robert morris, nathaniel greene, william dunlap, patrick mchenry -- we can go on and on. now how many women can you name who were important figures? >> abigail adams -- [inaudible] [laughter] >> betsy ross -- >> wait, wait. okay. abigail adams, martha washington, margaret corbin, betsy ross we aren't going to get up to ten, are we? [inaudible] [laughter] >> that is another issue. [laughter] >> she would have an interest in memoir. however, the point is that there were at least -- there were a million women at least who were witnesses or involved in the american revolution. but we don't know that much about them and the accounts that we have from those that are left, and this is a perfect example, they are very scant. there's only a few. we know for instance there were women spies and the women when the british were marching up we know american patriot women followed them to keep them that we only have -- aside from the women that you mentioned -- and this was a frustration to me so i use curious kid i said to have to be more accounts and correspondence and that is how i began writing the book. the other one is coincidence, and a coincidence and, incidental in my research there were two