First Christmas Special (Second Edition)! “George Wishes Some Hessians a Merry F’ing Christmas” | History That Doesn't Suck podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
First Christmas Special (Second Edition)! “George Wishes Some Hessians a Merry F’ing Christmas”
“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
This is the story of a Christmas Miracle at Trenton, New Jersey.
George Washington’s army is exhausted, disheartened, battered, starving, freezing–all but broken. Sir William Howe’s mighty British Army has chased these American soldiers out of New York, New Jersey, and now, across the ice-filled Delaware River into Pennsylvania. Worse still for the Patriots, the British have captured Continental General General Charles Lee and scared Congress into fleeing Philadelphia. The Revolution appears all but defeated.
But George isn’t ready to accept defeat. The Founding Father has made a list, checked it twice, and decided that the Hessian troops in Trenton have been naughty … neither patriot nor loyalist will soon forget Christmas of 1776.
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