Washington Crosses the Delaware on Christmas Night, 1776

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Washington Crosses the Delaware on Christmas Night, 1776

 Posted by Kemberlee Kaye    Monday, December 25, 2017 at 5:30pm

Or as some call it, America’s first Christmas

Before America was free of the chains of unrepresented, overtaxed tyranny, we had to best the greatest army in the world.

In a make or break moment for the Revolutionary War, General George Washington concocted a plan to cross the Delaware River and lead a surprise attack on the Hessians camped around Trenton, New Jersey. A victory in Trenton would boost morale, Washington reasoned.

A rash of “false alarms” and the arrival of a nasty winter storm put the Hessians, who’d been warned of the possibility of an attack, at ease. And off to sleep, they went. Many for the last time.        

  https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/12/washington-crosses-the-delaware-on-christmas-night-1776/