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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