Ken Burns

And that's, to me, what makes a good story.

Like, how is it that he can be tactically so wrong in two extraordinary places?

He's also very rash, Joe.

He runs out at Kipps Bay, which is halfway up Manhattan.

After he's lost the Battle of Long Island, he's now abandoning New York or he's taking a good number of his men up to Harlem.

And at Kips Bay, which is sort of midtown on the East River, there's a battle and we're just being rolled up.

And he comes charging onto the battlefield and his aides are going crazy and they're grabbing the reins of his horse.

He's going to be killed.

If he's killed, that's it.

right?

And then later on at the Battle of Princeton, he does the same thing, and one aide puts his hands over his face thinking, I cannot watch my commander-in-chief be killed.

And in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse in New Jersey, he rides out and just is very present, turns what is a retreat of continental soldiers and militiamen into steadying their lines and basically holding their own against the prime, the elite of the British army.

And it's

Where does that come from?

Who does that?

How did we do it?

And from the very beginning.

Everybody knew you needed a Virginian.

The New Englanders where the war started – the war is a symphony in three movements, right?

The New England is the first movement, central states and then the southern states.