the other half, under nathanael greene, takes a different path. they swing around and come in on the pennington road. washington is with this column as it makes its way towards trenton. it is about 7:20, well after light has begun to streak through the skies. as they get closer to the village, washington is trying to maintain whatever surprise they might have. some of the soldiers were called washington was on horseback on the outskirts of town, and as the man passed by washington, moving into position around the village, washington was telling them to take -- stay by your officers. for god sakes, stay by your officers. and then they made first contact. shots exchanged with some of the hessian sentries. very quickly those sentries were quickly overwhelmed by the men coming out of the woods, and washington's men pressed forward. he could hear to his right gunfire, and then increasingly rapid gunfire as sullivan's men it made contact. washington took great comfort that selling 10 -- sullivan's men had arrived. what he didn't know was that all the ot

he loves nathanael greene, and i think he wanted to check on, as ene,alled her, the widow gre who lately would have the -- eli whitney was a tutor there at that plantation, but he had not arrived there yet in 1791. washington turned to augusta, georgia from savannah, and had to go up here -- uphill. he worried about his horses going through loose soil. he would write about that on a regular basis. there were not any large communities on the way and the celebratory step was low-key. he had time to write about the horses and he did. he was relieved to finally get to augusta, which was then the capital of georgia. just for a few years. he met with the governor there. he met with the governors of all these southern states. he also gave the locals some ideas about how they could remove some rocks from the river to make better use of the channel. washington was very practical. he was very interested in commerce and he wanted to come up with ways to move trade on the water. and he left canals. he would take note of these places in river city's -- river ies like augusta. from augusta, he turned