This is Jockel Podcast number 353 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willik. Good evening, echo. Good evening.

My brave fellows

You have done all I asked you to do and more than can be reasonably expected

But your country is extinct

Your wives your houses and all that you hold dear

You have worn worn yourselves out with fatigues and hardships

But we know not how to spare you

If you will consent to stay one month longer you will render that service to the cause of liberty and to your country

Which you probably can never do under any other circumstances

And that right there was a

quote from

George Washington

Encouraging his men to reenlist in the army and he made that speech on

Tuesday, December 31st

1776 this was less than a week after the

successful attack at Trenton and

Great victory for Washington's army the one that everybody knows about crossing the Delaware River and

And able to achieve this victory, but the men had suffered greatly

Prior to that they had lost the battle of white planes in October

The battle at Fortes Washington in November their uniforms when you when you read about what condition they were in

They were just in tatters and rags at this point. Some of them didn't have shoes

By the way, December in the Northeast

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