so i looked at caesar rodney in some detail in the book, and i discovered that not only is there thisegend of rodney being ill, but also there is a legend of caesar rodney having gone home to delaware to care for his very ill wife. and what i found was that caesar rodney never married, so he wasn't -- [laughter] he wasn't at home caring for his wife. and also common he had not had a stroke. in fact, he lived for a few more years. he was in good health. he was actually the speaker of the house of the delaware legislature. and the delaware legislature has not permitted his congressman to vote for independent. and he went home in early june to fight to get the legislature to change its mind and permit its congressman to vote for independence. he succeeded in that. he was also a colonel in the militia in delaware. and while he was home, there was a huge loyalist uprising.

so i looked at caesar rodney in some detail in the book, and i discovered that not only is there this legend of rodney being ill, but also there is a legend of caesar rodney having gone home to delaware to care for his very ill wife. .. to fight to get the legislature to change its mind and permit the congressman to the fur independence and succeed for that. he was also a colonel in the militia in delaware and while he was home there was a huge loyalist uprising and so he sent several days out in the field suppressing that loyalist uprising and the story that was told many times, sort of embellish in 1776 is that after the debate on july 1st, just overnight, his colleagues in congress who also supported independence paid for a courier to ride down to delaware and fetch anthony and he came by. it stretches credulity that that could happen. it is a 60 mile ride from philadelphia down there by horseback. he had to find rodney and rodney had to make a 60 mile ride back and it was a stormy night. he probably could not have done it in the eight for nine hours that all of this supposedly too

of rodney being ill but also there is a legend of caesar rodney having gone home to delaware to care for his very ill wife and what i found is that rodney never married, so he wasn't -- [laughter] wasn't at home caring for his wife. and also, he had not had a stroke for a few more years he was in good health, he was actually the speaker of the house on the delaware legislature and the delaware legislature had not permitted to vote for independence and he went home in early june to fight to get the legislature to change its mind and permit its congress of independence and succeeded in that. he was also a colonel in delaware, and while he was home there was a huge list uprising. so he spent several days out in the field suppressing that loyalist uprising and the story that was told many times as sort of intelligence 1776 is that after the debate on july 1st, so overnight, his colleague in the congress who also supported independence paid for the courier to write it down to delaware and he came riding back. the credulity that that could happen a 50-mile ride from philadelphia down there