Days of Infamy (50 page)
Authors: Newt Gingrich
His spies had told him whom he would face. A Colonel Rall. He had glimpsed him on the battlefields at Fort Washington and White Plains. Fearless and, rumor was, one of their best.
Am I a fool to think that these frozen men around me, ragged, barefoot, already soaked through, will face and defeat Rall in the morning?
Or was all hope of surprise already lost, for Rall was a professional, intelligence reports said he was a man with thirty year’s experience in war. And at this moment he and his men were warm, well fed, and resting.
He felt a dark premonition and pushed it aside. By dawn he would face Rall, and it would be the Hessian who would take the sword from his dying hand.
He turned back to watch the men beginning to file past.
“Close up the ranks, boys, and keep moving. Remember, it is victory or death.”
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