Commander-in-Chief George Washington, and the five-hundred strong Continental Army, cross the Delaware River, march nine miles in a blinding snowstorm to Trenton, New Jersey, and defeats fourteen hundred private mercenaries commanded by Colonel Johann Gottlieb Rall. Washington captures 900 prisoners and badly needed ammunition, food and supplies; the only casualties he suffers are two deaths on the forced march and four wounded during the battle.  The mercenaries had been hired by the Executive (George III) from the German principality of Hesse (adjacent to his ancestral home of Hanover).

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