 Now, what is about to happen is one of those moments you wish you could share with every American. It's almost as if the story is too good to be true, and yet it is true, because in the midst of the smoke, Fitzgerald could make out a figure on horseback. It was George Washington. He was completely unscathed. Once again, he seemed protected from the bullets, just like at the Monongahela, and he cried out to Fitzgerald, and I quote, "'Away, my dear colonel! Bring up the troops! The day is our own!'