General John Glover was a fishing captain-turned-Revolutionary War hero. He led the Marblehead militia, which ferried General Washington across the Delaware on Christmas 1776.
The Americans were pushed up against the East River and faced certain slaughter, possibly even the whimpering end of the rebellion.
"Few men ever had so much riding on their skill, or were under such pressure, or performed so superbly.""The stubborn resistance allowed Washington to withdraw his troops north to the hills of White Plains. It also demonstrated the surprising stamina of the American troops." "Washington hoped that a quick victory at Trenton would bolster sagging morale in his army and encourage more men to join the ranks of the Continentals come the new year," writes the website of George Washington’s Mount Vernon.It was a plan of extraordinary daring — and extraordinary desperation.
They were sturdy flat-bottomed vessels used to haul coal from the hills of Pennsylvania to the port of Philadelphia. The raid was an extraordinary success. Two dozen Hessians were killed, dozens more wounded and some 900 taken prisoner. Members of the Glover's Marblehead Regiment, a contemporary group of reenactors, offer a salute to Revolutionary War hero General John Glover at his grave in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
John Glover was an American fisherman, merchant and military leader and brigadier general during the American Revolutionary War. From the book "Gallery of Historical Portraits," published c.1880.
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