Good morning, Whitewater.
Sunday look much like yesterday: cloudy in the morning, sunny in the afternoon, with a high of thirty. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset 4:33 for 9h 08m 06s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 36.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
Friday’s FW poll asked readers if, on New Year’s Day, they’d watch a college football game. Most respondents (76.47%) said yes, that they would watch one.
Two-thousand fifteen saw (at least) 83 rocket launches. Here are those 83:
On January 3rd, 1777, following his earlier victories at Trenton and Assunpink Creek, Washington is again victorious at Princeton:
The Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777) was a small battle in which General George Washington‘s revolutionary forces defeated British forces near Princeton,New Jersey.
On the night of January 2, 1777 George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek inTrenton. That night, he evacuated his position, circled around General Lord Cornwallis‘ army, and went to attack the British garrison at Princeton. Brigadier GeneralHugh Mercer of the Continental Army clashed with two regiments under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Mawhood of the British Army. Mercer and his troops were overrun and Washington sent some militia under Brigadier General John Cadwalader to help him. The militia, on seeing the flight of Mercer’s men, also began to flee. Washington rode up with reinforcements and rallied the fleeing militia. He then led the attack on Mawhood’s troops, driving them back. Mawhood gave the order to retreat and most of the troops tried to flee to Cornwallis in Trenton….
The British viewed Trenton and Princeton as minor American victories, but with these victories, the Americans believed that they could win the war.[43]American historians often consider the Battle of Princeton a great victory, on par with the battle of Trenton, due to the subsequent loss of control of most of New Jersey by the Crown forces. Some other historians, such as Edward Lengel consider it to be even more impressive than Trenton.[4] A century later, British historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan would write in a study of the American Revolution, when talking about the impact of the victories at Trenton and Princeton, that “It may be doubted whether so small a number of men ever employed so short a space of time with greater and more lasting effects upon the history of the world.”[51]