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Benjamin gives him care, and to the rest of the wounded soldiers, both Continental and British, through the night into morning.

As Benjamin draws a pistol to the stranger, it is revealed to be Gabriel, en route to deliver dispatches. A lone and wounded soldier enters the home. One night, gunfire erupts outside the Martin home and the family watches as a battle ensues just beyond their property. Though Benjamin refuses to let him join, he relents that Thomas may enlist when he's seventeen in two years. At home, Thomas is found by Benjamin, trying on a red coat stored away in his father's war chest, and expresses his desire to join the army. The war wages on for two more years and Gabriel writes letters to his family throughout, expressing the horrors of war he's witnessed. Colonel Harry Burwell ( Chris Cooper), a friend and ally of Benjamin's, regards Gabriel's similarities to his father and promises to watch out for him. Being of age, Gabriel enlists in the Continental army without his father's permission. While there, it is voted that South Carolina join the war against the British despite Benjamin's advice against it. When word comes in that a congress is being held in Charleston regarding the war, Gabriel and his brother Thomas ( Gregory Smith) eagerly accompany their father. His eldest son, Gabriel ( Heath Ledger), is keenly interested in the fighting between the American colonies and the British the Revolutionary War has been waged in other colonies for some time, though Benjamin does not share his enthusiasm in war.

#The patriot 2000 movie part 1 free#

He manages his land with free servants and employs in carpentry, particularly fashioning rocking chairs, though he has little success with it. Benjamin Martin ( Mel Gibson), a veteran of the 1754-1760 French and Indian War, is a widower raising his seven children (five sons and two daughters) on his farm in South Carolina.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Benjamin quickly finds himself torn between protecting his family, and seeking revenge along with being a part of the birth of a new, young, and ambitious nation. But when Colonel William Tavington, British dragoon, infamous for his brutal tactics, comes and burns the Martin Plantation to the ground, tragedy strikes.

Meanwhile, his two eldest sons, Gabriel and Thomas, can't wait to enlist in the newly formed 'Continental Army.' When South Carolina decides to join the rebellion against England, Gabriel immediately signs up to fight.without his father's permission. Benjamin Martin, a French-Indian war hero who is haunted by his past, now wants nothing more than to live peacefully on his small plantation, and wants no part of a war with the most powerful nation in the world, Great Britain. Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.