Shiloa Rivera
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- In November 16
- In mid-December 1776
- The Battle of Trenton
- The British overran Fort Washington in Manhattan, taking 2,000 Americans prisoner.
- Before December 30th, at a camp
- Washington led his army south across the Delaware River
- On New Year’s Day
- Rall attempted to rally his troops but was never able to establish a defensive perimeter, and was shot from his horse and fatally wounded. The Hessians quickly surrendered.
- January 3, 1777
- Realizing his men could not hold Trenton against British reinforcements, Washington withdrew across the Delaware.
- Washington deployed 500 men to keep the campfires going while the rest of his troops made a nighttime march north to Princeton while Cornwallis thought he had him trapped.
- Washington sent a small force under General Hugh Mercer to destroy a bridge. Mercer’s men encountered Redcoats under Lt. Col. Charles Mawhood and Mercer was killed in the fighting. Arriving militiamen under Col. Cadwalader had little effect. Then Washington arrived, riding between the firing lines until his terrified horse refused to go on. The Americans rallied and broke through Mawhood's lines.
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