes are issued

by the treasury of the United States, God bless our Congress,

and they'll be redeemed in gold.

Two weeks.

When the war...

When the war is won and the British are driven into the sea,

two weeks and you will be paid.

With interest. That is the word of Mr McConnahay.

A man you know and trust.

He says the notes in your hand are worth more than gold.

They are the future of your country.

Our country.

Two weeks! Now get out!

Five shillings. And that is for each. Five shillings.

On the drum head.

Now, what about you, young man?

- Can I beat the drum? - Can you what?

- Beat the drum. - Can you beat the bloody drum, he says.

Of course, you can.

Come on, step up and get your five shillings.

Right, come on, then.

- Ned, it's your father. - Ned.

What did you do?

What happened?

Five shillings, Pa. It's for you.

And 150 acres of land. When the war is over.

- What did you do, Ned? - I joined up, Pa.

No, you ain't, come on.

Oi, you, where you going with the boy?

Nowhere. That's my son.

Here. Here's your five bob back.

It was a mistake.

Where do you think you're going, mister?

Step back here at once.

What do you think you're doing?

I was in the commissary, I come out, I found out he joined.

- That's right. - But it's a mistake, he ain't joined.

- Is this a mistake? - See, I know it's my fault.

I recognise the boy.

- Show him the roll book. - Top of the list.

I know his name. I'm his pa. I told you he ain't joined.

- Yes, he has. - No, he ain't had my permission.

Makes no difference.

He received the five shillings and he signed his name.

- Right here. - You just cross his name off

with that quill there, see.

Then it never happened. Come on.

Detain that man. Hold him there.

These boys are crooks!

You can't just take him.

They're all somebody's sons, mister.

And they're all willing to shed their blood fighting tyranny.

- That's right. - Ask your boy. Whose war?

All right, let's move out.

- No. - Stay down!

- Come, let's move it. - It ain't his war!

Let's get it moving!

You can't force him in.

Halt, halt, halt, Sergeant.

Come now, you've got to be a family man.

I've had three kids, one wife dead. That's all I got living now.

Come on, you can't take him away.

Sons go to war because fathers don't.

You want to see your son again? Then sign the roll book.

Pa!

Hold him! If you do that once more I'll run you through.

So help me!

Now if you want to see your son, you'll sign the book.

That's right, sign up. Four in my family signed up.

Sign the book here.

You're a bastard.

Hold him!

Sign on the line.

You're a bastard.

And you watch your language too, mister.

Good.

Hey, Mr Dobbs. Here's your five shillings.

You are now a member of the United States Army.

Now, there, you join them over there.

One piece of dry fish. Keep it dry, now. Keep it dry.

Liberty!

Move to the back of the boat!

There's freedom in your muskets, boys.

Liberty!

Liberty!

We love you!

Oarsmen. Push us out.

Liberty or death!

Goodbye.

Liberty or death!

Victory!

Godspeed!

Liberty!

Freedom!

We love you!

Listen good to me now.

When we get to where we're going,

if something should happen to me, if we get separated,

you stick by the officers. You hear?

They never risk hurt. You stick close to the officers.

And you look out for yourself first. You hear?

This is the note, remember? They gave us for the boat.

You keep it. Go ahead. Put it in your shoe.

Be brave, boys. We fight for a true and just cause.

God will be with us.

The British are coming!

Get out of New York!

Washington's words! Read George Washington's words!

The British are coming. Get out of New York!

Daisy! Daisy McConnahay! If you go out there, you're a fool.

Daisy, take me with you!

Mama told us we shouldn't go outside.

Here, Daisy. Daisy, what are you getting up to now?

What is all this?

You're not going out into that street again today.

Don't you know what's happened out there?

I know very well what's happening out there.

There's madness out there, Daisy, madness.

Daisy, I forbid you to leave this house.

Mama, I'm sorry.

Serves you right if you get yourself raped.

Oh! Don't be so vulgar, Betsy.

I'll help hold him.

Doctor Sloan?

Doctor Sloan?

What in blazes are you doing here, Miss McConnahay?

This is no place for you. Go home to your mother and sisters.

I brought some food.

Well give it out and you go home, Daisy.

Give me something for a tourniquet here.

Now hold it, girl.

You got eats?

Yeah.

You fought.

- Here. - Thanks.

You fought in the battle. It must have been terrible.

God, you're cut.

Wait.

