FISCHER, DAVID HACKETT - Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)

NY, Oxford Univ Pr. 2004. (ISBN: 0195170342). Hard, 8vo. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Oxford Univ Pr. 2004, second printing. 8vo. x+564pp. illus. b/w photos, maps. Blue cloth with gilt titles. "Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison at Trenton, killing or capturing nearly a thousand men. A second battle of Trenton followed within days. The Americans held off a counterattack by Lord Cornwallis's best troops, then were almost trapped by the British force. Under cover of night, Washington's men stole behind the enemy and struck them again, defeating a brigade at Princeton. The British were badly shaken. In twelve weeks of winter fighting, their army suffered severe damage, their hold on New Jersey was broken, and their strategy was ruined." Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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