has no choice but to surrender. >> where is lord cornwallis?when lord cornwallis claims that he's feeling too ill to actually go out and conduct the surrender, it was not just a personal slight against washington, it was a mark of disrespect to all americans. the british still refused to admit that the americans had be soundly. >> general lincoln here will accept the sword. you may tell cornwallis i'm not feeling well myself. >> the human cost of bringing freedom to america nearly devastates general washington. but he and his fellow patriots must now look ahead. the task before them is to create a new form of government that prevents tyranny, upholds liberty, and maintains its hard-won independence. it is a challenge that will force the newly sovereign nation to define what it means to be american and, in the end, set itself apart from the rest of the world. >>> a major shake-up rocks the democratic party amid e-mail scandal just hours before the start of the con veng. this is "special report." good evening. i'm bret baier coming to you tonight

five generations of his family have fished off cornwall. his father established their fish merchant business in the 1930s. >> i love doing it. i'm not a sailor, mind. this is quite an exceptional trip for me to be on a boat. >> reporter: thank you. we're very grateful. stevens relies on a mostly eastern european staff, rather than cornish people, to filet and pack his fish. that's one reason he voted to remain in the e.u. >> i'd love to employ 80 cornishmen, you know, but come on guys, where are you? you know, come to me. we've got work here. >> reporter: besides skilled workers, the e.u. has provided stevens money to help grow his business through a match-funding grant which gave him 45% of the money, about $460,000, needed to equip his factory and buy new machinery. in return, stevens was tasked with increasing revenue and the number of people he employed. >> i've been able to develop my business from a staff of five to almost 90 staff, multi-multi- million pound turnover business but i've been able to do that with the support of brussels

projects in cornwall. in that time, the e.u. has poured about a billion euros in subsidies into the region -- to fuel new economic fields like handicrafts, media, and the digital industry. now alex is worried about more than her own job. she sees the rural region's whole structural transformation endangered. alex lake: the people often say, i haven't had any european funding, but we drive on european roads and we use a european airport. we use a european-funded port, and you use a superfast broad-band website, which has been installed with european money. and so it's never directly given to an individual, but it paid for the structure, the infrastructure that allows you to do business with the rest of the world. we drive to the neighboring town, hayle, where alex works on a major eu project. generating energy from the ocean, for example with wave energy plants -- cornwall was to become a pioneer. the brand new technology park was opened only a few weeks ago. the e.u. provided 15 million euros in funding. alex lake: if the uk is

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phil black is live in cornwall right now. their brexit cake and to eat it too. >> reporter: indeed, john, yes. hundreds of millions of pounds is being invested here in cornwall, money that has come from the european union. it is targeted at communities, areas of europe that requires development, where poverty and that sort of thing is an issue. and so here in cornwall as traditional industries like fisheries and so forth have suffered over the years, it has received this money to build up roads, infrastructure, to go into training, education, boosting the economy, creating jobs. that's the whole idea. as i say, it's a huge sum of money. despite that, it did not stop the people of cornwall voting in favor of britain leaving the european union. 56% in total voted for brexit. now people here, certainly the local authorities, are looking at potentially a huge black hole in their plans to develop this region. and so they are hoping -- appealing, really, to the british government to step in and match that money. of course whether t

so he sends cornwallis down, cornwallis very much with benedict arnold had earlier done at valcourt islands very interesting. on either side of the river that flows through trenton and then into the delaware the british send a wave after wave of soldiers across at this very narrow bridge. they are repulsed by boxes canon but the american army is in a very tight spot. there there is nowhere for them to hide. cornwallis says as night comes on will get them in the morning. well what does washington do with some help and this is where joseph read, even though though he had betrayed washington in a very personal way just a month earlier he really helped him out at this stage because he had taken some philadelphians on horseback up to princeton earlier and had sort of figured out the lay of the land up there and with other input they decided to sneak out that night and do an end to run an attack princeton. that would become the great victory at princeton and that would just add to washington's laurels and have the added effect of basically clearing the british out of that portion of new jersey a

negotiated cornwallis' knew hamilton quite well. talleyrand was close. there is a published correspondence between one for any jefferson. they all admired washington. they all look up to washington. leadera model of the that they had failed to become inference. -- hatfield to become -- had failed to become in frace. the essential -- the essential french ambassador looked at them with suspicion. he thought they were fomenting a revolution. i came across a note where washington passed a message along through his secretary of war. he did not want to invite them to dinner because he had to be careful about the diplomatic context. >> was there any lasting influence from the french? >> that is a great question. rich andays this diverse community, some went to france and someone back to haiti. others just filtered away. i think it was an important inacy left both on the city terms of cultural life, but in terms of the connections forged between these figures and wealthy americans. many of them began not just social life, but collaborating in bland and economic

