So what that means is that as early as the spring of 1811, madison was considering very seriously the need to go to war with Great Britain. And this is seven months before the 12th congress and the war hawks even meet in washington. They would continue with these policies for as long as it took r took for them to end this abomination of the affairs of europe. Now, this was 1811. In 1811, nobody was predicting that Napoleon Bonaparte would be gone. You might have made that prediction after 1812 and 1813, but in 1811, nobody was kournting kourn counting on napoleon going away any time soon. He decided he had no other option than to prepare for war against Great Britain. It took this decision weeks and weeks before congress knew what policies that might have to pass judgment. Maybe its spoke man worked its way through committees and votes and the house of representatives as congress prepared for war in the First Six Months of november late after november of 1811. But the primary movement