The Patriot
?The Patriot? starts in South Carolina in 1776. The movie is a family?s story about what they went through during the American Revolution. Mel Gibson stars as Benjamin who was a hero at Fort Wilderness during the French and Indian War, and a widower with seven children. Benjamin is part of the assembly in South Carolina. Benjamin is a respected man in the south because of the role he played in the battle at Fort Wilderness.
In the beginning of the movie Benjamin tells his family they are going to Charleston because the South Carolina assembly is meeting there. While they are in Charleston they stay with their aunt Charlotte. Gabriel, Benjamin?s oldest son, decides to sign up with the militia to fight against the British for independence. Benjamin gets angry and they return home. A few moths later Gabriel writes his younger brother Thomas and tells him what is going on in the war. In Gabriel?s letter he writes about the fall of Charlestown to the British under command of Lord Cornwallis. Gabriel says that the north is also not doing well due to starvation and low moral. Gabriel ends his letter saying he is about to march south
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