228 Trumbull Gallery of Paintings in Yale College. 
No. 10.—Five Heaps. Oil Miniatures. 
Signor Cerracut, Sculptor, 1792. 
J. Datton, Senator in Congress, 1791. 
Tue Youne Sacuem, a Chief of the Six Nations, 1792. 
Turopore Sepewrcx, in Congress, 1791. 
Oxiver Ex.tswortu, Senator in Congress, 1791. 
No. 11.—Capture or tue Hessians at T'renton.—December 
26, 1776 
The campaign of 1776 was one continued series of disasters. 
The defeat on Long Island, the loss of New York, the indecisive 
battle at White Plains, and the capture of Fort Washington, were 
followed by a rapid retreat through New Jersey ; and the frag- 
ments of the army did not feel themselves safe until they had 
crossed the Delaware, and secured upon the west side of the river, 
all the boats which were to be found. Here the exhausted troops _ 
enjoyed a few days of repose, and were joined by some reinforce- 
ments from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, and by such 
part of the northern army, under General Gates, as could be spared 
from that quarter; the entire force when united, amounting to 
perhaps 4 or 5000 men. 
_ The enemy, in the mean time, finding it impossible to cross 
the Delaware, and push on immediately to Philadelphia, as they 
had intended, left a strong corps of Hessian troops commanded by 
Col. Rahl, at Trenton, and another, also Hessians, commanded 
-by Col. Count Donop, at Bordentown, and withdrew their main 
force to Brunswick, where they established their magazines, &e. 
Washington, now like a chafed lion, meditated vengeance 
_ against his pursuers; and having ascertained the position and 
strength of his enemy in Trenton and Bordentown, and that it 
consisted entirely of German troops, who were accustomed to 
keep Christmas with great festivity, he determined upon attempt 
ing to surprise them on the following morning, when the revelry 
of the night would probably leave them off their guard. The 
necessary dispositions were accordingly made for crossing the 
_ Delaware, in three divisions ; one near Bordentown, one just De: 
low Trenton, and the principal force, under his own persona 
command, some few miles above Trenton. The night proved 
tempestuous, with snow and hail. The river was rendered al- 
