Cecily Zander

And he, unlike George Washington, hadn't been a sort of disaster in his first few outings as a military leader.

I mean, Washington and the Indian Wars, that is not a record that you want to run on.

If you want to be the general of the Continental Army, Charles Lee, extremely successful fighting for the British in the Seven Years' War.

He had also gone and fought for the Polish army during some of the sort of European wars at the end of the 18th century.

And he comes back to the United States.

He's a really powerful figure.

He has a ton of military experience.

He has important friends.

He has pedigree.

And he thinks that the Continental Army would be correct or the Continental Congress would be correct in choosing him to be the leader of the Continental Army.

I think, yeah, I think Washington is is just better known to them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's sort of New York campaign.

He's he's sort of taken prisoner.

He's writing to Washington.

He's writing to sort of important congressional leaders saying, can you help get me out?

Can we get some kind of prisoner exchange going?

And they just kind of ignore him, which I think he takes as a real slight.