Colonial Forces Cross the Delaware and Attack British Garrison at Trenton in Daring Christmas Night Raid

The Founder’s Blog 12/24/2011

TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.

Head-Quarters, Newtown, 27 December, 1776. Sir,

I have the pleasure of congratulating you upon the success of an enterprise, which I had formed against a detachment of the enemy lying in Trenton, and which was executed yesterday morning. The evening of the 25th I ordered the […]

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