A Gamble for Liberty: Washington’s Surprise Attack on Christmas Night 1776
By the winter of 1776, the American Revolution was hanging by a thread. Washington’s army had been battered, outmaneuvered, and humiliated in New York. Forced into retreat, they had fled across New Jersey and now found themselves camped on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River, cold, hungry, and demoralized. Many of Washington’s soldiers were …