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* {{Auction}}: St. Albans holds an auction of captured Confederate items to raise money for the local company of troops. Capt. Foster and Benton both bid for a Confederate flag: Foster because he never had the opportunity to collect any battle souvenirs of his own, and Benton because he is an undercover Confederate operative and does not want the flag in Yankee hands. Benton eventually raises the bidding to a point where Foster cannot follow .However, at this point, Katy Price steps in and trumps Benton's bid. Not wanting to bid against her, Benton withdraws.Katy buys the flag and makes it a gift to Foster.
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* {{Auction}}: St. Albans holds an auction of captured Confederate items to raise money for the local company of troops. Capt. Foster and Benton both bid for a Confederate flag: Foster because he never had the opportunity to collect any battle souvenirs of his own, and Benton because he is an undercover Confederate operative and does not want the flag in Yankee hands. Benton eventually raises the bidding to a point where Foster cannot follow .However, at this point, Katy Price steps in and trumps Benton's bid. Not wanting to bid against her, Benton withdraws. Katy buys the flag and makes it a gift to Foster.
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* AccidentalHero: The drunken Lt. Keating interrupts a church service, shoots one man then tries to murder the preacher and is promptly shot dead by Maj. Benton, the raid leader, almost giving away the plot. The townspeople shower Benton with gratitude for this, not realizing his own true identity.
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* HumanShield: Major Benton and his raiders force the citizens of St. Albans into the middle of the main street to form a 'human blockade' to make the approaching Union cavalry troops to break their charge.
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* SuspiciouslySpecific Sermon: Rev. Lucas delivers a sermon on the subject rebellion that sends Lt. Keating into a homicidal rampage and forces Maj. Benton to shoot and kill him.
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* SuspiciouslySpecific Sermon: SuspiciouslySpecificSermon: Rev. Lucas delivers a sermon on the subject rebellion that sends Lt. Keating into a homicidal rampage and forces Maj. Benton to shoot and kill him.
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* SuspiciouslySpecific Sermon: Rev. Lucas delivers a sermon on the subject rebellion that sends Lt. Keating into a homicidal rampage and forces Maj. Benton to shoot and kill him.
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* BloodlessCarnage: The wounded man Maj. Benton is forced to leave behind is cut down by a fusillade of shots from the pursuing Union troops, with a later report stating he had been shot ten times.However, the only wound visible on his body is the one he started with. Made even more obvious because his shirt is open to the waist.
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* VillainProtagonist: Major Neal Benton and his men are escaped Confederate [=POWs=] who flee to Canada and then plan a raid across the border into St. Albans, Vermont, to rob its banks to replenish the Confederate treasury and burn buildings as revenge for Sherman's March to the Sea and to tie up the Union forces.
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* EnterStageWindow: Larry has the habit of sneaking back into the boarding house his mother runs via the window of the room she rents to Benton. It is while doing this that he discovers Benton in his Confederate uniform as he prepares to lead the raid.
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* {{Auction}}: St. Albans holds an auction of captured Confederate items to raise money for the local company of troops. Capt. Foster and Benton both bid for a Confederate flag: Foster because he never had the opportunity to collect any battle souvenirs of his own, and Benton because he is an undercover Confederate operative and does not want the flag in Yankee hands. Benton eventually raises the bidding to a point where Foster cannot follow .However, at this point, Katy Price steps in and trumps Benton's bid. Not wanting to bid against her, Benton withdraws.Katy buys the flag and makes it a gift to Foster.
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Not to be confused with the [[Film/TheRaid 2011 Indonesian action film of the same name]].
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* HandGagging: Maj. Benton does this to the sergeant in the commandant's office when and Lt. Keating break-in to steal guns during the escape from the stockade.
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* LeaveBehindAPistol: When Maj. Benton is forced to leave behind a wounded officer who is slowing them down before they cross into Canada, he gives the man a pistol. Rather than kill himself, the officer chooses to shoot at the pursuing Union troops and die in a fusillade of return fire.
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* HandicappedBadass: Despite [[CowardlyLion believing himself to be a coward]], the one-handed Capt. Foster stages a heroic one-man LastStand inside the burning town hall in which he kills multiple raiders and wounds their leader Maj. Benton before being captured.
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* ThrowawayGuns: During his LastStand against the raiders, CowardlyLion Capt. Foster tosses away each revolver as he empties it. {{Justified|Trope}} as he is [[HandicappedBadass missing his left hand]] and so cannot reload during a firefight.
