Major Jonathan Bratton

That is incredibly impressive.

And so when we look at operations around Valley Forge, which to us, you know, our mind is like, oh no, bad, Valley Forge, horrific starvation.

It would have been a whole hell of a lot worse had Green not been in charge of providing forage and sustenance to that army, as well as he conducts a grand forage, 1777 to 1778, I believe, which is essentially a combined arms operation to go out and seize food and fight the British for it if they find them.

So he's given this independent command, and that's going to serve him very well when Washington taps him again and says, hey, so here's another part of the war that screwed up that I need you to take over in the South.

We don't give Green... Well, I think modern historians do give Green sort of enjoying a comeback moment.

But really, when Green moves further and further away from the cities, what he's doing is... And he's deliberately doing river crossings and seizing all boats, everything around him.

So this...

He understands that rivers in the South are key to mobility.

And all he has to do is not lose his army.

He can lose battles.

He can't lose his army.

By drawing Cornwallis away from his base of supplies and continuously pushing him, pushing his army to the point where it's nearing collapse, where it's in the middle of the backcountry nowhere in North Carolina.

And Cornwallis goes, you know what?

Screw this.

I can't.

I've been fighting here for too long.

I'm not making a difference.

I have to go to Virginia.

That's where the true source of the Continental Army is.

Also, I can't march anywhere else.