"Christmas night, 1776" Topic

How did they cross?
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A truly excellent article from the Journal of the American Revolution.
(That wasn't so hard, was it? )

I highly recommend subscribing to the mailing list. Several times a week there are new articles, and the site is fun to browse too.

I once put on a massive Trenton game, with each Hessian regiment having at least 75 figures. Pictures were on an old crashed computer, and the sadly greedy Photobucket. Harrumph. Are they still in business?
I treated each company as a separate "maneuver element". For the Hessians, and they had to rally to even leave their barracks. Fortunately, Turn 3 was automatic. Some may say that it's as much "fun" as any predetermined historical "massacre". But the Hessian players insist they had a good time, so I take their word. It took me about a year to collect everything needed.
Alt von Lossberg was Front Rank.
Von Knyphausen was Sash and Saber.
Rall was a serendipitous find. Foundry has a SYW Freikorps range, sculpted by Copplestone. The Grenadiers have no lapels! And Brookhurst had a clearance sale. That was the original kernel to get things rolling.

The Patriot side featured the Dixon "Valley Forge" Continentals (check them out!) and of course the Eureka Ragged Continentals. Plus any other manufacturers I had on hand. I'm not picky. I love them all.
They won.

Let's see if I can find The Crossing On Demand.

Very interesting article, and a super site as well.

Here you go, John!

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Merry Christma

TVAG

And Let us always remember this Old Masterpiece!

Those men had guts. Can you imagine the cries today if we attempted a military operation on Christmas night.

Did they have public holidays then (as we understand them today)?

Thanks for the link, John.
Fortunately, my local library has The Crossing on DVD. Great film.

Enjoyed the article, going to pass it on tomorrow

I guarantee you that our special ops people would do a raid on Christmas.

And that painting of the crossing with the jingoist slogan underneath happens to be the exact and literal truth of what was happening.

But probably not during Ede- (jury's out on Yom Kippur)

Can you imagine the cries today if we attempted a military operation on Christmas night.

The deployment of the 2d Marine Division to Saudi Arabia in December 1990 was during the Christmas season. If I'm not mistaken, that was a military operation.

And even though it was 30 years ago, I can still vividly remember the bus ride from Lejeune to Cherry Point and getting on the aircraft.

I remember standing on the tarmac at Cherry Point on New Years Day 1991. Next stop Saudi!

Dn Jackson;
I was aboard the USNS John Lenthall heading from Bayonne, NJ to the Persian Gulf, same Bat Time, same Bat Channel.

Eric

And Let us always remember this Old Masterpiece!

And here is the new masterpiece:

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Cheers epturner!

One of the great serendipitous acts of my life was the time, a few years ago when my wife and I were visiting the Nixon Library and Museum. It just so happened that the Museum was temporarily hosting that old masterpiece Virtual Armchair General showed above. It was wonderful to walk right up to it and take it all in. Awesome.

Cheers, Mini Pigs!

GW had to use boats – the bridge wouldn't continental money for the toll.
Christmas was as big a thing to Americans back then. In Philadelphia public observance of Christmas was outlawed. Of course this year the Philadelphia police shot and killed Jesus on Christmas – link

Ahem.

To explain AICUSV about Philadelphia, since he is in Montco…

The Quaker religion as well as others of the Protestant faith at the time, were a bit more reserved in their observance of what they considered a Papist bachinalia.

Just saying.

Eric