This episode continues the introduction to the book with a review of the five main themes of significant events during the Gulph Mills Encampment: 1) the problems arising from the British Army's occupation of nearby Philadelphia, 2) where would George Washington and the Continental Army go for winter quarters and would they engage in one more battle against the British before they did, 3) could the Continental Congress implement a victorious way forward and also formulate the new government that the army was fighting for, 4) would Ben Franklin and his two other American Commissioners in France convince the French King Louis XVI to formally and diplomatically recognize the new United States, and 5) would the government and people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provide the necessary support for the Continental Army, which was now in its backyard? The answers to all of these questions were very uncertain at the start of December 1777.