Let me help you. Lie back.

What was it like out there?

Could you tell me?

- The fight? - Yeah.

You want to know that?

- Why do you want to know that? - Please.

It was just over there.

In the...

In the marshes.

Under the Brooklyn Heights.

It was dawn.

We was waiting.

They were shooting.

Then men just start falling all around us.

From the gunfire.

You saw the British?

- We never saw no one. - Nothing.

They used chain.

From the cannon, they shot chain and grape.

Cut men down.

Cut them in half.

It was my first battle.

You're so brave.

Keep your head down now.

Get some sleep, son.

You fought for a cause.

You fought for our freedom.

Let's plough along, move.

- On your feet! - Move, I said.

How many more times should we tell you?

Come on lads, face back there.

Come along!

Form up and march, you laggards.

Form up! Form up!

Come on, form up.

Come on, get up.

Move along, back to the line.

Evacuate, he says.

And I think Washington's finished. His army's beat.

They're gonna run his ass out of Manhattan.

Their Lordships will take over New York again.

And you know what that means.

It means that we are going to have 15,000 hungry new mouths to feed.

And they'll take god damn anything we care to hand 'em.

You can dump your flour and corn, them maggoty pork and beans.

They'll want cod, rum, sugar.

Shh.

Now, we may have to up the prices a little,

but it's a wonderful opportunity to do something for our city.

Papa.

Daisy, what the hell are you doing here?

You must help the soldiers, Papa.

I've seen them out there. On the field.

There's so many wounded.

They fought and suffered for you.

And all you can do is draw up ways to feed the enemy.

Don't you have any pity in you?

Damn it, Miss McConnahay, this is your father you're talking to.

Why do you allow it, sir?

Allow it? I love it!

This is Daisy McConnahay talking. My daughter.

My girl.

Yeah, sure, when you're young, it takes a cause

to find any sense in this world at all.

Don't treat me like a child, Papa.

I wouldn't do that Daisy, not to you.

I know you too well.

Then give out some food.

You feed them.

Or you'll be damned.

- Mr Corty. - Sir.

How much salt fish do we have in the warehouse?

250 barrels, sir. I have a note of it here.

Then set aside 50 barrels for our boys returning from the war.

Yes, sir.

Oh, Daisy, Daisy, Daisy.

Ah, you see, girl,

it doesn't matter a damn who deserves to win.

It's who does win. That's what's important.

Now, you remember that the next time you're out there screaming liberty.

Hmm? Come on, now.

Come on.

Go home now.

Thank you.

- Mr Corty. - Sir.

Make that 10 barrels.

Get to the walls! Get to your positions!

Come on, boys, God's on our side.

Come on, son. Stay close to me, son.

Get to the walls. Get to your positions.

Amen.

Aim for the officers!

Be brave, men. They're nothing but bloody animals.

Afraid as children.

Major?

Ready, my lord.

For King and country.

Hear me. God is with you.

Be brave.

You British soldiers are the best bloody regiment in the world.

Extend the range, Captain.

Forward march!

Hold your fire.

Get ready, boys, get to your positions!

See?

On my command, fire!

Regiment!

Halt!

Get ready.

Front leg, fire!

Second leg, fire!

Third leg, fire!

Back to the second line!

Remember you're Americans!

Come back! Stand and fight!

Hold your ground!

Order, arms!

Ready bayonets!

Quick march!

Fall back, men!

Run with them. Come on, Ned.

Ned!

Kill him!

Charge!

Run! Run for your lives!

Ned, back up.

Pa!

Pa!

Ned!

Jump!

Lousy redcoats!

Regiment!

Move forward!

The army was going north.

Let them go.

We've got to cut around the British and meet up.

No, we ain't, Ned.

We're going home.

It's over for us.

This war is over for us.

Come on.

Wait for me, Billy. Wait!

What are we gonna do, Pa?

I don't know, son.

Go back to New York.

Work in the rope factory.

Heads up, men.

Watch out for trouble.

Oi, come here you little rat.

- Are they the prisoners, Mum? - Yeah, poor things.

We're with you lads, don't worry.

Yeah, the Mohawks are with you.

Yeah, we're with you.

Here, have a drink.

It's Merle, the drummer. He hasn't seen us.

Merle.

Ned.

Here, get back in line there.

This can't change anything.

All right. Move! Move! Move!

Right, get him in line.

Be careful.

Declaration.

