one of the important ones was colonel henry knox. colonel john glover's man from massachusetts were manning the boats. there were a lot of sailors, but you have to division commanders, general mills annual green and general john sullivan. they will be leading the two .eparate marches to trenton you have alexander hamilton with the new york artillery. he will be in aid for washington later in the. you also have a young james monroe who would become our fifth president of the united states. you have quite a few of the founding fathers in the army at this point. they had to wait for the artillery and it's about or :00 in the morning on december 26. the army has about a nine mile march ahead of them i think it was john greenwood who wrote about the march and said basically we marched no faster than a 10-year-old could walk and stopping frequently. with numerous halts and starts. it took about four hours to go nine miles. the army divided into two columns. accompanied nathanael greene column that would come from the northeastern end of to

he wrote one on henry knox. a bookstore owner that self educated, and then i just kept going.eing a type a personality, i just kept going. i was focused on early american history. there were these new discoveries. within the first three and a half years, i read 51 thousand -- 51,000 pages. that's just the way i am. colonial, revolutionary, and constitutional history, and the first seven presidential terms. the thing that is really strange that i'm here today is that the one person i would not study -- i studied 46 what i call founding fathers and key contributors to the founding of our nation. was this guyon called alexander hamilton. overbearing, egotistical, monarchist, only cared about rich people. and he's in the area of finance and i can't figure that out. i set it aside and then it was joseph ellis's book, "founding brothers." it has like six founders and it. is a short chapter and i will read this on out to the hamilton. -- alexander hamilton. transforming anything is really difficult. jefferson didn't do this. washington did do this. he did something important, so then