The battles in the Jerseys and the significance of each . n; weBee the quiel preparation, the crisp frost, ! boats, the high wind, the Bwift current,the floating ice, the exhausted boatmen, the ill-clad soldiers with their faces bent to the storm, and thesilent night march. We see the sentinels driven in,the Continentals advancing at quick step throughthe empty streets, the confusion of the bewilderedHessians and the fall of their ill-starred com-mander. The value of this victory was not limited to thecapture of a thousand Hessian prisoners and tothe shattering of the popular superst
The battles in the Jerseys and the significance of each . n; weBee the quiel preparation, the crisp frost, ! boats, the high wind, the Bwift current,the floating ice, the exhausted boatmen, the ill-clad soldiers with their faces bent to the storm, and thesilent night march. We see the sentinels driven in,the Continentals advancing at quick step throughthe empty streets, the confusion of the bewilderedHessians and the fall of their ill-starred com-mander. The value of this victory was not limited to thecapture of a thousand Hessian prisoners and tothe shattering of the popular superstition of theirsupposed invincibility. This victory wrought amarvelous effect on the heart of every patriotthroughout the entire country. And after all is said, the greatest significanceof the surprise at Trenton I count to be this, thatit saved George Washington to the Continentalarmy and to the American people. The mostdecisive event in Washingtons public career washis crossing of the Delaware. It convinced theAmerican people that he was the right ?V^^^T^-WS^ • Monument of Cannon BallsCollected and Erected on Battlefield of Princeton in
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