. American history:. FOKTS LKE .\NI> Part III.] EVENTS OF 1776. 363 ishing by the withdrawal of large numbers of the militia,who, dispirited by the late reverses, returned to theirhomes, as fast as their terms of enlistmtmt expired ; sothat, by the last of November, scarcely three thousandtroops remained in the American army; and these wereexposed in an open country, without intrenching tools, andwithout tents to shelter them from the inclemency of theseason. 33. Newark,* New Brunswick,! Princeton,:j: andTrenton, successively fell into the hands of the enemy,as they were aband
. American history:. FOKTS LKE .\NI> Part III.] EVENTS OF 1776. 363 ishing by the withdrawal of large numbers of the militia,who, dispirited by the late reverses, returned to theirhomes, as fast as their terms of enlistmtmt expired ; sothat, by the last of November, scarcely three thousandtroops remained in the American army; and these wereexposed in an open country, without intrenching tools, andwithout tents to shelter them from the inclemency of theseason. 33. Newark,* New Brunswick,! Princeton,:j: andTrenton, successively fell into the hands of the enemy,as they were abandoned by the retreating army ; andfinally, on the eighth of December, Washington crossedthe Delaware, then the only barrier which prevented theBritish from taking possession of Philadelphia. So rap-idly had the pursuit been urged, that the rear of theone army was often within sight and shot of the van ofthe other. 34. ^Congress, then in session at Philadelphia, ad-journed to Baltimore,§ and soon after invested* Wash-ington with almost unlimited powe
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