When your teacher asks you an opinion question, they want to hear your opinion, not someone else's. You have to decide how you would feel and why you would have felt that way. Hint: you have to do the actual reading to find out what it would have been like during that battle!
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The battle of Trenton took place on December 25, 1776 in Trenton, New Jersey on the Delaware River.
Trenton, New Jersey
Well i think it happened since the Hessian's and Britain's celebrate Christmas, so it was a good time since they wouldn't be ready ah no. the battle of Trenton did not happen because they celebrated Christmas it happened because British wanted to take over the Delaware river when the other soldiers owned the Delaware river so that caused the battle of Trenton :)both of u a right (:the Hessians were to busy celebrating the colonist had enough time to stop there route by cutting down trees and blocking everything!
Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas Day in 1776. They defeated the Hessians in an encounter known as the Battle of Trenton.
While it would be fun to say that is was to get to the other side, the truth is that he wanted to attack Trenton, New Jersey. He crossed it on 24 December and attacked on 25 December 1776 taking the Hessians by surprise. The Hessians surrendered, making the battle at Trenton the first American victory in the Revolutionary War.