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| They died for this flag on Christmas Eve. |
Christmas, 1776:
"Of those who reached the other side of that terrible river, half would get lost in the night and never found their target, but the small number who did attacked like madmen. For many decades historians believed the Hessian garrison must have been celebrating and distracted, but more recent scholarship has revealed that was not the case. They were some the most disciplined soldiers in the world and would not have been lax or drunk. They met their American foe that night with eyes wide open and the sight must have terrified them. Consider their condition after the crossing and then marching ten or fifteen miles in a blizzard. They must have appeared like demons from hell and the passion of their suicidal rage proved it. Their onslaught was too much for the Hessian defense and they threw down their weapons in humiliation.
It was the Continental Army’s first real victory and it gave Americans the gift of hope for Christmas."
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