This week focuses on Cadwalader, the Marines attached to his command, and the additional challenges they would face such as muddy tails, cold weather, and lack of food. We’ll also discuss the Battle of the Assunpink Creek, which one soldier described as, “The bridge looked red as blood, with their killed and wounded and their red coats.”
References
Cadwalader Family Papers, 1623-1962, bulk 1776-1880
Fischer, D. H. (2006). Washingtons crossing. New York: Oxford University Press.
Reed, J. (1884). General Joseph Reed's Narrative of the Movements of the American Army in the Neighborhood of Trenton in the Winter of 1776-77. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
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
“To George Washington from Colonel John Cadwalader, 26 December 1776,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 7, 21 October 1776–5 January 1777, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997, pp. 442–444.]