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George Will has a column about the book, "Washington's Crossing" by Brandeis historian David Hackett Fischer. In the book, Fischer makes the point that Washington crossing the Delaware and winning the battle of Trenton turned the tide of a losing war.
Up to that, point Washington has lost every battle against the British and had lost 90 percent of his army. Washington gambled everything on his crossing the Delaware and catching the British and Hessians by surprise. Had Washington lost this gamble, the revolution would have failed and, as Will says, “subsequent world history would have been very different.”
I guess we’re lucking we didn’t have CNN around back then or we would have given up.