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A 3 page book review of David Hackett Fischer’s Washington’s Crossing. This text describes the pivotal events in the American Revolution that led up to Washington crossing the Delaware and giving the Americans their first victories of the Revolution. Fischer describes these engagements and their significance and meaning in a highly detailed, and highly readable, narrative. No additional sources cited.
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surprising that in the first six months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, things were going very badly for Washington and his forces. This dire situation was turned
around and the Revolutionary cause saved when Washington undertook a bold move that was immortalized in Emmanuel Leutzes famous painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware." While many Americans are familiar with
this painting, few people realize the tremendous significance of this event to the revolutionary war effort. David Hackett Fischer in his highly readable history text Washingtons Crossing remedies this lack,
as this book is a highly detailed account of the military actions that pulled the American cause back from the looming jaws of defeat. Fischer does an excellent job
of presenting the serious nature of the situation that Washington was facing. Americans are so used to the saga of the Revolution that there is a tendency to overlook how
close the American forces came to defeat. Fischers writing style gives the reader a sense of immediacy and conveys the awesome power of the British military power. For example, Fischer
relates an eyewitness account of New York harbor on June 29, 1776 as it filled with British ships, "In the van were big British ships of line, cleared for
action, with red gunports open, batteries run out, and huge white battle ensigns streaming in the breeze" (Fischer 31). He then relates how twenty-three thousand British Regulars, augmented
by ten thousand German troops, succeeded at swarming ashore with "scarcely a shot fired" to thwart this invasion (Fischer 32). The book begins with the author introducing the armies
that were involved in the conflict. There are chapters devoted to describing, first of all, the rebels, the defending Americans. Then, he turns to describing the forces that they faced,
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