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With the rise of the Tea Party, their push for constitutional limits on government power and admiration for the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, I thought I’d use this last holiday of the summer as an opportunity to post an item from the MRC’s archive which exposed how a major cable network once tried to discredit George Washington’s moral authority in history, and thus the legitimacy of the Revolutionary War. In an A&E movie, aired in 2000, on George Washington crossing the Delaware, The Crossing, he is persuaded that just like the hired-gun Hessians, his opposition to British taxes ...

Combat operations for the winter, falling back to ne and leaving mostly hired hessian troops at a string of garrisons throughout new jersey. >> colonel von donop... your troops will take the post alongside the river, right next to the enemy. colonel rall, you shall have command at trenton. >> yah. if i can tempt washington over here, then i'll capture him! >> the british thought they had won. they had conquered the main american cities, the different towns. and so i think they really wrote off george washington. but washington is thinking

Bayonet! >> washington benefits from the sheer indifference of commanders on the other side. the hessian commander in trenton is made aware of the encroaching american army and pockets the message without even reading it. >> colonel rall's indifference is a stroke of luck for washington. but elsewhere, his operation's luck is running out. downriver, massive ice jams force his two defensive units to abandon their mission. instead of enveloping trenton with a three-pronged attack, washington must go it alone... if he's able to make it across the river. [ horse neighs ] >> what is that? >> it's t...

Divide and conquer the hessian forces. colonel griffin's militia must lure von donop and his men south of trenton, allowing washington to attack commander rall in the center of town. if the tactic works, for the first time in the war, the americans will have superior numbers, but, most importantly, they'll have the element of surprise. >> fire! fall back! fall back to mount holly! >> as washington hopes, colonel von donop takes the bait. >> [ yells in german ] >> believing he has the upper hand, von donop chases the retreating americans... >> schnell! schnell! >> ...moving farther from trenton...

Is facing near certain defeat unless he can find a way to strike back. >> monsters! [ woman screams, musket fires ] [ musket fires, horse neighs ] >> rally the militia. go warn colonel griffin. go! >> when new jersey militiamen rally, under the command of colonel samuel griffin, it gives washington the opportunity he's looking for. >> it's impossible to imagine a more challenging time for george washington. he was being urged by other officers, who perhaps wanted his job, "hunker down and hold off, because a loss could finish us." he says "no, i'm doubling up, picking up the pace, and we're ta...