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* CowardlyLion: Capt. Lionel Foster regards himself as a coward; having deliberately gotten himself injured in order to removed from the front lines. However, he stages a heroic one-man LastStand against the raiders: killing several of them despite [[HandicappedBadass only have one hand]].
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* AnArmAndALeg: Capt. Lionel Foster lost his left hand after it was run over by a caisson wheel when he attempted to get himself injured in order to be removed from the front lines.
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* POWCamp: In 1864 during the American Civil War, a group of Confederate prisoners held in a Union prison stockade at Plattsburgh, New York, not many miles from the Canada–US border, escape.
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* RunForTheBorder: The film starts with a group of Confederate prisoners escaping from a POWCamp in Plattsburgh, New York and fleeing across the Canadian border. The film ends with them escaping St. Albans after the raid, just ahead of an arriving Union force. Burning a bridge behind them, they barely elude the Union forces and make a successful getaway to nearby Canada.
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* TakingOverTheTown: On the appointed day, Major Benton in town, and the other raiders at the barn, all don Confederate uniforms, take some citizens hostage, rob the bank's strongbox at gunpoint, burn down the town hall, and gallop north just ahead of an arriving Union force.
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* BankRobbery: In 1864 during the American Civil War, a group of Confederate prisoners held in a Union prison stockade at Plattsburgh, New York, not many miles from the Canada–US border, escape. They head for Montréal, Quebec and then plan a raid across the border into St. Albans, Vermont, to rob its banks to replenish the Confederate treasury.
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* FromDressToDressing: Dwyer puts his handkerchief under Benton's coat to staunch Benton's shoulder wound.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Maj. Benton gets shot in the shoulder by Capt. Foster, but it doesn't slow him down or prevent him from using his arm.
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* SpannerInTheWorks:The raid has to be postponed when two Union platoons ride into St.Albans in their way to Plattsburgh, and the Confederates have to postpone untilthey ride out on Monday.
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* LeeroyJenkins: The hotheaded and trigger-happy Lt. Keating.While escaping the stockade, he shoots one of the sentries on the wall;alerting the Union troops tothe escape.
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* MolotovCocktail: The Confederate soldiers use bottles of Greek fire that burst into flame when smashed to set fire to the town.
* MolotovCocktail: The Confederate soldiers use bottles of Greek fire that burst into flame when smashed to set fire to the town.
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* PlanningWithProps: Maj. Benton makes a model of St. Albans from blocks of wood cut to size to explain the plan for TakingOverTheTown to his men.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Loosely based on a true incident, the St. Albans Raid. However the film made a significant change, turning the raid into an act of revenge for William Tecumseh Sherman's burning of Atlanta.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Loosely based on a true incident, the St. Albans Raid. However the film made a significant change, turning the raid into an act of revenge for William Tecumseh Sherman's burning of Atlanta.Atlanta.
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''The Raid'' is a 1954 American Western film set during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. It stars Creator/VanHeflin, Creator/AnneBancroft, Creator/RichardBoone and Creator/LeeMarvin.
A group of Confederate prisoners escape a Union prison stockade at Plattsburgh, New York and flee into Canada. They head for Montréal and then plan a raid across the border into St. Albans, Vermont. They intend to rob its banks to replenish the Confederate treasury and burn the buildings as revenge for Sherman's March to the Sea and to tie up the Union forces . To get the lay of the land, their leader, Major Neal Benton, spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life--especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
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* PistolWhipping: While escaping the stockade, Lt. Keating slams the commanding officer repeatedly in the head with a rifle butt.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Loosely based on a true incident, the St. Albans Raid. However the film made a significant change, turning the raid into an act of revenge for William Tecumseh Sherman's burning of Atlanta.
A group of Confederate prisoners escape a Union prison stockade at Plattsburgh, New York and flee into Canada. They head for Montréal and then plan a raid across the border into St. Albans, Vermont. They intend to rob its banks to replenish the Confederate treasury and burn the buildings as revenge for Sherman's March to the Sea and to tie up the Union forces . To get the lay of the land, their leader, Major Neal Benton, spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life--especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
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* PistolWhipping: While escaping the stockade, Lt. Keating slams the commanding officer repeatedly in the head with a rifle butt.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Loosely based on a true incident, the St. Albans Raid. However the film made a significant change, turning the raid into an act of revenge for William Tecumseh Sherman's burning of Atlanta.