Although the Congress, whom the misguided Americans

suffer to direct their opposition,

to a re-establishment of the constitutional government

of these provinces...

No! Stay there, lad.

Merle, it's me.

Ned, you got away.

Shut your corn hole, boy. No talking.

Where are your glorious rebels now, Daisy?

Run off like skunks.

Oh, look, look at Father with the General.

Do you think we'll meet him?

Him and the cream of the British Army, my dear.

They'll be drooling at our feet.

God, you disgust me.

The King, being most graciously disposed

to direct a revision of such of his royal instructions

as may be construed today and in proper restraint

upon the freedom of legislation in any of his colonies

and to concur in the revisal of all acts

by which his subjects there may think themselves aggrieved.

It is recommended that the inhabitants at large

reflect seriously upon their present conditions

and their expectations...

You ran?

We all ran. Everybody ran.

You ran!

It was run or get caught, so I ran.

I thought you might have stood your ground, Mr Dobb.

It ain't my fight.

It ain't my fight.

Gotta be careful.

Come here you. Got anything?

- Watch it, Ned. Don't catch their eye. - Yes, Pa.

Just keep going. Just keep going.

Hello, Ned.

Hello, Dick.

So, you went to war!

Yeah.

Daisy.

My God, Mama, what's going on here?

Now, Daisy, before you start. Don't.

I haven't the patience and I haven't the time.

Now, here, take this. This is you.

Now, go and make yourself presentable.

Tonight is a very special occasion.

Chance of a lifetime for your sisters, so don't you go spoiling it. Here.

What are those cases of luggage?

Ah, now those belong to two young officers.

The General has asked us to billet.

Lord Hampton and Lord Darling.

Nobility, Daisy.

And both of them unmarried.

Lord Hampton is the nephew of Poppy Hessop,

who I'm told stands very close to the Queen's chamber.

Yeah, holding the pot, no doubt.

I'll not say any more, Daisy.

We all know your views on the subject.

But tonight, please keep them to yourself.

Now, here's your dress.

Go and put it on and try just for once

to behave like a respectable member of this family.

Oh, Betsy.

And while you're up there, you can clear your room of all that

poxy rebel patriot stuff.

As you wish.

♪ If buttercups burst after the bee

♪ If boats were on land churches on sea

♪ If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows

♪ And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse

♪ If the mamas sold their babies

♪ To the gypsies for half a crown

♪ If summer was spring and the other way 'round

♪ Then all the world would be upside down

Sorry to interrupt.

♪ If nightingales sang when it was morn...

Betsy, I'm sure you don't mind sharing him.

Charming little girls.

Oh, what are you doing?

Oh, why don't you give me one?

You bitch!

Bloody Yankee bitch!

Your daughter's are whores, madam!

All of them! Whores!

- Henry. - Dear God.

Bastards!

They let the English swine in my room!

You Brits, you murderers, you...

I hate you. I hate you.

Mama, papa...

MRS McCONNAHAY: Daisy!

There!

Well, I hope you're proud of yourself.

Did you hear what he called you?

Yankee bitch.

Whore.

Whatever you may think, Daisy, we have always loved you.

Your father and I.

We had such hopes for you.

And you have never before given me cause to feel ashamed of you.

That's not fair.

That's not fair.

That's not fair.

After tonight...

You know where we stand, Daisy.

You cannot belong to this family and fight on the other side.

I know that.

You make up your mind.

I have.

Come on!

Here! Put that pig down.

Come back here!

Give me the gun. I'll shoot the pig.

I got a grenade.

Up! Up! Up!

Bastards!

Come on, Mohawks. Run!

Come on, let's get out of here.

I stole a pig.

Good. We eat.

Got away.

I fumbled it.

You fumbled it?

Dick stole a grenade for us Mohawks so we can blow a hole

in the Sergeants' mess.

You ain't blowing nothing, you ain't no Mohawk.

Well, I am now, Pa.

They just elected me to the gang.

What are you talking about? Do you wanna get killed?

No, I ain't blowing no grenade.

Dick's blowing the grenade.

Then all of us are gonna go in there after and get all of the eats.

What eats? What eats?

Do you eat, Ned?

I work for your eats.

It's not for me, Pa. It's for Merle and them.

I don't care who it's for. You ain't no Mohawk.

And you ain't blowing no grenade, you hear?

- Oh, I'm going. - No, wait. You ain't going nowhere.

