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 revolutionary war. British dragoons 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. The special is operations to capture general charles lee and Richard Prescott by Christian Mcburney.
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 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 belie
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 matt damon or George Clooney with a leading role. If anyone is interested in being a screenwriter, please let me know. I am just kidding. I am not taking it that seriously. That is charles lee. These operations of kidnapping were not infrequent. George washington supported such efforts undertaken by the Continental Army. Referring to a plan to capture clinton in new york city, he wrote i think it one
And we pretty firmly said thered be a last one. I knew from the polls that every day out i could easily be reelected this year. But i. Me too. We wanted to go home. I want to have more time. My kids are grandkids. We both like school, but i would have more time for that. But also, i. Its time for somebody else to come in there. And i wanted to be able to do things, but i. University of vermont and other places to help people. Oh, whats happened . The last half century, you know, youre you are not, in fact, the youre the president protem of the senate, but you are not the oldest senator. There are four others who are older than you, senator feinstein is 89. She was just elected to another term. Senator grassley is 88. Hes in the middle of a reelection campaign. Why is it so hard for so many senators to do what you have decided to do . Well, each one has to answer their own reasons. Of course, i served there with 400, approximately 400 of the 1900 senators whove been here in the history
I did not expect to be here this long. And my wife, marcelle and i talked about it right after the last election. And we pretty firmly said thered be a last one. I knew from the polls that every day out i could easily be reelected this year. But i. Me too. We wanted to go home. I want to have more time. My kids are grandkids. We both like school, but i would have more time for that. But also, i. Its time for somebody else to come in there. And i wanted to be able to do things, but i. University of vermont and other places to help people. Oh, whats happened . The last half century, you know, youre you are not, in fact, the youre the president protem of the senate, but you are not the oldest senator. There are four others who are older than you, senator feinstein is 89. She was just elected to another term. Senator grassley is 88. Hes in the middle of a reelection campaign. Why is it so hard for so many senators to do what you have decided to do . Well, each one has to answer their own r