00:00When Parliament named these laws coercive, they meant to bend us to their will.
00:21But in Boston, we knew them by another name. The Intolerance.
00:34One more after this! This bloody rain! God help me!
00:38They closed our harbour. Our lifeblood. No ship could sail, no merchant trade.
00:44Our town. Punished for those of us brave enough to exercise our liberties.
00:50Then they struck at those liberties.
00:54Our charter dissolved. Assemblies dismissed.
00:58And soldiers quartered among us to watch. To warn. To remind us of who wore the yoke.
01:04And who carried the lash.
01:07They thought they would break Boston. Isolated.
01:11Instead, the colonies saw their own fate in ours.
01:14Even Washington himself said. The cause of Boston is the cause of America.
01:20The crown meant to choke a single city. But awakened thirteen colonies.
01:26Men who had never met. Now rode as brothers.
01:30Finding unity in the very pressure meant to divide us.
01:34John. It's time.
01:36John. It's time.
01:38John. It's time.
01:40John. It's time.
01:42John. It's time.
01:44John. It's time.
01:46John. It's time.
01:48provide us.
01:55John, it's time.
02:18John, it's time.
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