Washington is checking to borders of the camp about 3 miles out, making sure there are no redcoats (British solders). He's accompanied by Alexander Hamilton, his right-hand man, and Marquis de Lafayette, but everyone just called him Lafayette for sort, (His good friends call his Laf) a Frenchman who came to America to help with the war. John Laurens was going to come, but he stayed back at camp to help train the new men.

It's a cool morning, enough for the three men's breath to be seen in front of them as they walked over the frozen grass. It was quite, the sun was hardly up, still casting an orange glow over the hills.