and he conveys with with karl walder and nicholas and says let's reorganize the men in attack. the continentalforces attack straige british with the help of now edward's hands forces coming in from the right and general mifflin's force coming in from the left. the british are overwhelmed and they retreat. the americs wi the. battle of princeton. another huge and third critical battle in a short ten day period that becomes known as the ten crucial days, which turns the tide of the war. now, what happens at this? okay, as the british forces are retreating, there are some holdouts are left. in this building here. anybody know is that's nassau hall in the university of princeton. there are approximately 230 to 250 british soldiers held up here. and there's a young captain from new york named alexandra hamilton, who is a battery commander with the contial up rt here and starts firing straight into the front door to nassau hall and. the legend is that there was painting of king george on the wall and one of the cannonballs decapitates the king. whether true or not, i don't know. it m

and the conditions so dangerous that karl walder aborted the mission, bringing his forces back across to philadelphia, to pennsylvania. he thought that no one else was able to successfully cross either. and then the final forced down by philadelphia was also unsuccessful in crossing. so the next morning, karl walters in the process of writing a note to washington, saying, hey, i'm sorry, none of us were able to get across river and also and boom, he hears cannon going off in the direction of trent son of a gun. washington made it successfully across the river. so what does he do? the marines are now animated. there's a philadelphia associated wanting to get in a fight, so they make the decision to cross back over new jersey, to join washington in the fight. unfortunately, the time they get over into the new jersey side, washington, the decision after successfully capture and nearly a thousand hessians to cross back into philadelphia because he knows that there's about 10,000 british soldiers up in the princeton. so now washington's on the south side of the river cole during the marine

once washington attacked col walder and nicholas with the brigade ofa4o2 philadelphia ande marines werewere to establish blocking■i from able o reinforce rawl once and then the final support and effort was putting him send a more militiaf fortunately washington's was the only one of the four to successfully cross the delaware river on christmas day. if you look obviously this is the famous of the delaware. you see the ice in snow forming on the river. this is an actual picture, delaware river. and what the conditions look like at that time of year. so although washington was able with john glover's help get his force across the militia, that was supposed to cross right where trenton falls is located, where facing conditions lik't e. the marines in philadelphia staters actually got two thirds of their force across the river before a nor'easter hit. a blizzard came in. and the conditions so dangerous that karl walder aborted the mission, bringing his forces ck philadelphia, to pennsylvania. he thought that no one else was able to successfully cross either. and then thewn by philadelphia w