Sunday, August 3, 2014

Washington Crossing

Washington Crossing
            If you are ever in the northern Philadelphia area please take the time to check out Washington Crossing.  General Washington took a heavy risk by marching in bad snow weather and attacking Hessian positions at Trenton, New Jersey.  After defeats in Brooklyn, Kip’s Bay, Harlem, Fort Lee and Fort Washington and then retreating to New Jersey, things looked desperate for the Continental Army.  Washington’s message to himself proclaimed: “Victory or death!” 
            Some writers have said that there were no deaths in the crossing but evidence seems to contradict those statements.  The fact that there is a cemetery with 23 Patriots buried (22 unidentified and one James Moore) speaks to the fact that people died at least in the encampment. 



           


 

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