Moses Little

There's very few tents, like I said a little, a little bit ago.

Uh, one of the, uh, great understatements of the American Revolution, one of the American colonels, a guy named Moses Little, wrote in his diary later on, "The weather was very rainy." [laughs] The British can only go so fast 'cause it's getting, it's getting mucky.

So back over, uh, on the British flagship, the Eagle, Admiral Howe, General Howe's older brother, who's in overall command of the British, actually has dinner and invites two, uh, Sullivan and Stirling, the two American generals, to a pleasant dinner and even tries to talk about peace with them.

Uh, overnight everybody gets soaked on both sides, but the British are in better shape 'cause they have more tents and equipment.

Wednesday, January 24th, pleasant weather for the season.

Uh, Washington's general orders for January 24th continued the reorganization of the Continental Army, grouping regiments into brigades with Colonel Moses Little's regiment in General Nathaniel Green's brigade.

Now, um, we see a lot of whippings, we see a lot of punishment for different things, and I don't know what he was stealing, but one of the things to keep in mind that is ridiculous and has occurred over and over again in battle is not feeding, um, not even paying the soldiers what they were promised.

So if they don't have money, they can't buy food, so they should, in my opinion, they shouldn't have been whipped if they're stealing food because, you know, that's ridiculous.