During the battle for Fort William Henry the English commander doesn't allow colonials to leave when their homes are attacked by a war party.

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HAWKEYE

... got no kin in the settlements. If I did, I'd be long gone.

IAN

You didn't think it right to be here in the first place.

HAWKEYE

By my light that's how I saw it then and I see it that way now ...

IAN

But we are under English military authority.

JACK

I believe if they set aside their law as and when they wish, their law no longer has rightful authority over us. All they have over us is tyranny, then. And I'll stay here no longer. No force on earth will keep me here ... Anyone caught leavin' the fort could be shot. So each man make your own decision ... Those who are goin', be back here in an hour.

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What Jack says fits right in with what the Democrats are doing to us nowadays.

So each man make your own decision.