sometimes very difficult for people to understand of the arrangement of boats and how he engineered that theyhemup so up with the wind determining how they were oriented but with the right angles, that was really the key it, wasn't it? >> it was. this is interesting because or reread thisad material i see something else. embarrassede hand to say that i have just made this really interesting havection that i should years years ago but -- made 0 0 ago. macdonough gets a lot of credit for the way he arranged his plattsburgh bay. macdonough had great difficulty in getting the personnel for his fleet, especially after he decided to build the new brig. was short of men, people didn't want to come up here. considered great service. not a lot of opportunity for prizes. so he was constantly kind of begging for naval personnel and meantime was going to the army and borrowing, you know, folks to fill out his ranks. just so the eagle it happens that remember, they got there five days before the battle. they were still undermanned. one of the lieutenants went to what if i --said they said i'm not giving you