While the Congress was deeply grateful for the victory at Saratoga they were, at that moment, exiled from the relative comforts of Philadelphia to a tiny burg across the Susquehanna known as Yorktown, inhabited by mostly German speaking imigrants.
Among their discomforts was the lack of a suitable house of worship. The local Anglican church was pastored by a loyalist so fierce that he had entered into a conspiracy to turn the colonial munitions over to the British; and every other church had its services and sermons in the foreign tongue, German.
Nevetheless, in the midst of these adversities, they gave thanks.
Great history lesson!
Thank you!