5. Stiles, The Literary Diary of Erza Stiles, vol. 2, p. 113.
6. Piers Mackesy, The War for America 1775-1783, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992), p. xxiv.
7. Chadwick, George Washington’s War, p. 36.
8. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, p. 345.
9. Raphael, Founders, pp. 281-284, 287.
10. Hanser, The Glorious Hour of Lt. Monroe, p. 162.
11. Davis, 100 Decisive Battles, p. xi.
12. Bellamy, The Private Life of George Washington, p. 20.
13. Commager and Morris, eds., The Spirit of Seventy-Six, pp. 269-270.
14. Davis, 100 Decisive Battles, pp. 253.
15. Hopson, Captain Daniel Neil, pp. 3-5, 25-26, 29; Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, p. 453.
16. Hopson, Captain Daniel Neil, p. 28.
17. Ibid., p. 28.
18. Ibid., p. 29.
19. Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, p. 453.
20. Hopson, Captain Daniel Neil, pp. 29-30.
21. Ibid; Ketchum, The Winter Soldiers, pp. 250-251; English, General Hugh Mercer, pp. 79, 81; Goolrick, The Life of General Hugh Mercer, pp. 13-21, 49; Atwood, The Hessians, pp. 40, 49; Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, p.154; Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, pp. 390-394; Ellis, American Creation, pp. 15, 35-36; Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 122-123
22. Angelo Codevilla and Paul Seabury, War, Ends and Means, (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2006), p. 2.
23. Needleman, The American Soul, p. 83; Fleming, 1776, pp. 441, 462; Ketchum, The Winter Soldiers, pp. 249-251; Bill, TheCampaign of Princeton, p.47; Bill, Valley Forge, p. 6; Chandler, The Campaigns of Napoleon, pp. 129, 130, 135; Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, pp. 452-455; Raphael, Founders, pp. 267, 285, 290; Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 119-123.
24. Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 119-123; 365-366; Chadwick, George Washington’s War, pp. 499-500; Goolrick, The Life of General Hugh Mercer, pp. 13-21, 49; English, General Hugh Mercer, pp. x-81; Tony Perrottet, Napoleon’s Privates, 2,500 Years of History Unzipped, (New York: MJF Books, 2008), p. 207; Atwood, The Hessians, pp. 204-205; von Hagen, The Germanic People in America, pp. 158, 338; Codevilla and Seabury, War,. Pp. 95-97
25. Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 120-123, 365-366; Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, p. 310.
26. Clark, All Cloudless Glory, p. 529.
27. Giles, trans., The Art of War, Sun Tzu, pp. 62-63; Goolrick, The Life of General Hugh Mercer, pp. 13-21,49; English, General Hugh Mercer, pp. x-81; Raphael, Founders, p. 290; Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 119-123.
28. Pennsylvania Evening Post, January 21, 1777; Raphael, Founders, pp. 287; Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 119-123.
29. Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, p. 1; Needleman, The American Soul, p. 83; Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 119-123,.
30. Upham, A Memoir of General John Glover, pp. 34-35; Billias, General John Glover and his Marblehead Mariners, pp. 177, 183-191; Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 119-123.
31. Billias, General John Glover and his Marblehead Mariners, pp. 183-187; Gamage and Lord, The Lure of Marblehead, pp. 33-34.
32. Maryland Gazette, March 20, 1777; Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, pp. 254-255.
33. Maryland Gazette, March 20, 1777; Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, p. 194.
34. Valentine, Lord Stirling, p. 199.
35. Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, p. 122.
36. Stone, Letters of Brunswick and Hessian Officers During the American Revolution, p. 214.
37. Ibid., pp. 208; Dwyer, The Day Is Ours!, pp. 382-383.
38. Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 108, 111; Russell Banks, Dreaming Up America, (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008), pp. 1-98.
39. Banks, Dreaming Up America, pp. 1-98; Walter A. McDougall, Promised Land, Crusader State, The American Encounter with the World Since 1776, (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997), pp. 4-5, 15-17; Needleman, TheAmerican Soul, pp. 5, 34-35.
40. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, pp. 6, 10-16; Gelb, Less Than Glory, p. 13; Keane, TomPaine, pp. 106-145; Needleman, The American Soul, pp. 5, 34-35, 39, 41.
41. New York Times, February 22, 1861; McCulloch, 1776, p. 273; Kennenth M. Stampp, “One Alone? The United States and National Self-Determination,” in Gabor S. Boritt, Lincoln, The War President, The Gettysburg Lectures, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 188-189; Fred Kaplan, Lincoln, The Biography of a Writer, (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008), pp. 78-79, 118-119, 320-324.
42. James M. McPherson, Tried by War, Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, (New York: Penguin Press, 2008), pp. 1-2; Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial, Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2010), pp. 69-70.
43. Boritt, Lincoln, p. 189.
44. Keane, Tom Paine, pp. 108-145; Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, pp. 138-143; Liell, 46Pages, pp. 143-144; Ellis, American Creation, pp. 41-44
45. Keane, Tom Paine, pp. xx, 106-145; Needleman, The American Soul, p. 39; Ferling, TheAscent of George Washington, pp. 119-123.
46. Slagle,, “The Von Lossberg Regiment,” AU, pp. 214, 216; New York Times, June 15, 1863; Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, p. 3; Bruce Quarrie, Hitler’s Teutonic Knights, SS Pansers in action, (Wellingborough: Thorsons Publishing Group, 1986), p. 78; Brochure, “Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) by Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing Historic Park, Pennsylvania; John W. Stevens, Reminiscences of the Civil War, (Hillsboro: Hillsboro Mirror Print, 1902), p. 41.
47. Lengel, General George Washington, p. 87; Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, p. ix; Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 119-123.
48. Chernow, Washington, p. 283; Asprey, Frederick the Great, pp. xiii-xxv; Robert Asprey, The Reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, (New York: Basic Books, 2001), p. 37; Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 119-123.
49. Needleman, The American Soul, pp. 79, 83; Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, p. 372; New York Times, February 22, 1861; McPherson, Tried by War, pp. 1-2; Foner, TheFiery Trial, p. 31; Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 119-123; Bellamy, The Private Life of George Washington, pp. 109, 149
50. Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, p. 452.
51. Gragg, By the Hand of Providence, p. 95; Bellamy, The Private Life of George Washington, p. 149.
52. Needleman, The American Soul, p. 22; Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 119-123; Gragg, By the Hands of Providence, p. 87.
53. Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, p. 376.
54. Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 119-123; Fleming, Liberty, pp. 210-381; Golway, Washington’s General, p. 106; Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, p. 372.
55. Needleman, The American Soul, pp. 3-10, 64, 256; Ellis, American Creation, pp. 3-9, 56-57; Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 119-123.
56. Stryker, The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, p. 376; Valentine, Lord Stirling, p. 171; Ferling, The Ascent of George Washington, pp. 119-123.
57. Maryland Gazette, November 29, 1781.
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