At night on Christmas in 1776, the Patriots scored a victory at Trenton. The Battle of Trenton is the first major victory for the Continental Army. With General Washington leading the attack against Trenton and the Hessian troops sober from their Christmas celebrations, they were easily defeated while the Americans had only lost 2 soldiers.
<span>The western German tribes consisted of the Marcomanni, Alamanni, Franks, Angles, and Saxons, while the Eastern tribes north of the Danube consisted of the Vandals, Gepids, Ostrogoths, and Visigoths. The Alans, Burgundians, and Lombards are less easy to define.</span>
The role of The Protestant Reformation in the history of the United States of America. Over the centuries there had been many reform efforts within the Catholic Church, The term Protestant was not initially applied to the reformers, but later was used to describe all groups protesting Roman Catholic orthodoxy.
Andrew Jackson was one of the most powerful and influential presidents of the nineteenth century. Jackson implemented polices that profoundly affected the territorial, political, and economic development of the united states. He organized the relocation of more than 90,000 indians from the eastern united states to territories west of the Mississippi River. He strengthened the union by rejecting South Carolina's claim that it possessed the authority to nullify federal laws. AND he destroyed the bank of the united states, leaving the nation without a central bank capable of monitoring the nations money supply. He was considered the common mans president. He was also involved in many duels.
