Question

On Christmas Night of 1776 General George Washington and his army crossed the [x] River in order to attack the [y] at [z], New Jersey. Before launching the attack, Washington had [a] [b] by [c] [d] read aloud.

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Answer 1

The event that is being described is the Battle of Trenton, which played an extremely significant role in reversing the fortunes of the American forces in the American Revolutionary War. After suffering a string of defeats, the morale of Washington's Army was low. Moreover, most of the contracts of the soldiers were about to expire. The army braved the cold weather to cross the freezing Delaware River. They successfully attacked a camp of Hessians at Trenton. The Hessians were the German soldiers hired by the British Army. To motivate his soldiers, Washington asked the officers to read aloud passages from Thomas Paine's The American Crisis, a series of pamphlets that were published as a response to the American revolutionary war. Here are the completed lines

On Christmas Night of 1776 General George Washington and his army crossed the Delaware River in order to attack the Hessians at Trenton, New Jersey. Before launching the attack, Washington had the  American Crisis by Thomas Paine read aloud.

x- Delaware

y- Hessians

z- Trenton

a- American

b- Crisis

c- Thomas

d- Paine