When [george washington] left the stricken city, he had put secretary of war henry knox in charge of the government, giving the former general clear instructions to report to him weekly concerning the spread of yellow fever. but after a few days' close contact with the pestilence, knox found that his warrior instinct had abandoned him. he closed up his house and fled across new jersey to manhattan island. knox was turned away from manhattan and wound up in elizabethtown, new jersey, where he spent two weeks in quarantine. he did write to washington, telling the president that the militia was out all over new jersey hunting for fever victims, and that manhattan was in a state of panic over the possibility that the fever would visit there. but he provided no useful information about the fever in philadelphia. —the american plague, jim murphy is this sentence an example of direct or indirect characterization? "knox found that his warrior instinct had abandoned him." based on the author's characterization, what is henry knox like?