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Show Tradition Helped As Washington Crossed River During the American Revolution, Revo-lution, George Washington used his knowledge of Christmas Christ-mas celebrations to take an Important step toward peace. Puritan settlers in the New World disapproved of Christmas Christ-mas festivities, but Washington Washing-ton knew that the Hessian soldiers, employed by Georgs III to fight the colonists, would observe Christmas as they hao. done at home. On December 25-26, 1776, he crossed the Delaware, attacked and put to rout the surprised Hessians who had been obliviously oblivi-ously sleeping off the effects of their holiday festivities. |