washington, henry knox in charge of the continental artillery. others, they wanted to continue the attack toward brunswick, new jersey, because they knew in brunswick. that is where the british were holding charles lee, who had been captured earlier and had 70,000 pounds of sterling in a war chest that washington critically needed. but his men have reached what, we call, the culminating point. a culminating point is that point that if you go beyond it, you will start to have diminishing returns. it could turn victory into a defeat. his men have been up for over 40 hours, no sleep. many of them had no shoes. you've heard the stories about being able to track their progress through the bloodstream teams on the on the snow covered ground. so washington made the wise choice instead of continuing to attack up to brunswick, he takes a left instead of a right, and he goes up to morristown new jersey where he establishes winter quarters and begins what's called the forge war against the british. the british had abandoned eastern new jersey and are holdin