With the Continental Army threatening to dissolve around him,General George Washington led the remnants of his army across the icy Delaware River on Christmas night 1776 and routed  a Hessian garrison at Trenton.The subsequent and Princeton secured Washington place as one of the greatest generals in the world history.Shortly after eight o-clock on the morning of December 26,1776,the charge on the city.Three columns with Washington personally leading the middle charge.as the soilders pushed forward, artirlly began to fire.to his astonishment,Washington had maintained element of surprise.