00:00There are moments in history where people attempt ambitious things.
00:03Climbing Mount Everest, landing on the moon, trying to assemble IKEA furniture,
00:08and then there was America in 1776.
00:11Gentlemen, we are going to war against the British Empire.
00:15Um, respectfully, sir, but have you recently suffered a head injury?
00:19So have you always wondered, just what were the Americans thinking?
00:23I mean, the mighty British military must have looked at that revolution and said,
00:27Um, yeah, we should have this wrapped up before lunch.
00:30Except America had one secret weapon, total and complete chaos.
00:34Fort Stanwyck's, 1777.
00:37British forces surrounded the fort.
00:39General Benedict Arnold captured a local loyalist and said he would spare his life
00:43if he'd run into the British camp and tell a lie.
00:46American troops are coming, thousands of them.
00:49Hannock spread, British soldiers fled, and the fort was saved without a single shot being fired.
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