The battle of Trenton

      On Thursday, December 26, 1776,  Washington began to withdraw his army across New Jersey toward Philadelphia. Washington was going to cross the Delaware river and surprise attack the Hessians. It took Washingtons army almost 24 hours to cross the river, when Washingtons army attacked they caught the Hessians by surprize and took out many of them, the Hessians were outnumbered and surrounded they had no choice but to surrender.

If you can look at the first picture, the picture shows you the Colonist crossing river. Although it was very hard to ship all the colonist army over night in small amount of shift, The Colonist won the battle of Trenton

Greatly, the Colonist won this battle because the General George Washington took his soldiers in the Christmas night  and  defeat the Hessians at the morning.