so his idea was to move quickly, was also the idea of george washington who sent benedict arnold with thousand men to attack quebec at the same time ethan allen decided without george washington's approval montr. allen was only able to raise 134 men and paying some french 1p a day which is more cash than they usually have, but the french canadians many were unhappy with the british so alan miscalculated and thought he would have more support from the french canadians. he also thought he would have more support from the americans, the new commander of the green mountain boys didn't show up as he expected with the green mountain boys nor did any of the other americans. so basically ethan allen crossed the st. lawrence river at night trying horse ticonderoga and the british garrison under the strong commander with 134 trained troops and 300 mohawk warriors. it was over in about two hours and 45 minutes of wasting ammunition as even now when would point out to bid us the shot at each other out long-range until the indians worked around behind the others hope and ellen had to surre

the only american by any means to believe that french canada would fall like ripe fruit before benedict arnold and his ragtag invasion force. "perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages," he declared. they could not, however, take the place of gunpowder, rations or shoes, all of which were in woefully short supply. accusing the french of their bloody world war i tranches were to learn the limits of the idea of willpower triumphing over everything else. so, washington discovered that his was to b

. >> benedict arnold, here's the deal, sully, i have mouths to feed at home and a job to do.ournalist, i'm an objective journalist. >> brian, is it hard for you? >> yeah, it's hard. i'm getting so much flak on twitter and facebook. i'm getting the wicked crush. >> you're getting murdered. >> it's wicked hard for him. >> don't go to glouser. >> it's hard to sit and talk about new york and new jersey. hey, brian sullivan, i have an issue with his stocks. he was talking about some stocks up the past three weeks. let's talk about long-term performance. you don't win the afc championship in one game, you've got to do it over a series of games. so i hope you consider that when you take a look at the stocks he was touting for new york. >> well, when you have joe bag donuts pharma bankrupt in two years and still own a bank stock that puts your kid through college, then we can talk about long-term. >> brian, my advice to you, mary, when you fight it out, talk about notre dame. >> who won, brian? >> notre dame football the last two years, mary. >> who won this? >> we got to go. you nee

benedict still in very good shape. his voice was strong on saturday. he looks strong and assertive and smiling to the crowd today as they sang out in praise of him and all these cardinals from arnolding day. >> archbishop dolan elevated to cardinal, there have been a whole bunch of stories while you've been there in rome here in the united states about how could this guy be selected pope in the future? i mean, there was -- i think it was an italian newspaper that said that of all the cardinals and the members of the college of cardinals, they regarded this particular guy, dolan, as a real rock star. >> well, you know, i don't think in the american history, we've had a cardinal as magnetic and as charismatic especially in the media age as cardinal dolan. in new york, we're lucky to have now two cardinals, cardinal dolan and cardinal egan and he responded to these questions about him being the rock star for the 21st century in the catholic church by invoking the image of st. peter upon this rock, we shall build the church so we said in that sense, invoking the memory and religiousity of st. peter and his role as the patriarch of this church, he said yes, he kind of laughed at the no