George Washington and the Christmas Attack That Stunned the World
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, on Christmas night in 1776, George Washington crossed the Delaware River and launched a daring surprise attack at Trenton that changed the course of the American Revolution. Against all odds, his army defeated the Hessian forces and revived the cause of independence when hope was at its lowest. Dr. Larry Arnn of Hillsdale College shares how Washington’s leadership turned a desperate gamble into one of the most important victories in American history.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, |
| 0:18.7 | the show where America is the star and the American people. To search for |
| 0:23.3 | the Our American Stories podcast, go to the IHeart Radio app to Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your |
| 0:31.0 | podcasts. Neil Young has old black, Willie Nelson has Trigger, and Elvis Presley had the dove. But perhaps the most |
| 0:40.7 | famous nickname for a guitar is what B.B. King named is Gibson ES 355, and that is Lucille. |
| 0:50.9 | Up next, the story of how that guitar got its name. |
| 1:00.3 | Here to start us off is B.B. King's longtime friend, Myron Johnson, followed by Daniel DeVise, |
| 1:02.8 | author of The King of the Blues. |
| 1:04.8 | Let's get into the story. |
| 1:08.8 | That story's been repeated and told. |
| 1:13.1 | I'm amazed that it's remained consistent as it has over the years because, you know, you can start a conversation at one end and after it passes |
| 1:18.4 | through four or five people that comes out on the other end completely different than what |
| 1:22.3 | it started, but very consistent with that and that. B.B. was doing a performing at a jug joint. |
| 1:31.3 | Sort of an off the books joint in the black community. |
| 1:34.3 | In Twist, Arkansas. |
| 1:36.3 | Which is named for a white family called Twist. |
| 1:38.3 | There's probably a sharecropping community. |
| 1:41.3 | And doing his performance while he was on stage, these two guys ended up finding out that they were romancing the same woman. |
| 1:50.0 | A beautiful server in this in this juke joint. |
| 1:56.0 | And they got into a fight over this woman. And back in the day, juk joints ran year-round. |
| 2:05.6 | And during the cold months, wintertime, they would take a big barrel, |
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