In 1776, one of the most popular and well known founding fathers led the fight for independence in the royal colonies. In David Hackett Fischer’s book, “Washington’s Crossing”, he describes the troubles and even the unknowns of Washington’s experiences during the Revolutionary War. Fischer goes into detail about the first approach of the British as their massive naval fleet surrounds the state of New York all the way up to the point when the British became the defensive force rather than the offensive. “Washington’s Crossing” illustrates how the American Revolution wasn’t just pure success as at the beginning of the war, the Americans took many losses that almost completely crushed the revolution entirely. However, eventually the tides would …show more content…
He was a professor for fifty-five years before he retired. While Fischer was still a professor, he taught in the history department with courses ranging from The American Revolution to World War II. He is most well known for writing Washington’s Crossing. He has won multiple awards for the book as well including the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2005 and the Irving Kristol Award in 2006.
Fischer starts “Washington’s Crossing” by stating the initial challenges and failures that the American’s and Washington in particular had to face at the time. After the British were pushed from Boston, many believed that they had won the war and that was the end of the revolution. However, Washington knew that it wasn’t over and that there was more to come and that it wasn’t going to be a simple
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Fischer states that the remaining soldiers were made up of groups of state militias. As the Americans are becoming more and more discouraged, Thomas Paine writes another article called “The American Crisis”. Fischer claims that this article put the spirit back into many Americans and some went up in arms once again. As the cold winter months approached, Washington had a plan. On Christmas night, December 25, 1776; Washington would move his troops across the Delaware River. As dawn approached, he and his army would attack Trenton with all the force that they had at the time. The author stated that Washington had thought the battle was already lost because they would lose the element of surprise as the weather slowed them down which was pushing them into the daylight. According to Fischer, Washington and his army arrived to Trenton at around seven-thirty in the morning. They succeeded in using the element of surprise and the weather helped the colonial army and they took Trenton. Once Trenton was taken, The British planned an immediate counter to the Americans and planned to take Trenton back. Thus the battle for the bridge at Assunpink Creek, also known as the Battle of the Assunpink Creek, started. However, the Americans once again were successful against the British and Hessians. General Washington further marched his army towards Princeton but still wanted to
In the book of His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis, the author introduces Washington, the Father of the United States, in a fresh portrait focused on the characters of Washington. This book is an impressive biography of Washington's remarkable dedication to the United States history. According to the author, George Washington is an omnipresent figure as he was growing up, described as the man in the moon who was aloof and silent. This book focuses on Washington's wartime service which became some of his major contributions to the United States, rather than merely telling the true story of Washington, its main thesis is focusing on analyzing his contributions and how his governorship had affected the American history. Washington's life is divided into three areas in this book.
To conduct his assault he would cut off any possible Hessian routes of retreat and seize key terrain to gain a tactical advantage. He posted MG James Ewing would take a ferry with his 700 militia and assume control over the bridge to over Assunpink Creek. Washington also assault a poorly garrisoned outpost on the northwest side of Trenton. Finally, Washington gained control of the high ground overlooking the town for his gun placements to effectively target Hessian ranks. These conditions that General Washington created are what help lead to the Continental victory.
Knowing Britain 's force was stronger George Washington came up with a plan to escape from the redcoats. His plan was to go around the side of Cornwallis’s camp instead of reversing the way he came in by crossing the river into Trenton. General Cornwallis new Washington 's
You will learn about the battle plans and strategies of each side and finally the outcome. I’ve written and alternate outcome of the battle and placed this additional portion after the reference page. The Battle of Trenton During the American Revolution, the British contracted
The book 1776 of David McCullough is very interesting history book. It took you back to the most relevant history time of American history of 1776. The book captures your attention with well-written narrative and format. The New york Times reviewed the book as “ the book is nonetheless a stirring and timely work, reminding us that it is soldiers rather than tavern patriots and windy politicians who have always paid the price of American idealism and determined successes” in 2005. David McCullough is a native Pennsylvanian.
