He also thinks Jim doesn’t know what he’s getting into, a point underscored by cross-cut flash-forwards to scenes of blank-faced soldiers marching past their allies’ graves. Now we’re with ...

Shortly before 6 a.m., as dawn broke, the women and children walked off the common, leaving a rag-tag group of about two dozen militiamen to confront the British soldiers marching west from Boston.

Her outstanding physical fitness seemed set to help win her a place in the British Army's record books. But in the final reckoning, Captain Phillippa Tattersall's military skills let her down.