During this week’s episode, we discuss the battle of Trenton. It was Christmas time and General Washington was guarding Philadelphia against British forces opposite of his men on the Delaware River. With a snowstorm, lack of intelligence, outnumbered, and with most of his men’s enlistment expiring in a week, General Washington attacks the Hessians at Trenton.
References
Robert Morris to Richard Henry Lee, 29 December 1776, Lee Papers, University of Virginia.
Stryker, W. S. (1898). Battles of trenton and princeton. New York: Houghton, Mifflin.
Smith, C. R., & Waterhouse, C. H. (1975). Marines in the Revolution: a history of the Continental Marines in the American Revolution, 1775-1783. Washington: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps.
Tucker, P. T. (2016). George Washingtons surprise attack: a new look at the battle that decided the fate of America. New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing.