When a rebel army under Major General Nathanael Greene is cornered at Guilford Courthouse by Cornwallis, the situation is desperate but Martin suggests a plan that could lead to victory. The ruthless methods are effective and the British retake the initiative. Infuriated by the havoc wreaked by the partisans, Major General Charles Cornwallis, British commander in the south, authorizes Tavington to use brutal tactics to scourge the guerrillas. When a member of his family is killed by Colonel William Tavington, the commander of the Green Dragoons, Martin joins the war.ДЄ skilled guerrilla leader, Martin leads a band of partisans to keep the British too occupied in the Carolinas to move north and threaten the main rebel army under George Washington. When the two armies meet at Camden, Gates leads the rebels to defeat, and the Virginia Continentals are massacred by the Green Dragoons after they had surrendered. An army is sent from the north under Major General Horatio Gates to prevent the British from gaining control of the Southern colonies. Following brief scenes of the Continentals being crushed by British redcoats and then freezing in a winter camp, presumably Valley Forge, the story jumps forward four years to CharlestonвЂ™s surrender. When he refuses to vote in favor of revolution, Gabriel (Heath Ledger), his oldest son, joins the Continentals, against his wishes. Plot SummaryД«enjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) is a plantation owner and a representative to the South Carolina assembly. The British thought that they had finally subdued the Carolinas. The redcoats charged, most of the militia ran away, and the Continentals were surrounded and slaughtered. Gates, the hero of Saratoga, rashly led an army of exhausted, starving Continentals (the regular army) and raw militia into battle against an equal number of redcoats and Tory regulars at Camden, South Carolina on August 17.

Worse, the surrender of a British army under Lieutenant General John Burgoyne to Major General Horatio Gates at Saratoga on Octoconvinced France to enter into a formal alliance with the American colonies, thus widening the conflict.Д«y late 1779, the war in the north had reached stalemate, so the British shifted operations to the south, thought to be overflowing with loyalists, and Charleston, South Carolina fell on after a lengthy siege.

Hoping to deal the rebellion a fatal blow, Philadelphia, the capital of the colonies, had been captured in September 1777 but instead of capitulating, the rebel army reformed and continued to fight. The British had been taken by surprise by the American colonistsвЂ™ rebellion in 1775, which started the American Revolution (1775-1783), but a major defeat was inflicted on the rebels at New York City in September 1776. Producers: Dean Devlin, Mark Gordon and Gary LevinsohnД®xecutive Producers: Roland Emmerich, Ute Emmerich and William FayДirector: Roland Emmerich Historical Background Cast: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Cooper, Tcheky Karo and Tom Wilkinson

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