 that it was the hand of providence that came through there were a bunch of times by the way that that happened to him during more than 20 of his troops the french indian death that night yeah during the french indian wars there were a number of times where washington was shot out when he was riding horse and they would go through his petticoat and they would go through the coat and he would come out and there would be bullet holes from the shot from the grape shot that went through and it never hit him and it never hit him and the indians would tell stories of