| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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The Brave Man. Dir. by Joseph McCarthy, 2001. 33 mins. (Cinema Guild, 130 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016-7038; 212-685-6242; <info@cinemaguild.com>; < http://www.cinemaguild.com > [Sept. 13, 2004])

This engaging documentary film portrays key events that took place on August 27, 1776, during the battle of Long Island. On that day, more than fifteen thousand British and Hessian troops skillfully outflanked Patriot American soldiers deployed along a ridge outside their Brooklyn Heights defenses. In one critical series of actions, Delaware and Maryland troops under Gen. William Alexander, the pretended Lord Stirling, not only courageously resisted His Majesty's onrushing soldiers but actually kept attacking them at the Cortelyou-Vechte stone house (a re-creation of which stands in Brooklyn today). Although many Continentals under Stirling's immediate command, particularly Marylanders, lost their lives, they successfully kept a pathway open for their retreating comrades to regain the relative safety of their Brooklyn Heights defenses.

A map depicts the placement and movement of forces during the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776. The Brave Man shows how the Continentals, although outnumbered by British troops, succeeded in regaining the relative safety of their Brooklyn Heights defenses. Map drawn by Matteo Pericoli. Courtesy Baltic Street Media, Inc.

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