now when we reach yorktown, we can surround the british!gton and rochambeau arrive, while we still can. no! when our own ships arrive, we will engage the rebels in the single battle that will give us america! but what if our ships don't arrive?! i mean, yes, sir! those ships are not ours! they are british! we are not ready to do battle. admirale de grasse, if the british attack before we get into formation, they'll tear us to pieces! prepare to meet them! all hands on deck! signal the fleet! run the cannons out! weigh anchor and hoist the sails! full speed west-southwest! battle line formation! fire when in range! admirale de grasse: ha ha! the fool! he is not attacking. he is stopping to form a battle line. half their fleet is becalmed, sir. the wind favors us. this just might give us the time we need. [men shouting indistinctly] duke de deux ponts: admiral, the british are running for open water! admiral de grasse: cease fire! cease fire! [cheering] they will head north to get more british ships to protect them. i wonder whether rochambea

he was completely outnumbered by the time he reached yorktown. the fact is the british had never anticipated having to occupy america. they predicated the war in the belief that the majority of americans supported written. they believe that the revolutionary leadership was in the minority. they described it as a little then did he. this seemed to be based and this is crucial from my point of view , seem to be based on seemingly good information available to them. the view was supported by american loyalists exiles living in london. people like joseph galloway of philadelphia who said right up to the time of yorktown, four out of five americans support the british. their belief seemingly was confirmed by the efforts to suppress dissension by the patriot committees of safety. it should also always be emphasized that like most revolutions this was also a civil war. after 1776 it was indeed typical for the continental army to recruit the same numbers as they had done earlier. thomas paine complained about what he called the summer soldier and the sun

yorktown/falls church and it's a party. dj hit me right there and student body, do your thing. [ screaming ] >>> a mother says her little girl is being benched by her coaches from cheerleading simply because she has a disability. >> if the volleyball is going to fly off the court and hit somebody, it's just as likely to hit somebody else as it is to hit her. >> britney has downs syndrome. her mom says she's been a cheerleader throughout junior high and last week at a high school volleyball game she participated, but there was a different coach this week who said the freshman could not participate. >> that's her favorite thing to do. she doesn't understand why they're telling her she can't do it. >> essentially the bottom line is the young lady is still a member of the team. she's still an honorary member of the team. >> you can understand how much this means to the family. the school does say federal law prevents them from talking about what's going on with any particular student, but we are told administrators are working

top notch. >>> let's take it to break with our band of the week yorktown. take us home, fighting patriots. [ drums ] band playing ] >>> a massive fire torches over 100 tons of hay and a water fight will have you planning your next summer vacation. it's all video with cheering in tomorrow's streaming. >> the only words that come to mind here are flame on. this monster flame beast is known as a hay fire. it's burning wildly in a place called winters, california. it consumed more than 10 acres and 100 tons of hay and the real problem no, source of water to put it out. they to truck it all in, $6 million in damages so far, no word on a cause, but 1 good piece of advice, no smoking on a hay ride, folks. >> good idea. >>> now to butler, ohio, where folks are taking slip and slide to a whole other level. that looks like it might hurt at a sports camp called ohio dreams and yeah, these guys are making quite a splash. you got to land a certain way, though. it could hurt a lot. >> that's insane. >> that's the dream. i couldn't know. pretty cool. >> it is. happy frida

this was only one lifetime after yorktown their rich those who were small children with united states of america achieved its independence then it in the following years after world war i united states was the most powerful country in the world and that process accentuated itself considerably. that period ends 1933 that was another terrible crisis it was a world depression and there were extreme threats to democracy in other powerful countries in the world and frankly roosevelt was inaugurated at a time psychologically and his task and mandate to revive that but he also deployed there reviving strength of america to preserve democracy in the world berry successfully. >> host: the next section of "flight of the eagle" 1933 through 1957. conrad black, why did this and 1957? >> guest: to be honest i wanted each section to be approximately equal in pages and chapters. it could have gone to the end of the cold war but i thought it appropriate to take the most desperate periods of the of americans the united states despite the tremendous heroism in the period between the of fall of 1940 and

