The sunny drifts of golden morn's receding lapses had just begun and the two friends loitering in their promenade headed back to forest in the characteristics elope routine to batter their ideological leanings and storied interests .They resumed the American history where they had left it
"Those losses hardly bothered Washington"
"Like every sterling soldiers I think so"
"Any stampede?"
"Apparently as the British tailed him and his beleaguered continental troops in the fatal climate across the New Jersey,the encountered losses he suffered sharpened his discretion to avoid large scale confrontation with the brutal power in the cavalier trenches and open battlefield in line with much earlier prognostication by Hamilton.That "We should on all occasions avoid a general action or put anything to the risk".This he told the congress in one of his briefings", unless compelled by a necessity into which we ought never to be drawn".He threw his weight and fully supported Hamilton's model of ..."small scale improvisional skirmishes ,the very sort of mobile risk averse war of attrition"wearing the opponents constantly strike and vamoose methods behind that Hamilton had endorsed in his undergraduate essay.He says "By hanging upon their rear and seizing every opportunity of skirmishing " they could render the situation extremely complex inaccessible and unaffordable for the British.The belief was American rugged terrain with thick forest could make large scale confrontation with conventional warfare virtually impossible.He could not make a stand at the Raritan River close to New Brunswick and was bold to take decision and identified the weakness of his struggling troops to face the massive nature of the inherent enemy offensive.Nevertheless he took instant interest at the marvelous skills of Hamilton during the retreat.when he posted his gun over the river bank and then provided cover for the retreating patriots,directed a battery against the advanced columns of the enemy that pressured the retreats of the Americans by the Ford.Astounded he was charmed by his uncommon brilliance.Though hardly mentioned names in the December letter to the congress admitted the incident and hailed "the smart cannonade " that insulated their escape.There was another blunder"
"How?"
"It happens that General Howe occupied New jersey and allowed Washington and his men to cross into Pennsylvania from Delaware river Washington had warned the congress in ten days the army will be wiped out on December 20 for simple dearth of winter clothing and blankets .Many soldiers by enlistment period soon to expire badly needed new set of recruits and conscription yet he dared to rally them into the open battlefield.
Nevertheless the recurring health problem by Hamilton did not deter his own persistence even as he approach his waning days as artillery captain.As Washington recrossed Delaware on Christmas night and pounced besotted Hessians at Trenton drowsy, Hamilton was In the nearby farm bedridden . Regardless of the ailments and his men reduced to fewer than thirty due death and negligence,he stood and fight . Fighting alongside Lord Stirling's brigade summoned at midnight were huddled in cargo boats and ice caked poled their path across frigid Delaware.
They were equiped with cannons "
"You mean Hamilton's men?"
"Yeah two cannons to glimpse Hesian detachment 's metal Hemet and glittery bayonets.He luckily absconded cannon balls an explosion whizzed by his ears .The Washington men later captured a thousand Hessians "
"Finally they re winning,waow an herculean task!"
"But without Hamilton would not dare it"
"Hamilton again how?"
"Perhaps indubitably their first ever pyrhic victory.It was the 🔥 fire from Hamilton's artillery company had compelled the surrender of those enemy soldiers.It became a household celebration and patriots celebrated everywhere at the breaking news .The psychology impact was immense beyond compare to its scanty military preponderance.At Princeton on January 3,1777 in the bold attempt to capitalise on his victory attempted another first against the British forces and they rounded up two hundred British forces and calls it ..."a fine fox chase my boys".The elegance of slender Hamilton was noticeable and illustrious in the fox chase . Suddenly mythical gleam courted him and when his company marched into Princeton according to a friend it was a model of a discipline and his fast becoming house hold name was on every gossipping lip.A youth that caught everyone by surprise with his slender frame and was back to the college that spurned him off few years ago where one regiment of enemy troups had invaded the dormitory.Then he set up his cannons in the College yard burst them asunder with one cannonball which pounded the brick building to force their surrender.Legend says the cannon ball sliced through king George II's portrait in the chapel."
"Venomous steel"
"Indeed a venomous steel.Hamilton was superduper in every sense of the capital word.
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