- I'll go where I want. - No, you stay in here.

Ned, listen. You seen them bodies floating in the river?

You seen them?

What are they?

They're just boys like you.

That's all they are. Is that what you want?

In here!

- Stand clear! - Move.

Well, well, we've got ourselves a likely looking candidate.

Yes. You.

Are you fit?

Well, you look fit.

Feel fit. Whoa-ho.

What about legs?

Can he move his legs, Corporal?

Ask him to move his legs.

Get them up! Get them up! Get your legs up.

On the spot. Running on the spot.

Up! Up! Up! Up!

Up! Up! Up! Up!

Get them arms up. Legs up!

Up! Up! Up! Up!

Up! Up! Up! Up! Up! Up!

All right, all right. That'll do.

You and Clowski get to drag the guy.

What are you gawking at, you lot, eh?

This, you dumb Yankees, is the guy.

And it's for the officers.

On account they want a bloody fox hunt

before they ride off to their bloody war.

But there aren't any foxes in this part of the world.

I dare say you ate them all.

So, these two get to drag the hunt,

using this ropy looking effigy of dear, old Georgie Washington there.

But if you've got any ideas about running off, forget them,

because when we catch up with you, and we will,

we'll hang you.

Understood?

Right, Corporal. Bring them on.

Right. The pay's two coppers.

One now, one when you're finished, if dogs don't eat you.

Now come on over there. I want another man on his pump now. Move!

Get us a sausage.

No. I won't get you no sausage. Get your own.

You toadied to these bugs like they was tin Jesus.

It's just to keep you safe.

Me, Pa? I can watch out for myself.

It's you who wants to keep low.

That ain't right to say to me, Ned.

Ain't me hiding, it was you who run and me you dragged.

Ned. Ned! Ned!

Take care of yourself, Pa.

Stick with the officers, you won't risk getting hurt.

Oi! Away from that door! Come here!

Where do you think you're going, eh?

Where do you think you're going, eh? Where do you think you're going?

Say something?

Did you say something?

Talking back to an officer?

I could charge you for that.

Come. Bring him out. On your knees. Out!

Move. Get up. Fall in. Move it.

Let's get this pair down to the field.

Come on, come on. Move along.

Get out of here!

- Are these the men, Sergeant Major? - Yes, sir.

I see. Well, get them scented up.

You heard what the Captain said, scent them up.

Now, look, you're being paid handsomely for this

and we want some good sport, so see you earn your money.

Right, Sergeant Major.

- Run them bloody off. - Very good, sir.

Here's your pass. Get you through the lines.

- Off you go, son. - All right, away you go.

Come on, move, move, move it.

Move! Move it along.

Give them a good start, master.

Hold back, hold back.

Ten sovereigns the big one doesn't last the course.

It's the little man you have to watch out for.

No more!

It's not far. It's not far.

No!

The water's there!

We got to get the water on it.

- It's not far. - No water.

It's right there.

Idiot. Idiot.

You got the scent on you.

- I don't care. - They're gonna run you down.

- You got the scent on you. - I don't care.

Have they lost the beggar?

They've found them!

After them!

Divide and rule, eh?

What?

Now let's get the one running with the fox.

Call off the dogs.

Good heavens, it's not! It can't be.

Oh look! It's poor, old Georgie Washington.

Poor old chap seems to have run out of puff.

Developing a soft spot for him, are we?

I think we'll have to put him out of his misery.

So ends the American dream, eh? What?

Come on, tally-ho.

"valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil

"for thou art with me,

"thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies,

"thou annointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over.

"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life

"and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."

Amen.

They're all gone now, Bill.

Well, they're sleeping Ben.

Just sleeping.

Put to bed with metal.

Tucked in with a spade.

Is it me going next?

No, you has drummers' luck.

- Like you? - Eh, like him.

You can't fight a war without drummer boys, son.

Now we've got some more.

Ben!

Get on your feet, you rebel scum.

The British bugs is marching North.

Washington's whipped. A lot of patriots dead.

You been licking molasses, Merle?

I got splinters in my tongue.

- You bring your sticks? - Yeah.

- I've invented a new beat. - Hmm.

Ned. Stop. Stop.

You're good, son.

I'll get you a drum of your own.

Cross me and I'll pop out your glim.

Corporal.

Here.

Come on, lad, on your feet.

You just got lucky.

No.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on, me laddie.

