Gambles & Glory: Washington and the Revolutionary War | The American Story | Ep 7
The Glenn Beck Program
Mercury Radio Arts
4.6 • 25.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:21.8 | dot UK slash podcast to learn more. It's Christmas night, 1776. The Delaware River is frozen. |
| 0:32.1 | It's an obstacle course, chunks of ice drifting like slowed daggers through the current. |
| 0:37.1 | Snow pelts the men's faces and numbs their fingers as they row. |
| 0:41.3 | When striving for silence, every splash of an oar feels louder than a gunshot. |
| 0:48.3 | General George Washington, tall, solemn, wrapped in a heavy cloak, stands near the bow of his |
| 0:56.1 | boat. He says very little. He doesn't have to. Everyone here knows the stakes. A rag-tagged, |
| 1:04.0 | bunch of farmers, merchants, and dreamers shivering in the threadbare coats, their morale as |
| 1:10.0 | thin as the ice coating the ground on the opposite bank. |
| 1:12.6 | The Continental Army has been thrashed, repeatedly, and chased across New Jersey. |
| 1:19.6 | Its numbers have shrunk from 19,000 to less than 6,000. |
| 1:24.6 | Most enlistments expire in just days. If this night fails, the revolution could very |
| 1:31.0 | well die before the new year begins. Sometimes desperation breeds boldness. The British, they think |
| 1:40.9 | the war is over for the winter, and they've hired German-Heshen |
| 1:44.8 | mercenaries, and they are all in cozy quarters having just enjoyed Christmas celebrations |
| 1:50.1 | with plenty of wine. Washington's plan is audacious. It's straight out of a heist movie. |
| 1:58.8 | They're going to cross the icy Delaware River, under the cover of |
| 2:02.2 | darkness, march nine miles, and launch a surprise attack on the Hessian garrison at Trenton |
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