 Amanda, I have the same questions you do. I don't know what our nation is doing. I totally support Israel. And now it's time for military history. What's first, Skip? Well, Colonel, on 17 July 1776, the Continental Congress learned of General George Washington's refusal to accept a dispatch from British General William Howe and his brother, Admiral Richard Viscount Howe, opening peace negotiations because it failed to use the title General.