played a crucial role and helping them the american revolution by cornering morgan cornwallis at yorktown. and then he went back to france later and he encouraged george washington. they were very close, like father and son. george washington didn't have any children, that he basically was in lafayette. lafayette brought plantations in south america, slave plantations in south america. mafia trained for slaves are to farm for themselves and he liberated them anyone along with all this. but washington was exhausted from the 20 odd years of campaigning first in the french and indian wars and then the american revolution. he couldn't do it. eventually when lafayette was imprisoned during the french revolution, his son was sent to george washington, take care of my son while all was breaking loose in europe. so they're wonderful relationships among a lot of these people. i have to say i was late in appreciating the momentous contributions of george washington. there's a lot of authors. george washington, you know, we think of what he did in conduct in the wars. he was very good with deception

example played a crucial role in helping to win the american revolution by cornering cornwallis at yorktown then he went back to france later and encouraged george washington. they were very close like father and son. washington didn't have any children that he basically got to lafayette, and lafayette bought plantations in south america, great plantations in south america and trained the slave how to farm for themselves and liberated them and washington was going along with all of this but washington was exhausted from his 20 odd years of campaigning first in the french and indian war and then in the american revolution. he couldn't do it. but eventually when lafayette was in prison during the french revolution, his son was sent to george washington. take care of my son

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now big announcement, drumroll, please, set a record in our game of the week poll, falls church, yorktown won the poll 650,000 votes cast, highlights tomorrow night. that's going to be a lot of fun. >> but dave owens won the poll for reddest tie ever of all time. >> he's looking sharp. >> we can't even show you those shoes which if he clicks the heels together three times, he will be at his appointment in alexandria. we'll be there's this island -- and it's got super-cute kangaroos. barrow island has got rare kangaroos. ♪ chevron has been developing energy here for decades. we need to protect their environment. we have a strict quarantine system to protect the integrity of the environment. forty years on, it's still a class-a nature reserve. it's our job to look after them. ...it's my job to look after it. ♪ did you say, "when i stream true blood on my slow internet it always buffers at the best part"? yeah? hi, jericho. oh my! i'll get you better internet if you invite me in. please come in, pam. this is crazy! pam is in my living room! [ male announcer ] with fios, america's fastest, mo

john: yorktown got in the worst trouble because yourast mayor was taken money for himself, kilpatrickd city funds to fund junkets, 54 trips, when zero rentals, but the charges, hired 29 of his closest friends and family for city positions. people didn't notice? >> that was not even the worst of it. the worst of it that he was actually using -- he was receiving kickbacks for fines of his choice to give and city contracts to his favorite cronies that used to be called friends and family in detroit. so he used to talk a good game. he would talk bring all kinds of development to detroit at the same time as he was talking about the big game he was quietly siphoning the city coffers for money whic is one reason why the chart was left in the financial mess. john: trucks are crooks, but even regular politicians wreck cities. i will confront one of your city council members. we want to make it easier for business. giving them tax breaks. they have all these deals. what's wrong with that? >> they're giving tax breaks to businesses that they have hand-picked. these -- this is the kind of mentali

the battle at yorktown, the surrender at appomattox courthouse, the attack on the pentagon on 9/11. our map is a map of american military history. we are more connected to the military in the sense one in nine of our citizens is a veteran. we have active duty at the pentagon, training to be officers at quantico, the largest concentration of naval power in the hampton roads. we have department of defense contractors, we have department of defense civilians like army nurses, we have rotc cadets, guard and reserve member and military families, all of whom care very, very deeply about the issue that we're grappling with as a nation. and, madam president, i'm sure in your state, as in mine, and across the country, there is a tremendous war weariness on this 12th anniversary of 9/11, and that affects the way we look at this question of whether the united states should potentially engage in military action. i cast a vote last week and i'm going to talk about it in the senate foreign relations commission to authorize limited military action, and i have spent the days since that vote talking

. >> well, the siege of yorktown. i'm forgetting my history. >> i think i would have got a little more support from sean connery on this. i'm disappointed. >> the other bond? >> yeah, the other bond. the cold war, i think watching this -- i don't like getting mad at russia gn. and the cold war, it warmed up and now i think this is going to help make it get cold again. he's stick right in -- >> the bottom line want syria had a lot of yushan weapons. >> i think more just the idea of him running it in means it is more likely you reach an agreement with syria on the diplomatic effect. >> the difficult is setting an agenda. if you look at this current admin administration, that's not going to please you. >> ross westgate from london, we're going to go to the other side of this country to california to talk tech news. two of the industry's most prominent ceos spoke out last night. facebook's mark zuckerberg and yahoo!'s marissa mayer. julia, let's start with you. >> good morning, andrew. at the q&a, mark zuckerberg was post