Hundreds of rebels languish in prison in 1839, months after the British army quelled the Patriots' uprising. Marie-Thomas Chevalier De Lorimier and Charles Hindelang learn that they and three other comrades will be executed within 24 hours on the morning of February 14. While awaiting their hour of death, the condemned spend time with companions and loved ones and entrust their last wills to them. At daybreak, the five Patriots find the strength to go with dignity to the scaffold, knowing that they would die in the name of a just cause. www.tribute.ca
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Hundreds of rebels languish in prison in 1839, months after the British army quelled the Patriots' uprising. Marie-Thomas Chevalier De Lorimier and Charles Hindelang learn that they and three other comrades will be executed within 24 hours on the morning of February 14. While awaiting their hour of death, the condemned spend time with companions and loved ones and entrust their last wills to them. At daybreak, the five Patriots find the strength to go with dignity to the scaffold, knowing that they would die in the name of a just cause. www.tribute.ca
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