 and more than could be reasonably expected. But your country is at stake, your wives, your houses, and all that you hold dear. You've worn yourselves out with fatigues and hardships. Washington admitted, and I quote, we know not how to spare you. But he finished appealing to their patriotism, their devotion to their country, and said, and I quote, if you will consent to stay one month longer, you will render that service to the cause of liberty and to your country, which you probably never can do under any other circumstances.