nathanael greene wrote about the startling turn of events. man as greene: the two late actions at trenton and princeton have put a very different face upon affairs. and a good many british officers began to doubt that the american war was winnable, and this only a few weeks after they thought it had been won. narrator: following victory at princeton, george washington decides to march north to morristown, new jersey. he will spend the winter with his wife, martha, and his most trusted officers rebuilding the army, planning future strategy. the war is certainly not over. there will be six more years of fighting. but there has been a remarkable turnaround. a british historian later summed up the battles of trenton and princeton. "it may be doubted," he wrote, "whether so small a number of men "ever employed so short a space of time "with greater and more lasting effects upon the history of the world." fleming: if the americans had failed at trenton and princeton, or either one of them, they would have become peaceful, submissive, obedient servan