![]() ![]() His opponent, General Howe, had offered pardons to local residents, and the re-enlistment period was ending for the volunteers in his army.Īn inspired Washington and his troops, who adopted the motto “Victory or Death,” crossed the Delaware River during a Nor’easter on Christmas Day and routed the Hessian garrison at Trenton. ![]() ![]() Washington was literally at a crossroads. The army’s commanders read the words to a force that include John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton, James Monroe, and Aaron Burr. Paine had written the words during the army’s retreat from New York. Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph,” said Paine in The American Crisis, a new pamphlet that appeared in the Pennsylvania Journal.įour days later, like a modern-day football coach seeking to inspire his team, General George Washington had Paine’s words read out loud to his troops at McConkey’s Ferry on the Delaware River. “These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. But it was a second series of pamphlets published on December 19 of that year that inspired a huge American military victory. The publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense caused a sensation in early 1776 as it explained the need for freedom. ![]()
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