A company of yaegers and the light dragoons slipped away, there was a little confused fighting in the streets, Colonel Rahl fell, mortally wounded, his Hessians threw down their arms, and all was over.

The battle had been fought and won, and the Revolution was saved.
[Illustration: WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE] Taking his thousand prisoners with him, Washington recrossed the Delaware to his old position.

Had all done their duty, as he had planned, the British hold on New Jersey would have been shattered.

As it was, it was only loosened.

Congress, aroused at last, had invested Washington with almost dictatorial powers; but the time for action was short.