Enlightenment · North America · War
1776
Washington Crosses the Delaware
December 26, 1776
On a sleet-lashed Christmas night, Washington ferried 2,400 men across ice-choked water and marched on Trenton. He caught the Hessian garrison asleep after Christmas celebrations and took the town in 45 minutes. A single small victory resurrected a dying revolution. Enlistments that had been expiring were quietly renewed, and the army that had been melting away in despair suddenly believed it could survive the winter.
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- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations · Europe · Culture
- Declaration of Independence · North America · Politics
- Paine's Common Sense · North America · Politics
- Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Europe · Culture
- Virginia Declaration of Rights · North America · Politics
- Bentham's Fragment on Government · Europe · Culture
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.