Battle of Trenton

Victory for colonists On Christmas night 1776 Washington led 2,400 men in small rowboats across the ice-choked Delaware River and marched to Trenton, New Jersey.*It was held by the Hessians but because they were drinking they were sleeping so the Americans took it by a surprise attack and killed 30 of the enemy and took 918 captives and six Hessian cannons. The Americans were rallied by another astonishing victory eight days later against 1,200 British stationed at Princeton and marched into winter camp near Morristown, in northern New Jersey.