January 05, 2002
Jersey Pride. 225 years ago this weekend George Washington began his winter encampment in Morristown, New Jersey, following the "Ten Crucial Days" that were the turning point of the American Revolution. Beginning with the Christmas Day Delaware River crossing and continuing through the victories at Trenton and Princeton, a retreating Continental Army on the verge of defeat, demoralization, and desertion was newly invigorated and on a course towards independence.
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