The Patriot Battle of Guilford Courthouse

[MrCouchmen]

Thats it boys!!Give them the pointy ends!!

[slapnthface]

those redcoats arent the right height

[Photonzos]

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

Why did the revolution end up going so wrong?

U S America ended up exchanging one kind of royalty for another. pwned by the stupor rich.

[Photonzos]

the music is completely annoying

[SnakeFang217]

I rather face my enemy face to face and piss my pants in fear, than piss my pants in fear and shot mysteriously out of nowhere.

[slapnthface]

its also funny because that black man is going to be persecuted for another 100 years

[Luminahawke]

@slapnthface It was most likely because the British battle line had more black men, quite a few more in that shoot out in this movie.

[slapnthface]

American sensationalism is so funny

[Oesterreich1156]

americans are englishmen.

[mavisformula]

One of the few occasions where the Americans and British forces engaged in a 'parade ground style' battle. It was brilliantly done. If the British hadn't charged but consolidated their gains and moved their artillery forward and used cavalry on the flanks they could have devastated the Americans. But you could say ifs and buts about any battle like this. The actors did this battle proud though.

[Scottishtroop87]

Love the americans for this

[BettorOffSingle]

One of Heath ledger's great early-career performances. Gabriel was "the" patriot in many ways, and he pretty much stole the film. The woman who played Anee had been on MTV's Undressed!

[andrei97t]

which pixel is the english army?

[tommypolo2]

Mel Gibson is the Patriot

Amen

[sooooobadatthis]

Strange, but this was a British victory, a Pyrhic one, but considering the forces a pretty good one nonetheless. If Cornwallis had retreated back to Camden instead of heading to Wilmington, there never would have been a Yorktown.

[derkommissar1917]

@sooooobadatthis The setting is Guilford, but the events of the battle are those of the earlier Battle of Cowpens. At Cowpens, the British did suffer a devastating defeat like this, although it was under Tarleton's command, rather than Cornwallis himself.

[ThePimpycat]

This is a great movie and a great battle scene, but it seems that their are a trememdous amount of casulties, but achaly in the actual battle their were less then 200

[legokid918]

one of the best battles in a movie ever

[boringsermonify]

In watching this episode of "Cannon Bowling for Shinbones", I notice that America won its independence under the astute leadership of a drunken Australian anti-Semite.

Thank goodness for Hollywood or the world would never know!

[Justanotherconsumer]

Wilhelm scream @4:17?

[Howitzas]

"Artillery concentrate on the center. Drive them back".

*Cannon shells explode all over the fucking place*

[jackram2h2]

Very inspiring. This is one of my all time favorite movies. The scene where Mel Gibson takes the flag ans charges the hill makes my knees week. God Bless America.

[skillfulsnipes]

@jackram2h2 Yep, I love it when the racist, antisemitic, homophobic, and misogynistic actor takes the American Flag and stands for equality. But then again, such views weren't different than most Americans during that time.

[jackram2h2]

@skillfulsnipes Actually my Witless wonder, when he took the American Flag he was standing for Freedom, not equality. Then again you probably wouldn't know the difference. In addition you claim most ''Americans'' at the time held the views of being a racist, homophobic, antisemitic, and misogynistic. Funny how you call them ''Americans'' even though there was no such thing as America during this time period. That's okay though, you're clearly nothing more than an uneducated and misguided soul.

[skillfulsnipes]

@jackram2h2 Tis true i am, thank you for enlightening me. I just wanted to point out how the movie industries picks the wrong people for a role. Sure his personal life doesn't affect his character, although I believe we should pick actors with better morals. My comment wasn't so against America or its founding, just the actor.

[jackram2h2]

@skillfulsnipes Ah, I see where you're going at now. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[sulacomarine]

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Y U NO HAVE MARTIN / TAVINGTON FIGHT IN THIS VIDEO?!

[andrewcvdm]

Wow. so this is how America was born, I never knew. Mel Gibson.

[drewbjennings]

this is actually the battle of cowpens.

[4295eye]

@drewbjennings Its a mix of both but mainly cowpens.

[tsodey]

anyone notice he cutout the part about killing tavernton

[rebelraider5]

@tsodey I know right

[GermanConquistador08]

Cowpens...goddamit Ronald and Gibson.

[L96A1Armaggedon]

I only wish i knew what potato was used to record this.

[GolfstickProductions]

Why did they have to aim?!?!? The reason for lining up in tight formation is so the muskets actually hit something when they fired.........

[jackram2h2]

@GolfstickProductions It was the only strategy anybody knew back then.

[ILOVETHE1700s]

@GolfstickProductions People underestimate muskets. You can aim with them and hit at 100 or even 120 yards. This film is not accurate and in real life, people only lined up at that distance to charge. They are in tight formation only because of the time it takes to reload them.

[engliscwarrior]

the British army was tough as nails. read what really happened at Guilford Courthouse, not this fictional rubbish

[KoMDraegast]

@engliscwarrior

Actually they named the battle wrong... this was the battle of Cowpens, Its the only battle I know that had the first line milita and the fallback lines were regulars, the English however were halted only at the third line, not the second line because the militia regrouped and gave flank fire on the English regulars

[USMarineRifleman0311]

This is actually the Battle of Cowpens 1781

The British cavalry officer is Tarleton. Mel Gibson's character is supposed to be Daniel Morgan.

This was historically, Tarleton's last battle

[LOLSeeker838]

4:17 = OWNED!

[LOLSeeker838]

This looks like a real life Empire Total War video

[KingsofSparta]

@LOLSeeker838 in empire total war the american independence failed by my hand hahaa. (i played a british campaign)

[LOLSeeker838]

@KingsofSparta I wonder what it would be like if we lost the revolution? any Guesses?

[GermanConquistador08]

@LOLSeeker838 If it was Empire total war then all of the cannon shots would either hit your own men or a tree fifty miles from where you wanted it to.

[AnonNumberZero]

240p we meet again.