During the Knox Cannon Train it was exactly the right snow and thaw. When Washington was cornered in the disastrous battle of Brooklyn, it was a foggy night that allowed John Glover and his Marblehead fishermen to row the troops across The East River to safety. When Crossing the Delaware en route to The Battle of Trenton, those same fishermen had just the right amount of ice and thaw to get across while giving the Hessian enemy a false sense of security. "Victory or Death" was the password.

In the introductory segment, we interview Mike Moresco, a modern-day Paul Revere, on his cross-country bike ride for honesty, starting at The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor and ending up at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.