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If you would like to provide a better transcription you can submit one at: http://www.mountvernon.org/video/send-us-your-transcription/ the decision to defend New York use itself in defense and there was a reconnaissance made by another you know dirt roads lead to basically said that you couldn't defend New York unless you control war see and of course the british lady his gun control see New York is an article or go 3 I'll stone along a arm Washington didn't get it until he got there what she got there and saw arm you know the defense's he began to really were actually starts to right people cellmark got what we doing here at home and what he thinks he's going to do is probably lose but cause so many casualties to the British along the way a series a bunker Hills if you will on Long Island and Manhattan keeper treating all out what doesn't think about is that the British want to and they shouldn't want to they can't plug the top man hand then they've got untracked they've got all 28,000 soldiers 15,000 regulars and others militia tracked they can't get off name never do that I'm why don't they do that and I'm the how brothers really richard is the outro William is the general brothers they also have is is well as the commander of the Army Navy the opportunity to negotiate some former reconciliation and that's there really their highest gold both of them remembers a parliament both of them voted in Parliament against the war they think this is a mistake and what they're going to do was come over and delivers some measures stunning blows to demonstrate to the Americans that there are you can't win and then after they have successfully done that bill to go see an end to the war that's what they want to do and so their goal is not to annihilate the condo army in fact they make decisions not to do that I'm and her the capture the city of New York make it work with two goals not destroy the arm and if they were if general clinton who's second in command was in command is possible the world would have ended right then and there now you don't know what would happen you can't go back and play the tape again well what happened European July and August somewhere that time George Washington was killed or captured his entire army was was you do diluted or captured what would happen they asked Adams that question vs Franklin that question they both said the same thing religious Christian other are and they said what about washed will find another wash now their people like landlord editor the the why some papers who prop 32 there is no other washington to be found up he's dispensable up I too dark you know i think thats true this is a forty two thousand-man force that's coming at them largest to use force effort across the Atlantic larger than the city of philadelphia which is only 30 does so they're outnumbered the good the average like the average experiences the British soldiers seven years you have to experience as an american soldiers loss in six months officer course even worse than a terms a comparison so both in the terrain and in terms of the quality the army its essentially hopeless situation for washington he wants to make it into a series of the gauge mints like Parker Hill in which you inflict heavy casualties on the British doesn't work out that way because went out again writes John and says what happened we can get the right reports in the paper maybe because the newspapers didn't report to defeat a red 17 newspapers they are reported as an american victory its treasonable to be truthful own up heat but she says what happened and adam says to her in general our generals were out Joe I'm and that includes Washington however the experiences New York which he continues to be obsessed with throughout the rest of the world makes him realize for the first time what kind of work he can fight and where and what kind of were you should not try if I them with I'm is called the world posts that's what they call it means only contesting in want to rain and its tactical situations in which you have superiority an escape grow it means a protracted war and it's based 11 seminal strategic insight he doesn't have to win how many great generals don't figure that out hannibal didn't figure that out napoleon didn't figure that out Robert E Lee didn't figure that out they all lose Washington is not tactically as good as any of those channels but he gets the overall strategic insight right and he wins or the British decide to leave them and been and they lose in that sense of the term and a.m. and that's what makes him a great military a if they destroy the Continental Army demographically there's a bit 200,000 males between the ages of 15 50 reducer so we have the demographic resources to respond what's unclear is how deep the political will was in the countryside that is tough to measure very tough to measure if they had destroy the Army in an offer generous terms i think is a very real possibility that a lot of people would have supported that settler tennis on and then you would have created the British Commonwealth a hundred years early century that's what you've done