this is a real effort to go and recapture louie borg. the back ground shirleyy is able to convince the assembly. first of all it is a very close vote. allegedly. it was a tie vote. the guy who was, the last guy voted for, there was another guy that was going to vote against the expedition and he was coming to vote and he broke his leg in the carriage. i don't mknow if that story is true or not but good story. but we do know he had good intelligence. we knew morale was low. in fact at one point they had a mutiny. it was considered entirely okay if you didn't get paid for a certain amount of time, the mutiny was like, i'm not doing anything until you pay me. so the french garrison had low morale if you had high morale you may be willing to wait longer for your pay. so shirley knew this so he was able to authorize the expedition. he needs a leader for the expedition. he already talked to peter warren who he got the word back from him. he's like i'd like to help but i need the king to buy into this and i don't have that yet. so shirley is wi