. New Jersey en tant que colonie et en tant qu'état : l'un des treize. Ink Creek, de sorte que les hommes de thatRails ne pouvaient pas s'échapper à Donop; Et le général de Washington, avec un détachement de l'armée du themain, deux mille quatre cents de force, avec dix-huit pièces d'artillerie, devrait faire une attaque adirect sur la ville de garnison de Trenton, où le colonel Rail était au quartier général. Pendant le jour de Noël, les camps de Pennsyl-vania étaient vivants avec de l'activité. Par deux heures le matin certains régiments de l'arsenal principal se déplataient vers McKonkeys Ferry; et par trois dans l'après-midi, tous ceux détaillés pour thisservice étaient sur t

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. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. ink Creek, so thatRails men could not escape to Donop; and thatGeneral Washington, with a detachment of themain army, two thousand four hundred strong, with eighteen pieces of artillery, should make adirect attack on the garrison town of Trenton, where Colonel Rail was in headquarters. During Christmas day the camps in Pennsyl-vania were alive with activity. By two oclock inthe morning some regiments of the main armywere moving towards McKonkeys Ferry; and bythree in the afternoon all those detailed for thisservice were on the march, tingeing, it is said, thelight snow which had fallen with blood from theirfeet. Each soldier had three days cooked rationsand each carried forty rounds of ammunition. The men were placed in Durham boats, in row-galleys, and in every kind of craft which couldbe collected in the upper waters of the Delaware.The jagged ice floated swiftly by, struck the boatsseverely, and they had to be handled with thegreatest care. It was after three oclock upon the [Vol. 2]. A. HES8IAH BOOT. 146 NEW JERSEY AS A OOL morning of December 26 when the Americansreached the New Jersey shore. The order for theexpected attack on Trenton, nine miles distant, was five oclock in the morning, which could notnow be carried out. The point where the army crossed, now knownin New Jersey as Washingtons Crossing, wasabout nine miles above Trenton. Here two roadsled to Trenton, one skirting the river, the otherrunning along the rising ground which lay but ashort distance to the eastward. Washington, with a detachment, took the more easterly route.General Sullivan following the river road. Mut-tering the password Victory or Death, both de-tachments reached Trenton at eight oclock. Driv-ing back the pickets, it was clear by the rapidfiring that each column vied with the other to bethe first in the attack on the main body of theHessians. As soon as Rails grenadiers heard the firingthey hurried out of their qu

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