Bring a torch and let is a fell.

Bring a torch, the hurry and run.

It is Jesus the thought of the village.

Christ is born and there it's calling.

I'm Patrick K. O'Donnell and I'm hosting America's Christmas combat history of Christmas.

And we're going gonna go back in time

to our most important Christmas,

the Christmas of 1776,

where all could have been lost, but all was won,

in a series of crucial victories,

10 crucial Js that will change the course of history.

Let's go back first to the summer of 1776, the Battle of Brooklyn, the Battle of Long Island,

where a massive British force, most of the entire British Army and Navy congregate in New York, over 35,000, along with their German allies, to crush the nascent United States, which is now only about a month, a little more than a month old after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

This wasn't a situation of negotiation.

It was a situation of we were going to crush the Americans, as they had done in all the

other empire's history.

They had always won any kind of rebellion or revolution.

And they planned, the British Empire had planned to do it again and a massive

important hub was New York City because of its strategic location and its ability to

to make to sally forth from different parts to the various parts of the colony it was a

look one of the largest cities in the colonies of the

time, and the British rolled up their entire fleet, or two-thirds of their fleet, and much of

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