 So the British, Howe takes New York City easily, but now he has a new problem. He has thousands of prisoners and he doesn't know what to do with them. They're not going to build prisons because the British believe the war will be over in a matter of days or weeks or months at the most. After all, Washington's on the run and his army's depleted and Howe has most of his army prisoner. So they're trying to figure out what they do about all these prisoners. And then they have an idea.