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You are watching American History tv, 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. While congress is on august break, cspan prime time programming will feature a wide range of political views and topics. Includeks programs latino elected officials, the conservative summit, and Netroots Nation conference. Up, Arthur Christian mcburney talks about his book am kidnapping the enemy. It chronicles the capture of two high ranking officers during the revolution...

When british dragoons in december 1776 kidnapped Major General charles lee, then secondincommand of the Continental Army. They were confident the war would soon be over. But the americans decided to respond with a special operation of their own. This event from the National Archives is a little under one hour. Our topic is the special operations to capture general charles lee and Richard Prescott by Christian Mcburney. Raised in rhode island and graduated from Brown University, mr. Mcburney has been an attorney in washington, d. C. , for the last 25 years. His prior book to kidnapping the enem...

Raised in rhode island and graduated from Brown University, mr. Mcburney has been an attorney in washington, d. C. , for the last 25 years. His prior book to kidnapping the enemy was also on the revolutionary war. Please join me in welcoming Christian Mcburney to the national archives. [applause] thank you. Before i begin my presentation, i would like to know if anyone in the audience is a hollywood screenwriter. A few days ago, i received a call from someone who professed to be a hollywood agent saying he wanted to submit the screenplay of my book to hollywood and believe it or not having mat...

Good at that. I can evoke memory quite easily. Rose ian mckellen, Patrick Stewart and Anjelica Huston when we continue. Sir ian mckellen and sir Patrick Stewart are here. The actors were a member of the Royal Shakespeare company together. They became friends in hollywood. Patrick stewart playing professor xavier and ian mckellen plays mag nino the xmen film series. Fans of lord of the rings know mckellen as gahn dofl. The brits are performing two plays in repertoire at the cort theater on broadway. The plays are Samuel Becketts waiting for godot and Harold Pinters nomansland. Im pleased to hav...

Good at that. I can evoke memory quite easily. Rose ian mckellen, Patrick Stewart and Anjelica Huston when we continue. Sir ian mckellen and sir Patrick Stewart are here. The actors were a member of the Royal Shakespeare company together. They became friends in hollywood. Patrick stewart playing professor xavier and ian mckellen plays mag nino the xmen film series. Fans of lord of the rings know mckellen as gahn dofl. The brits are performing two plays in repertoire at the cort theater on broadway. The plays are Samuel Becketts waiting for godot and Harold Pinters nomansland. Im pleased to hav...