 He was constantly begging the governors of the individual states, send me some food, send me some clothing. I mean, literally, you might think it's a cliche, but he literally, they were blood in the snow because of all the men that had no shoes. The open sores. They were dying of starvation, literally dying of starvation. And Washington had to try and keep them together. Why did this army stay together? Because it ultimately did. I don't think we're giving away too much. We did win the War of Independence. That's where we come to the central figure of this book, George Washington.