Common Sense, the Declaration of Independence, and the Battle of Saratoga were major events that were part of the timeline of the Revolutionary War. Patriots1 put these events and others together like a puzzle, and the result was a brand new nation. However, this puzzle is incomplete without the important piece of George Washington successfully crossing the Delaware River in 1776. My goal in this paper is to explain the importance of the crossing of the Delaware River pertaining to the Revolutionary War, and pertaining to the history of the United States as a whole. To fulfill this goal, I have organized my paper into three main sections. In the first section, I provide a brief recap of the events in the Revolutionary War that lead up to the