cornwallis says we will get them in the morning.some help, he agreed even though was of very personal he hoped to mount because some were held down on horseback and with some other input decided to speak out to do the end run that is the great victory of princeton that would just add to have the added effect to carry the british out of that portion of new jersey or philadelphia state. >> last one. >> could you go over a little bit how benedict arledge was exposed? >> it is wonderful cloaking a dagger stuff. arnold and audrey had this correspondence. they need to have a face-to-face before they go through with this operation and they had all set up the british admiral rodney has arrived from new york they had warships and soldiers all set to go. but god trade needs to have a face-to-face with arnold. so they do that literally a midnight meeting on the western baying of the hudson. the escape vessel that they were to take back down to new york appropriately named vulture. [laughter] you cannot make this up. it is fired upon by an offi

. - [sighs] it's no fair professor cornwallis turned all hard-assed again. - lucky pierce. donating his kidney to gilbert to get out of it. - i never thought he'd be that generous. although, he did seem disappointed that the operation didn't involve sleeping with a russian woman, then waking up in a bathtub full of ice. - hmm. - guys! - hmm? - history! - i am studying history. i'm studying our history. - abed! - nobody bite. we agreed no biting. - but, jeff, it's a graduation gift. you see, on the surface we seem like just a group of people

cornwallis it as it comes on -- what does washington do? even though he betrayed washington in a personal way a month earlier helped him out at this stage because he had taken philadelphia on horse back up to princeton earlier and figured out the lay of the land up there and they decided to sneak out that night and do an end run and attack princeton and that would become the great victory of princeton. that would add to washington's laurels, clearing the british and leaving philadelphia safe. last one. >> i don't recall all of my history but can you talk about how benedict arnold, was exposed, was colonel andre captured? >> wonderful cloak and dagger stuff. arnold and andre had this correspondence but never met each other personally. the british are not even -- is it arnold we are corresponding with? they need to have a face-to-face before they go through with this operation and have it all set up, british admiral rodney has arrived in new york, and influx of transport and worship to go up the hudson, soldiers all set to go after west point

which means that the british army in yorktown under lord cornwallis is now in very bad straits. where is rodney? what happened to rodney was she knew all of this was going to happen. heater there was going to be a showdown with the french. ordinarily he would have loved that. instead he gets permission from the first lord of the admiralty to go home because he is ill. and i say that he was ill all right. did not want to get mixed up with clinton and be responsible for finally losing the war because he never understood why clinton did not do what he did and take west point in the previous year. so ronnie is in england when this major battle is being fought. when he finds out that the british lost, he is apoplectic. when he finds out the tactics the british admiral used to lose the battle, he is even more apoplectic. i maintain that the british fixation with the hudson river strong that they lost the battle of saratoga, and was so strong they lost the battle of yorktown because on clintonso soured because you did not do what he would think would win the war, which is take the huds

trump's negativity has made a legitimate and wonderful for democrats to be old really cornwa cornwall this place. this is the greatest place in the world. democrats thought that was unsophisticated until they met donald trump and now they realize it is the popular side of the issue. loving the country as it is while wanting it to get better is the new democratic position thanks to trump. >> the thing about joe biden is that joe biden is a force of nature on an average tuesday morning but you give him a stage, you give him a platform like this, and we didn't have prepared remarks. i wasn't following along on the teleprompter or anything. i will guarantee you that that bore very little resemblance to what was written down for him to say. for him to be moved enough by what he was saying that at the end, he just yells, "come on, we're america." there's just nobody else in politics in my lifetime who pulls off that kind of emotion and enthusiasm and authenticity the way that joe biden does and that is one of the things that he will be missed for when he's no longer vice president. >> lawre

the group is called the cornwall alliance for the stewardship of creation. not like going big if you're going to pick a name for yourself. their quote starts with a quote from the 19th psalm. the heavens declare the glory of god and the fairmment claims his handiwork. then the group goes on to declare in their own words, by using fossil fuels to generate energy to lift billions of god's children, precious children out of poverty, we liberate from the tomb of earth the carbon dioxide on which plants and therefore all the rest of life depend. in light of these considerations, we believe it is both unwise and unjust to adopt policies requiring reduced use of fossil fuels for energy. so somebody is really using scripture to argue that making our energy production cleaner, safer, cheaper violates the christian tenet of caring for the poor? i'm a christian and many of us in this body have a deep faith background in one faith or another but i'll use a non-christian phrase to describe that argument. it takes a lot of hudz pa to claim yourologyious faith and compassi