Washington's Crossing Sparknotes

Washington's Crossing Book Review
During the phase of the Revolutionary War, Americans were determined to get rid of the hold that British Imperial Rule had on America in attempting to overthrow the power of the British military.
In Washington's Crossing, the book states that soon after England came with their 33,000 soldiers in New York in summer during the year of 1776, the much smaller army that made up the American military was close on their heels. Sadly, the American military was pushed from Long Island, Manhattan, and after that continued on to lose a lot of New Jersey and Rhode Island. Large numbers of Americans also proceeded to start signing their loyalty over to the English crown, and Washington's military began to be faced with a shortage of manpower. The remainder of Washington's army retreated to the Western shore of the Hudson River.
On December of 1776, Washington realized that he was going to have to take extreme action against the British. As a result, on Christmas night,

After Washington had taken his men to his winter quarters, groups of militia began swarming the countryside of New Jersey attacking Hessian and British soldiers basically at will which was later recognized as the "forage war". The British were quickly required overnight to redirect their forces, leaving large swaths of land under the regulation of the rebels. As the moral of the Colonials rose, the question is the war even winnable began to linger in the minds of the British. The massive reversal of the war was believed to be, because of the number of defeats the Americans went through, they were better able to adapt. Because they noticed they were hardly ever able to win fights against the much more disciplined, and well-trained British soldiers, they focused on what were, at the time, considered unconventional