Get ready!

Regiment!

Please let me through.

I beg of you.

Get back! Come on.

Here, get back. Shut up, woman.

Tom!

Have you seen Tom Dobb?

Does Tom Dobb work here?

I want five, I want five. Give me five, give me five.

Five, five.

Come on now. Five, five, give us five.

Four, four, four. I want four. I want four.

I want four. You betting, lady?

- No. - It's Daisy.

- What! - In there.

- Where? - In there.

All right, let them go!

One, two, three!

Tom.

Tom.

It's your son.

They took your son.

I saw him taken this afternoon by the British.

Goodness.

They've marched north.

Oh, Tom.

Tom, what are you doing?

Going to get a boat.

But you got no weapon.

- Tom. - Thank you for coming to me.

We could... We could have spoke.

God save you, Tom and Ned.

Sergeant Major!

His Lordship wants a boy

to polish his boots.

Come on in.

Go on, go on.

Hello, Ben.

Ah, a new boy.

Hmm, well...

You.

Come.

You bugger!

Sergeant Major!

Sir.

The gunner's daughter.

Sir.

Here.

You others can witness this.

Boys.

Now, me little fish.

See what's come to us.

See what you've done.

Raise it up.

Hold him steady.

You let him alone!

Follow him.

Ben! Go to bed.

Come on, lay a card. What you got?

Ned, Ned, it's me.

Oh, Ned.

Oh, Ned.

Oh, God, what have they done to you?

Come on. You're safe now, son.

I'll take care of you now, son.

I'll cut you free. I'll cut you free.

Take Merle, Pa.

He helped me. Please.

Take Merle.

Can you walk?

Good.

I've got you, Ned.

- Let me take you. - Please, take Merle.

He tried to help.

They hurt, Pa.

I know, son. I know.

I've got you.

It's all right.

I've got you.

Ben!

Ben!

Ben!

Where did they go, son?

You know, Ben.

Now, where did they go?

They was tooken, Bill.

Well, who took 'em?

It was the man who came and took 'em.

You made no alarm?

I didn't mean to.

I didn't mean to.

I thought you liked him better than me.

Ben, Ben, you'll always be dear to me, Ben.

Now, go on.

- Pike! - Sir.

Me knife.

Comprenez?

Give it to who brings back me boys.

Now, go on.

Sir.

Poor Ned.

Here.

You gotta keep awake, son.

Wait!

You go.

Tom, sir.

American.

I hate Les Anglais

I hate Iroquois.

They kill Hurons.

My father's from Français.

My ma, she was Huron.

The man who will kill my enemy

is my friend.

Hold on.

Just hold on.

Pa.

I'm here, Ned.

I got you. I got you.

Got a terrible dream.

I'm drowning, Pa.

No, no, no, you ain't.

No, you ain't. Now, here.

Hold my hand.

You hold my hand like the rope.

I won't let you sink.

I won't let you sink.

- You hear me talking, Ned? - Yeah.

Come on, come on, I'm going to talk to you now.

I'm going to tell you... Tell you about your ma.

Now, you remember your ma?

Yeah. You tell me about her.

Come on, you just tell me what you remember.

- The way she smelt. - Yeah.

- All warm. - Yeah.

How she rocked me.

Oh, she loved you, Ned.

- She loved you, too, Pa. - Oh, yeah.

- She died. - Yeah.

It was fever that took her, Ned.

It took everyone. Man, wife, the Indians. By the thousands.

And your sister, Nell, and James, your brother.

And little baby Ann. Remember Ann, Ned?

Yes, Pa.

It's fine. It's all right.

Hold. Hold.

Ned. Hold on.

Pa!

Hold on.

I'm over here. I'm with you.

I'm with you, Son.

I'm with you, son.

Bite on me. Ned, bite on me.

That's it. They're finished.

That's a boy. That's my boy.

- Pa? - Yeah?

You saved me, Pa.

- Pa. - Yes.

I thought you was a coward.

You did, Ned. You thought...

- But you ain't a coward. - No, I ain't.

I was, Ned.

I was.

Was me who got you in this mess.

What I do that for?

- Pa. - Wasn't even you really.

- It was just me. - Pa.

You're my son. That's all I got.

- Pa. - Yeah.

- I'm drowning, Pa. - No.

- Pa... - No, no, no.

No, no, no. No, don't sink. Don't fall on me.

