Born in Battle 4.5

With the campaigning season seemingly over, General Washington plots a surprise attack against a Hessian garrison force at Trenton. On Christmas Day the army recrosses the Delaware to achieve complete surprise, routing the Hessians and consolidating a position east of the river. When a British detachment arrives under Lord Cornwallis, Washington deftly side-steps the new threat to score another improbable triumph at Princeton. Continuing northward, the army goes into winter quarters at Morristown, New Jersey, having ended the year 1776 with two restorative victories.