troops to fight against napoleon by smuggling gold across the english channel, financing the duke of wellington's troops. and in the 20th century, the rocks trials were one of the finance years of the suez canal. why and how did one family get so entrenched in foreign affairs? you know, generation after generation after generation. you know, it's, i don't think it's a surprise. what a surprise us me think about the nature of what the british empire, what it was, it controlled about a quarter of the world's land land mass had at as high as peak. right. that included in the, the commonwealth countries, canada, australia mean these obviously major land masses, but that's if you're, if you're in twined with the bank of england. if you're one of the major banking houses of england at that time, of course, you're going to get access to all the empire. and that's actually where the relationship seems to have started with this. a rhodes, who was one of the great impaired british imperialists of the late 19th century when he went to south africa, a few people sort of to be yours. for example. that's basic