Don't drown, Ned. No, damn you, Ned.

Damn you, Ned. No! No!

Pa.

God, can't you hear me?

I'll rock you. I'll rock you.

Like when you was my baby.

Pa.

It's okay, Ned. It's all okay now.

- Come on, Ned. - Are we on the river?

No, Ned, no.

I can feel it moving.

No, it's just me rocking you.

I've been rocking you, just rocking you,

back and forth like when you was my little baby.

Where are we going, Pa?

We're going...

Somewhere.

Somewhere new.

Well, what's it like?

Oh, I don't know. It's like nowhere else.

Please tell me, pa.

I'll tell you.

We're gonna find us a place

where there ain't no one to bow down to.

Where there ain't no lord or lady better than you.

Where you can say what you like

and climb as high as you want.

And nobody gonna treat no one like a dog in the dirt.

I look around me, Ned and I see all kinds of people.

Men, women,

and they've got families

and they all stay together like brothers and sisters.

I know we'll make a place for ourselves.

We'll make a place where our babies can sleep safe through the night.

We're there, Pa?

We're almost there, Ned.

You'll come through, Ned.

You'll come through.

It took Ned six months to heal.

But he grew strong again.

And when the time was right,

we came down from the mountain and joined the fight.

Yah!

Cuffy, the flag!

- Hold! - Whoa!

Where's your tally?

Whoa, whoa!

- Here. - All right.

Thank you.

All right, let's go. Go on.

Come on, go.

Move on, boys.

Wait for me! I'm coming to get some!

Hey, wait for me!

Hello, there.

Oh, Sergeant.

You got any tobacco?

Yeah, I've got some tobacco.

Come on, keep on moving.

Hey.

Come on, move on, move on. Come on up.

What else you bring?

Valley food's arrived!

- We've got, uh... - Help me get it unloaded.

Two pigs, three sheep, three barrels of fish.

As much cheese as we could lay hands on.

There's also sour grass, camomile and mistletoe for the medicine chest.

Captain Cray, here's the team of wagons, sir.

Is there anything I can do to help, nurse?

I'll need you and your carts.

I've got sick men to be taken to the hospital at Yellow Springs.

- Sergeant. - Yes, ma'am.

These men are dying.

That's why they must go.

The General don't want no man dying at Valley Forge.

Get them loaded now, Sergeant.

Yes, sir.

Corporal, get the stretcher over here!

Get this man bandaged because I want him ready to move!

Those men that are able to be moved,

I want them all in this wagon...

I know you.

Miss New York.

You wouldn't come to war.

Well, I've come now.

So you have.

I remember you.

You had a fellow.

Ben was killed at Trenton.

Is that his son?

Yes.

And I'm heavy with Jack's now.

Daisy?

Daisy.

It's me, Ned.

Ned.

Oh, Ned.

God, you're safe.

God, you've grown, look at you.

Oh my God.

Look at you, you've got a rifle.

Yeah.

We're scouts now.

- Scouts? - Mmm.

Where's your dad, Ned?

Over in the hut.

One, two, one, two. One, two, one, two, one, two...

Pa, look who's here.

Oh.

God, I prayed for you, Tom.

I prayed for you so much.

You got thin.

Soldier's life.

Come. Boy, you're cold.

Ain't got much.

Some pumpkin soup.

Ain't much in it.

But it's warm.

Here.

I got salt.

- You've got salt? - Yeah.

Here.

That's good.

Sit. Here.

Oh, your feet must be ice.

Yeah, they are.

Here.

- Come here. - You're an Indian now, huh?

I'm a scout,

with the army.

Oh.

Here.

God, I never thought I'd see you again.

Tell me, Daisy.

What happened to you?

Well, Cuffy and I, we left New York and we fled to Philadelphia.

Where there were partisans, and we joined them

and we smuggled food, boots,

muskets, flints.

And I learned how to sail.

- Did you? - Yeah, on the Chesapeake.

I can see you're wearing a captain's coat.

Mmm.

It's Captain Stanhope's, he gave it to me.

Look at my hands.

- See how rough they got? - Oh, yeah.

Look at the calluses on them.

It's from the ropes.

It's from sailing.

- They're like mine. - Yeah.

I can sail anywhere with you now, Tom.

Could you, Daisy?

Yes, I could.

There's some more if you want it.

Pa, the wagon's coming!

You'll be alright at Yellow Springs. I'll wait till you get back.

