The tide had been turned, and Washington had won the precious breathing-time which was all he required.
Frederick the Great is reported to have said that this was the most brilliant campaign of the century.

It certainly showed all the characteristics of the highest strategy and most consummate generalship.

With a force numerically insignificant as compared with that opposed to him, Washington won two decisive victories, striking the enemy suddenly with superior numbers at each point of attack.
The Trenton campaign has all the quality of some of the last battles fought by Napoleon in France before his retirement to Elba.

Moreover, these battles show not only generalship of the first order, but great statesmanship.

They display that prescient knowledge which recognizes the supreme moment when all must be risked to save the state.