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Today episode 122 crossing the Delaware.

For the last few weeks I have been building up to Washington's famous crossing of the Delaware

River as portrayed famously in Emmanuel Lightsey's painting.

Despite the hype often given to this famous act,

it really is hard to exaggerate just how important this event was to the course of the war.

Had Washington not attempted the attack or failed in its execution, there's a very good

chance that the Continental Army would have dissolved that winter and the rebellion come to an end.

Washington's Army had fallen to a few thousand men without adequate food clothing or shelter

to get through the winter. The British regulars had pushed them back to

Philadelphia. The only thing that had kept the regulars from taking Philadelphia that winter

was General Howe's decision not to deliver the final blow.

A great many of Washington soldiers had already gone home,

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