 now you say on page 19 when he was appointed commander-in-chief of the continental congress at the onset of the war he refused any salary asking only to be reimbursed when the war concluded he should have been killed numerous times in battle what happened to valley forge and that cold brutal winner was unbelievable he could have kept it together and the fact he could beat the british was also an incredible i need to get on there's so many so little time teddy roosevelt