I'll see you when you get back.

Got the wagon ready!

Whoa!

I'll see your way, Tom.

I hope.

Cuffy, this is Tom.

Tom, this is Cuffy.

- Pleased to meet you. - Mr Tom.

Wait, I got something for you.

I'm Bella.

My father is Israel Davis, the gunner.

I'm staying here with him.

Pleased to meet you. I'm Ned.

Pleased to meet you, Ned.

- Let's keep you warm. - Oh, thank you, Tom.

- Ned, uh, get my stuff. - Yeah, just a moment, Pa.

- Come on. - You've got a limp.

Oh, it's nothing.

Were you wounded?

I was captured but my pa saved me.

You're going back to Philadelphia after you take them to the hospital?

I don't know.

I go where they tell me.

Where are you gonna be?

I don't know.

I'm...

Well, I'll be scouting here all winter.

After that I don't know.

Indians wanna go back to their families.

Me, I don't know.

You name your horses yet, Daisy?

Yeah, this is Fast and this is Faster.

Daisy.

Daisy!

Daisy!

You can't come!

Daisy!

- What? - The guy who gave you the coat...

The Captain...

He the one learned you to sail?

Yes, he did.

- He's a good sailor? - Yes, he is.

He's in Philadelphia now?

No.

That's as far as you go, Scout.

You going to marry him?

No!

Only you, Tom Dobb. Only you.

Danger, danger!

Faster, they're gaining on us!

They're coming for you! Faster!

Go!

Daisy McConnahay, you traitorous bitch.

Here's the news!

The British have quit Philadelphia and the French have joined our cause.

The war will be over in two weeks.

Vive la France, Vive Lafayette!

He says there's records on everyone in here.

Those dead, those missing.

Pa, I'll wait over here for you, all right?

I see. All right, thank you.

Uh, I'm looking for someone.

Was wounded at Valley Forge or killed, I don't know.

Uh, she was headed this way so I thought you might have a record of her.

Name, Daisy McConnahay.

Well, uh, this is the book. That mark there, that means dead.

I don't read.

I don't read.

- What's the name again? - Daisy McConnahay.

Oh, hello.

What do you think?

- Of what? - The British.

They made a terrible mess of this place.

Congress can't meet unless I set things aright.

Congress?

I heard they fight a lot.

I don't... I don't know.

- Not listed there? - No.

Mr Rittenhouse made it.

This is the Earth and that's the moon.

- How far is it? - 200,000 miles.

Don't seem that far.

How do you know for sure?

I went to Harvard.

See?

See how the planets turn?

Each makes its own revolution around the sun.

See, Mr Jefferson says that that's the idea of America.

A revolution.

A new turn.

- Anything? - Ain't no record.

Long live Washington!

Long live Washington!

Long live Washington!

They say we're going north to chase the British into the sea.

War will be over in two weeks.

About time! I got a bellyful of this fight.

I haven't had a bellyful in a month.

Good-bye! Good-bye, sweetheart!

Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!

Freedom! Freedom!

God be with you.

Thank you, Papa.

God bless you, Ned.

Now, go back to your guns, Israel Davis.

Shalom.

Thanks, Pa.

- Thank you, sir. - God bless you.

♪ We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again

♪ We'll bust their cannon And batter their gun

♪ They march on our house to the beat of the drum

♪ But through all the clamour and smoke of the fight

♪ Miss Liberty's torch burning red, fast and bright

♪ Brave and free are our hearts Brave and true are our men...

Come on! Get the British bastards out of here.

Danger!

Two stretches to the right, Pa.

Two stretches to the right.

You seen him?

Got him.

Where are you going to take him?

Shoulder.

That's a good shot.

I can't see for the smoke.

Pa! Pa, it's him!

Look down there, the post on the end.

It's that English bastard.

Oh, yeah.

I see him, Ned.

I see him.

What's he doing?

He's going to the beach.

He's coming for our spotter.

- Ned, Ned, are you all right? - I'll be back soon!

It's all clear, Pa. They're all down.

lie down in green pastures.

Don't leave me, son.

- He leadeth me beside the still waters. - Dead...

And restoreth my soul.

Fear not, son. Don't leave me.

You got drummer's luck. Don't leave me.

Be brave, son. Be brave.

He leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul,

He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness

for His name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil,

for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

I've got him dead, Pa.

You do, Ned.

Don't leave me, son.

