Battle of Trenton
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The Battle of Trenton was a short but pivotal American Revolutionary War battle on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey. After General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware
Battle of Trenton, a 1975 portrait of the battle by H. Charles McBarron Jr.
The Hessian Sketch of the Battle of Trenton
The Passage of the Delaware, an 1819 painting by Thomas Sully now housed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
Cannon at Washington's Crossing Historic Park
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, which occurred on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a complex and surprise military ma
Battle of Trenton
…a short but pivotal American Revolutionary War battle on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey. After General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton the previous night, Washington led the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian auxiliaries garrisoned at Trenton. After a…
Washington Crossing the Delaware, a 19th century painting by George Caleb Bingham depicting Washington and Continental Army troops crossing the river prior to the Battle of Trenton on the morning of December 26, 1776
The cover of Thomas Paine's The American Crisis, published the week before Washington's covert crossing of the Delaware, infused a much-needed sense of optimism into Continental Army troops, who were beginning to doubt their ability to prevail militarily against the British Army, then the largest and most powerful army in the world. It also inspired delegates in the Second Continental Congress, who were troubled by recent Continental Army military defeats.
Reenactors cross the Delaware in Durham boats on December 25, 2005