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To: bagster

::What’s the significance of Trenton....?::

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Don’t know the signifcance in this context, but Trenton is where Washington headed after crossing the Delaware. He defeated the Hessian troops there.


501 posted on 01/28/2020 6:32:00 PM PST by Bigg Red (WWG1WGA)
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To: Bigg Red
After Trenton, Washington moved around the British troops' encampment by lighting campfires in an imaginary American encampment while he and his army sneaked up to Princeton via a new road. The Princeton attack was a total surprise to the British and a resounding American victory.

Monmouth was not a victory but a stalemate. It should have been a victory, but Charles Lee's attack was repulsed effectively by the British, thus permitting the long British column to safely make its way to New York. Washington dismissed Lee from the battlefield with a few choice words.

504 posted on 01/28/2020 6:37:56 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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