Washington wanted to have this war because his army was falling apart and everyone was leaving, so he wanted to have a victory to hold his army together. The battle of Trenton was an element of surprise for the Germans. George Washington set out to cross the Delaware River with American men, British, and anyone that came because everyone
Washington and his men faced a cold, violent, and victorious battle when they rowed across the icy Delaware. The brave continentals were determined to attain a victory against their overpowering enemy. On December 25th, 1776, the valiant General Washington and his heroic crew conquered the Hessian army. The painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutze, and the poem, “Washington Crossing the Delaware”, by David Shulman, highlight this essential and crucial moment of the American Revolution. Although the artists depict this event in two different ways, with two different perspectives, their works share more similarities because of their use of vivid imagery and their portrayal of General Washington.
On Christmas night 1776 Washington crossed the Delaware river. In 1781 he helped to plan the battle that led to the British defeat at Yorktown, Virginia and the overall defeat of the British army. Washington was an advocate of the federal government so he became the chairman of the Constitutional Convention and
General George Washington had a very important decision to make that had the possibility of completely ending the revolutionary war, or saving it. Washington was in a very tough situation. The men’s enlistment contracts were getting close to expiring, the amount of food and supplies were low, and the morale of all of his troops was extremely low. Something needed to happen to get the Americans back on track. Washington decided to march to Trenton and Princeton late in the war to fight the British, and it paid off.
With extensive research, it is believed that the two battles that Washington and the Continental army won that counted against the British was the Battle of Trenton (1776) and the Battle of Yorktown (1781). The reasoning for why the Battle of Trenton would be one of the Battles to truly matter is first due to actually winning it. The second reason is due to the dismal outlook for the Continental army at the time. This is due to the falling of Fort Washington and Fort Lee, where in Fort Lee the evacuation was so slow, the British were able to seize items such as cannons, muskets, and other supplies. The loss of these forts along with more of Washington's men succumbing to illness and other various ailments along with the cold, the Continental
This battle took place after a demoralizing defeat at Long island. George Washington was forced to retreat all the way across New Jersey back in Pennsylvania. Due to the cold and harsh winter and the defeats in the previous wars, the Continental Army was one the verge of abandoning the rebellion act. Therefore George Washington needed to find something to build up the spirit in his troops. As such he then decides to cross back over the Delaware River and attack the Hessians (German hired troops) at Trenton, New Jersey.
The Washington Crossing the Delaware is a well-known painting representing American history. It shows the night of December 25th to 26th, 1776, when General George Washington led his revolutionary troops across the Delaware River. They planned to surprise and attack the Hessian and British troops outside of Trenton, New Jersey. It is about twelve feet high and twenty-one feet long, being one of the largest pictures in the Metropolitan Museum. This painting reminds Americans of the revolutionary troop’s struggle for American
April 1776, fresh from their victory of boston, the contiental army sent the british army running, which will lead to a bigger war, because america wants independence, the british will come back with a more effective blow. New york was the place that would put this war to an end. New york was the location that settles the score. If the bristish win, it would end the war, if the colonist win, indepence will commence. An immigrant from england named thomas payne creating a best selling how to make a revoulution.
To say Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow is a masterpiece would simply be an understatement. With high praise from nearly all readers of this novel, and encouraged the start of its own Broadway Run on August 6, 2015, it is no surprise this biography catches the eye of many. Not to be confused with the play rendition of this book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Despite this book being “cringey” at times due to the documentation of Hamilton’s hot headed behaviors, it’s interesting to see how Hamilton created so much for our country, but yet seems to always be behind the spotlight. This is especially shown when Hamilton assisted George Washington in nearly everything he did, and was his “right hand man”, for lack of a better term.
This painting shows George Washington, then a general in the American Revolutionary War, crossing the Delaware River with his troops on the night of Dec. 25, 1776. The crossing immediately advanced Washington 's surprise attack on the Hessian forces in the Battle of Trenton. Although the painting portrays a historic part of the American Revolution, it was spuriously painted by Emanuel Leutze, an artist born in Germany. Moreover, where the original was actually painted.