Video by REDOUBT Ten days earlier, this army had been dying. Now the campfires along a frozen creek were still burning, but the men who lit them were gone — and from twelve miles behind him, a British general who had gone to bed certain he had his enemy cornered woke to the sound of a battle he could not explain.
The man who did this commanded a few thousand starving, shoeless soldiers whose enlistments were about to expire, an army every sober observer in Philadelphia expected to simply cease to exist within the week. Instead, in the span of ten days, that same collapsing force crossed an ice-choked river at night, captured an entire garrison of Europe's most feared professional soldiers, then turned around and beat the British army's own regulars in the open field — twice, back to back, with the same exhausted men.
This is the story of Trenton and Princeton — the ten days that did not just save an army. They saved the Revolution itself.
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00:00 The fires were still burning
00:33 An army has vanished in the night
02:08 The man named George Washington
04:00 Tearing up the bridges behind them
06:01 One victory before the army disappears
08:04 A raid that fooled Colonel Rall
10:02 The plan: cross at McConkey's Ferry
12:02 The mariners who could be trusted
14:00 Only one column made it across
16:05 The storm turns on the Hessians
18:00 Surrounded before they could form a line
20:01 Midnight, and the enlistments expire
22:03 Cornwallis attacks the creek
24:03 Neither stand nor retreat
24:43 A silent march past dying fires
28:02 Mercer's brigade among the apple trees
30:01 Washington rides into the crossfire
32:01 Surrender at Nassau Hall
34:01 Princeton changes everything
36:00 Not drunk. Not lucky. Not doomed.
REDOUBT chronicles the precarious state of the Continental Army during the winter of 1776. Facing mass desertions and dwindling supplies, George Washington orchestrated bold maneuvers across the Delaware River to challenge British control in New Jersey, testing the resolve of soldiers and the future of the revolution during ten pivotal days.
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