he brings his army to new jersey in order between the british army and no adelphia. 80 miles or so across new jersey. he gets to "crossroads of the revolution," december 1st and 2nd in 1776. keep in in new jersey for almost a month before that. crosses over into pennsylvania in order to keep between him and the british and philadelphia. his big concern was the british would take philadelphia before the end of the campaign season. the 18th century armies generally didn't buy it in the winter. even though it was december, maybe they'll try to push a few more weeks and take philadelphia. he didn't go to pennsylvania and the british took over other central new jersey, including trenton and established their winter quarters here. they decided not to go on to philadelphia until spring. of course then it's washington coming back and attacking those winter quarters in late december 76. king george and boyden aren't in the british hierarchy had wanted to finish the war in a year than they have anticipated a january 1st, 1777 he was going to be -- they're not going to have to worry about it anymore