This is an automated transcription. Mount Vernon cannot guarantee the accuracy or quality of the transcription. If you would like to provide a better transcription you can submit one at: http://www.mountvernon.org/video/send-us-your-transcription/ well here how is real responsible for what happens he would be he would receive accolades worried too terminated the rebellion in 1776 and the fact that he didn't think he is in fact culpable now there are very good reasons for him doing what he does not doing what he doesn't do is cut supply issues of the first order he's trying to raise an expeditionary warfare of a sort that really has not been waged probably since the Romans and he's got to bear in mind that the transport of horses across the north atlantic in stormy weather is impossibly difficult the transport of the forage cause he's having trouble getting forage in America for those sources is very very difficult the supply of his soldiers is very much tied to the bases his God on the American littoral first in Boston and New York and the farther he ventures away from those supply dumps and magazines the more difficult and more exposed the years so his rather language progress across New Jersey i think is in part explained by his supply concerns is also a man who constitutionally i think is extraordinary optical to the point ploy it's one job to jobs jobs sequentially he's not a great captain I and so you know you see him allow Washington to get away Brooklyn where violation possibility for the Americans you see you know he's whittle down that american forces to 3,000 men by the time they reach the delaware and yeah that's three thousand men that obviously form the basis for an extraordinary stroke by Washington and so i think you know you have to say okay I understand what how is doing and why he's doing it and yet a boulder or more creative or aggressive general who was intent on exterminating the revolution when he could fails to do it