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* [[Playing Against Type]]: [[Adam Baldwin]] as a pro-British anti-American Independence man? Impossible!
* [[Poisonous Friend]]: Gen. Cornwallis wants to fight the war honorably, as do most of the other British soldiers encountered in the film. However, Tavington attempts to prove his worthiness/dedication to the cause by taking actions that Cornwallis expressely forbids, until Tavington finally manages to corrupt Cornwallis at the end of the film and he gives Tavington permission to capture Martin using brutal tactics.
* [[Pride]]: Martin notes it as Cornwallis' [[Fatal Flaw]], and it proves to be true. Pride motivates Cornwallis to making use of Tavington, tarring his own reputation and binding him closer to Tavington's noxious influence. Pride causes Cornwallis to underestimate the militia. Pride motivates Cornwallis to charge headlong in like Tavington does, rather than risk letting Tavington earn the acclaim. And ultimately, pride leaves Cornwallis huddling humiliated in his room while sending his subordinate out to surrender in his stead.
* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: (With shades of [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and [[Was It Really Worth It?]].) By the end, Benjamin Martin has {{spoiler|violently lost his home, his two eldest sons, his daughter-in-law and her family and her entire village, his sister-in-law's home, and at some points his own self-respect. Many of his friends and comrades made similar sacrifices; he watches as a longtime friend shoots himself in the head after finding his own family slain}}.
** And his younger sons have lost their innocence when he enlisted them to rescue Gabriel.
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