Washington says “Victory or Death” and crosses the Delaware to attack

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Washington faced and mastered by decisive action a very serious crisis of troop morale in 1776.

Everything had been going wrong.

So he decided to cross an icy river on Christmas evening in the middle of a snowstorm….and ATTACK!

https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-revolutionary-war/the-trenton-princeton-campaign/10-facts-about-washingtons-crossing-of-the-delaware-river/

…..See also

….The American Revolution succeeded 1) because of a tiny minority of American, German, Polish and French volunteers, 2) massive financial and military help from the king of France, 3) the French fleet defeats the Royal Navy off Virginia, plus aid from Spain and Holland, 4) popular outrage over Britain paying Indians to scalp and massacre white frontier families, 5) which atrocious tactic finally energized even the do-nothing-but-criticize majority of “The People” to support Washington

The Marquis de Lafayette was dumbfounded how few Americans initally fought for their freedom, as he was doing, though a foreigner and a wealthy-born aristocrat from Europe.

Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, who had sailed 3,000 miles to fight for the freedom of another country, disobeying his king’s direct royal order, for which he could have been beheaded, confessed to General George Washington in December 1777, after six months stateside, that he was initially shocked by the lack of ardor for the freedom struggle of most Americans.

Generals Washington and Lafayette pass by a sentry standing in wind and snow at Valley Forge in December 1777, when all seemed hopeless. Within a few weeks, in February 1778, France had signed an alliance with America, Lafayette returned to France to strengthen it — and within two years the war was over.