...this note to Cadwalader : " Notwithstanding the discouraging accounts I have received from Colonel Reed of what might be expected from the operations...determined, as the night is favorable, to cross the river, D^lu. and make the attack on Trenton in the morning. If you can do nothing real, at least create as...

...this note to Cadwalader : " Notwithstanding the discouraging accounts I have received from Colonel Reed of what might be expected from the operations...determined, as the night is favorable, to cross the river, Dec! 25. and make the attack on Trenton in the morning. If you can do nothing real, at least create...

...this note to Cadwalader : " Notwithstanding the discouraging accounts I have received from Colonel Reed of what might be expected from the operations...night is favorable, to cross the river, and make the i^fig. attack on Trenton in the morning. If you can do nothing real, at least create as great a diversion...

...movement of Christmas Day: "Notwithstanding the discouraging Accounts I have received from Col. [Joseph] Reed of what might be expected from the Operations below, I am determined, as the Night is favourable, to cross the River and make the attack upon Trenton in the Morning. . . ."21 It was to...

...Cadwalader, McKenkey's Ferry, Dec. 25, 1776, "Notwithstanding the discouraging Accounts I have received from Col. Reed, of what might be expected from the Operations below, I am determined as the night is favourable to cross the River and make the Attack upon Trenton in the morning. If you can do nothing...

...25th Decem. 1776 Six O'Clock PM DEAR SIR Notwithstanding the discouraging Accounts I have received from Col". Reed of what might be expected from the...Operations below, I am determined, as the Night is favourable, to cross the River and make the Attack upon Trenton in the Morning. If you can do nothing...

...o'clock PM, December 25, 1776. Dear Sir: Notwithstanding the discouraging Accounts I have received from Col. Reed of what might be expected from the Operations below, I am determined, as the Night is favourable, "The draft is in the writing of George Lewis; the PS, in brackets, is in Washington's writing....

...Cadwalader downstream at Bristol. Despite the limited support he could expect, Washington told Cadwalader, "I am determined, as the night is favorable, to cross the river and make the attack upon Trenton in the morning. If you can do nothing real, at least create as great a diversion as possible."...

...Cadwalader, Washington scratched out a note that he asked Rush to take to Cadwalader as soon as possible : I am determined, as the night is favorable, to cross the river and make an attack on Trenton in the morning. If you can do nothing real, at least create as great a diversion...

...and stormy night that Christmas as General Washington stood on the Pennsylvania bank of the Delaware. "I am determined, as the night is favorable, to cross the River," he informed Col. Cadwalader of the Pennsylvania militia camped to his south. To be sure, the night...