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.
