America at a Crossroads: War Room Tells Story of Washington Crossing the Delaware on Christmas Morning

9 Comments on America at a Crossroads: War Room Tells Story of Washington Crossing the Delaware on Christmas Morning

1. FANTASTIC link @MJA, watched the entire first half, but the Battle of Trenton part, starts around @38:00 before the Battle of the Bulge, another magnanimous moment in the annals of American History…and Christmas.

   We just finished watching a movie called ‘The Crossing’, a Christmas ‘tradition’ here in the ‘Glover’ household…because OF it’s association with today’s date.

   I use Glover as an avatar FOR A REASON…’saved’ GW, at least FOUR times.

   Right ‘now’, in 1776 relative time, the Crossing is occurring, and is complete by dawn the next morning and the march to Trenton begins, the battle starts at 8:00AM two hours later than GW wanted…but they DID IT.

   They (we) won.

   Ghost of Col Glover

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2. Washington had it IN personally for the Hessian General Rall, who killed a number of troops at Brooklyn, White Plains and at the siege of Fort Washington.

   Buried in Trenton:
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7570338/johann-gottlieb-rall

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3. You know who else does a great job with this story? I don’t care for the guy, but Michael Medved’s history audios are really good to listen to.

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4. @Joe6pak – I agree! I have a couple I need to pull out…

   Merry Christmas my West Coast friend!

   (@MJA – can you rid the post above joe6pak? This is too good and sacrosanct thread! FOR out of town TROLLERS).

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5. Michael Medved’s history video are good, but it’s so weird how the lessons are lost on Medved.

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6. @ joe6pak DECEMBER 26, 2020 AT 12:40 AM

   Can’t listen to him. I can’t even listen to a commercial he is speaking on and will change the channel. It’s personal. Ask me about it next time we meet.

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7. Thanks for sharing your precious time to create this post, It so informative and the content makes the post more interesting. really appreciated.

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8. The battle is over by this point, but the war far from. Winning Trenton was merely the FIRST step in the continuing battle for Liberty.

   Americans killed in Trenton, IN battle – NONE
   Number of Hessian prisoners taken – 900
   Number of provisions and weapons taken – TONS
   Crossing 2000 troops across the Delaware in a Nor’Easter and marching NINE miles at night?

   And to top it off, the Killing of Rall.

   PRICELESS.

   We owe a LOT to those VERY committed men…

   (The 14th Regiment from Marblehead, our first military amphibious unit, disbanded after this battle and went home to Mass…Glover kept going.)

9. What ‘crossroads’? We’re here – we CROSSED IT.

   Our votes will NEVER count again – EVER. We need to understand that.