Watch a great video that shares the history of the Christmas Day crossing of the Continental Army and the surprise wins at Trenton and Princeton that built the confidence of men who would free the colonies from the tyranny of Britain’s King George III.
An Interesting Often Overlooked Footnote
As our researchers were digging into the Washington Crossing that Christmas night back in 1776, they started to wonder where the troops came from that crossed that famous night to victory. Well the answer surprised even us as we learned that the troops were actually just a week early in Bernardsville, New Jersey, then known as Vealtown. If it wasn’t for the capture of General Charles Lee in Basking Ridge on the late morning of December 13, 1776, those troops may have never made it to McConkey’s Ferry that great Christmas night.
