CSPAN3 Washington Crossing The Delaware January 15, 2017
Ladies and gentlemen good evening, will come to the kansas city public library. To welcomeleasure you to the presentation of harry laver on the 240th anniversary of Washington Crossing the delaware. An extraordinary moment in American History. So harsh was that the general washington and his other senior commanders considered burning new york city. The Continental Congress forbade the burning of the new york city. The Current Congress would consider that. They faced the hessians, perhaps the most brutal soldiers at the time and the british army. Maybe the most literate. The least orderly and i...