228 Trumbull Gallery of Paintings in Yale College. 



No. 10. — Five Heads. Oil Miniatures. 



Signer Cerrachi, Sculptor, 1792. 



J. Dalton, Senator in Congress, 1791. 



The Young Sachem, a Chief of the Six Nations, 1792. 



Theodore Sedgwick, in Congress, 1791. 



Oliver Ellsworth, Senator in Congress, 1791. 



No. 11. — Capture of the Hessians at Trenton. — 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 Yirginia, 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, &c. 



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 be- 

 low Trenton, and the principal force, under his own personal 

 command, some few miles above Trenton. The night proved 

 tempestuous, with snow and hail. The river was rendered al- 