Don't leave me.

No.

I ain't going to do it.

all the days of my life,

and I will dwell in the house of the Lord

forever and ever.

Hold easy, me lad.

We'd best go home.

Come on, lad. Come along, son.

Come on. Up, up. Go on.

♪ The drummer boy to the war is gone

♪ In the ranks of death you'll find him

♪ Our cause has triumphed

♪ And our freedom's won

♪ But a brave, young life is left behind him

♪ But where

♪ Where is my drummer gone?

♪ The boy who took my heart to war

♪ At last, his body in a grave is laid

♪ And his soul to heaven

♪ I must leave now ♪

Two for you.

Twenty dollars. That's it. Right, next.

Come on, come on, don't be all day, mister.

Boats and providence, 1776.

Well, you've had this a long time, haven't you?

Right, ten, twenty, thirty.

Forty, that's it.

- Come on, next. - Seven.

Wait, wait, where's the rest?

- What rest, mister? - Seventy dollars.

They've been devalued.

That's all them old continentals is worth now.

You take it or leave it.

Then move along, you're holding up the queue.

- Don't be pushing me. - I'm not pushing. I'm very busy now.

What happened to the 150 acres?

What you complaining about, mister?

I'm not complaining. I'm asking a question.

What happened to the 150 acres I was promised?

Listen, you've got two arms and two legs and two eyes, haven't you?

Now, move on, I'm very busy.

- Right. - I told you to keep your hands off me.

- You're holding up the line, mister. - I'm asking you a question.

- You're holding up the line. - I'm asking you a question.

- What is it? - What happened

to the 150 acres of land I was promised?

It was sold by Congress to speculators to pay for the war debt!

- All right? Now, move it. - I'm the bloody war debt.

- Are you? - Yeah.

This chit here, that's a bloody war debt.

We all are bloody war debts.

So, why don't you go to Congress...

Don't tell me. You go to Congress, all of you, and you tell them.

No, I'll tell you because you're standing here.

I'm not interested in talking to you. Come on, next.

Where's this Congress you're talking about?

Congress is coming here.

- Where? - You go and tell them.

- Where they coming? - They're on their way.

When?

They're coming, damn you. I told you they're coming.

Damn you.

Go on, get out.

All these men here we all fought for something and we got it.

- What, you think I didn't fight? - You take it from us

- and we're gonna fight again. - I'm taking nothing from you.

You open your mouth to Congress.

That's where your mouth belongs. Not to me.

My mouth belongs anywhere I put it.

Next!

Twenty dollars.

Did you get the money?

Forty dollars. That's it.

- That's all? - That's all they're worth.

And the 150 acres?

It's gone to the speculators.

All of it?

Where does that leave us?

You take the Hudson to the Mohawk trail.

Then up as far as she goes.

Tonti says there's farmland out west for the taking.

You go settle like your dreams.

So, what, you ain't coming?

I can't, Ned.

I should stay here.

It's good for me here.

Things for me.

I can learn to read.

This is what I want, Ned.

It's what I want.

I'm gonna miss you, Pa.

I'm gonna miss you bad.

Here, take this.

- I don't need it all. - Oh, you do.

Bella's gonna need more than one skinny cow.

Take care.

God be with you.

- Don't forget no good tunes. - I won't, Tom.

Goodbye, Tom.

Whoa!

You name your kids for your old friends.

I'll make you proud, Pa.

- You tell them about me. - I will.

How we fought.

I will, Pa.

Tell them how far we've come.

Cuffy. Cuffy!

Law and order! All my fellow New Yorkers...

Cuffy! Cuffy!

And your liberty!

Let us herald a new nation together in mutual trust.

Vote for Corty!

- Get out of here. - No Indians!

What about the wounded?

White man's country!

- Get out of here, you Negro! - We want freedom, too!

Hey, watch your step there, friend.

How about the money?

I thought everything was free today.

Whoa, Tom Dobb! You're all right!

Welcome back to New York.

We're gonna find us a place

where there ain't no one to bow down to.

Where there ain't no lord or lady better than you.

Where you can say what you like.

And climb as high as you want.

And there ain't nobody gonna treat no one like a dog in the dirt.

I look around me, Ned,

and I see all kinds of people.

Men and women,

and they've got families like mine.

And we stand together.

Like brothers and sisters.

And we make for ourselves.

We make a place

where our babies can sleep safe through the night.