yon henry knox was only 25. he had blown off part his hand in a hunting accident. he was a big velo, a bookseller in washington who became the commander in artillery and all he knew about the military, all that he ever could claim to know is what he had read in books. but we have to keep in mind this was a period, 18th-century, age of enlightenment when people believed reading books was a good way to learn things. [laughter] and they are -- they are splendid dix samples of that faith. washington had this capacity to spot talent and he also had great capacity to see things as they were and not as he wished they were. this is extremely important. he was a man of phenomenal physical courage and moral courage and he had a splendid one almost say extraordinary good health and through the course of this year when men all around him including dream for example took il's, many took ill serious and light from many diseases. disease would take many lives in the revolutionary war than what musket balls or cannon fire. the diet of typhoid, they died of my millennia, they died