Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-08-13


ing when they came in sight of the
town. The village OF Trenton then con
tanned about 100 houses. mostly frame.
scattered along both sides OF two long
streets and chiefly located on the west
bank of the Assunpink, which here
bent sharply TO the north before 1t
flowed into the Delaware. The Assam.
pink was fordable in places at law wa.
ter, but it was spanned by substan.
tia stone bridge, which gave on the
road followed by Sullivan, at the west
end of the village. Washington came
down from the north and entered the
Village from the other side. About hall
a mile from the edge Of the town the
column led by him came abreast Of an
old man chopping wood in a farmyard
by the roadside.
(which is the way to the Hessian
pickett" said the general.
Il don't know" replied the man sui.
lcnly.
you may tell" said Captain Forest,
riding near the general at the head of
lis battery, for this is General Wash
Iington."
The mans expression altered al once
God bless and prosper you!" he
cried eagerly. raising his hands to
heaven. There! The picket is in that
house yonder, and the sentry stands
near that tree"
The intense cold and heavy snow had
driven the twenty-five men who com.
and they were huddled together in one
OF the rude huts which served as n
guardhouse. The snow deadened the
sound of the American advance, and
the careless sentry did not perceive
them. No warning was given until the
lieutenant In command of the guard
stepped out of the house by chance
and gave the alarm In great surprise.
| The picket rushed ont, and the men
lined up In the road In front OF the
column, the thick snow preventing
them from forming q correct idea OF
the approaching force. The advance
guard OF the COntinentals, led by Cap.
tain William A. Washington and Lieu.
tenant James Monroe. instantly swept
down upon them. After a scattered
yolley, which hurt no one, they fed
precipitately BACK toward the village,
giving the alarm and rallying on the
main guard, posted nearer the center
of the town. which had been speedily
drawn up, to the number of seventy-five
men. Meanwhile Sullivan's men, with
Stark at the head, had routed the pick.
cts on the other road in the same gal
liant style. This picket was composed
of about fifty Hessian chasseurs and
twenty English light dragons, under
command of Lieutenant Grothausen of
the chasseurs. They all fled so precip.
itately that they did not stop to alarm
the brigade which they had been sta
toned to protect, but rapidly galloped
down the road and, crossing the bridge
over the Assunpink, made good their
escape toward Bordentown. Grave sus.
Ipicions of cowardice attached there.
/ after to their commanding officer. Had
Ewing performed his part in the plan
the bridge would have been held and
they would have been captured with
the rest. Stark's men, followed by the
rest of Sulliyan's division, were now
pushed on rapidly for the town, and
the cheers of the New England men
were distinctly heard by Washington
and his men on the main road The
main guard on the upper road almost
as completely surprised as the other by
the dashing onslaught Of the Ameri.
cans, made another futile attempt at
resistance TO Greene's column, but they
soon fell back in great disorder upon
the main body.
II was broad daylight now, and the
violence OF the storm had somewhat
abated. In the town, where the firing
had been heard, the drums OF the three
regiments We're rapidly beating the az.
sembly. Colonel Rail was In bed
sleeping on the effects OF his previous
nights indugences when he heard the
eommotlon Jumping from the bed and
running rapidly 10 tho window. still
undrossod, he thrust out his head and
asked the acting brigade adjuiant,
Bel VINO was hurrledly gallopng past,
what II was an about, There was u
total Interpretation on all slides even
a. this hour a. 10 the serious nature VI
the aiiarN ~ The confused colonel sat