Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease, and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord. Plutarch. Plutarch’s Lives:...

In less than two weeks, on December 1, the enlistments of 2.000 of his troops would be up, the free to go. It was the same nightmare prospect he had faced at Boston exactly a year before, and with the misery of the men greater now than ever, and morale suffering, there seemed every chance that his army would evaporate before his eyes.

“We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged.” - Col. Henry Knox

At the ferry landing all this time troops and supplies and artillery were being loaded aboard one boat after another as quickly as humanly possible and sent on their way. Everyone worked furiously. A Connecticut soldier manning one of the boasts would remember making eleven crossings in the course of the night.