The Patriot

The Patriot The Patriot is a 2000 American historical war film. The film mainly takes place in York County, South Carolina. The movie depicts a story of an American who is swept into the American Revolutionary War when his family is threatened. Benjamin Martin, one of the main figures, is based on four real American Revolutionary heroes being: Andrew Pickens, Francis Marion, Daniel Morgan, and Thomas Sumter. In the movie, Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), a veteran of the French and Indian War and widower with seven children, is called to Charleston to vote in the South Carolina General Assembly on a levy supporting the Continental Army. Benjamin decides to abstain for the fear of a war against Great Britain. Some years later, Benjamin is given the rank of colonel to lead the local colonel militia. Benjamin’s militia harass British supply lines, capture goods, and burn half the bridges and ferries leading to Charleston. Cornwallis blames Tavington for creating these reactions and allows Tavington to do whatever is necessary to stop Benjamin’s militia. Tavington then starts to attack family members of the militia and burn their homes. Tavington assembles all of the townspeople of the village of Wakefield into their church, promising to free them if they give up the secret location of the hideout. When the let loose of the secret, the church doors are barricaded, trapping all of the townspeople inside, and the church is burned down. When Gabriel, one of Benjamin’s sons, gets word of what Tavington had done to the townspeople, he races to attack Tavington. Gabriel had thought to have mortally wounded Tavington, but it turned out that Tavington was faking. Tavington murdered Gabriel by stabbing him through his heart. Benjamin’s militia, along with a larger Continental Army, confront Cornwallis in battle. Benjamin gets revenge of his sons’ death by killing Tavington in the battle. The battle ended up to be a Continental victory and Cornwallis is forced to retreat.