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A great gift to his countrymen, Washington's Christmas crossing of the delaware and victory over the enemy at trenton gave new life to America's struggle for freedom.
Christmas morning dawned gloomy and cold over the rebel camp. The low, overcast sky promised drizzle, or worse, by afternoon. The temperature, hovering just above freezing the past few days, was now dropping rapidly. The weather conditions did not improve the mood of the soldiers who, having skewered chunks of meat with the ramrods from their flint-lock firearms, were squatting around low campfires preparing the morning's repast.
The general of this rag-tag army was cold too, but for the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, A Christmas to remember. (History-Struggle for Freedom).