Having crossed successfully, they proceeded to engage and defeat the Hessian troops encamped in Trenton under the command of Johann Rall.
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Heather Cox Richardson 12/18/25 AMERICAN REVOLUTION ....For that was the crux of it. Paine had no doubt that patriots would create a new nation, eventually, because the cause of human self-determination was just. But how long it took to establish that new nation would depend on how much effort people put into success. “I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake,” Paine wrote. “Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it." Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered,” Paine wrote in that fraught moment, “yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.”
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Heather Cox Richardson 12/18/25
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Heather Cox Richardson 12/18/25 AMERICAN REVOLUTION ....For that was the crux of it. Paine had no doubt that patriots would create a new nation, eventually, because the cause of human self-determination was just. But how long it took to establish that new nation would depend on how much effort people put into success. “I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake,” Paine wrote. “Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it." Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered,” Paine wrote in that fraught moment, “yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.”
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Heather Cox Richardson 12/18/25
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Contextual research into early American interests in all things French was critical to my work on #PortraitofaCitizen, so it was a treat to view George Washington's French/English dictionary at the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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On the Trail of Ona Judge, George Washington's enslaved servant who ran away and was never caught. In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, read about her life in Washington's household.
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