Howe had served under General James Wolfe, who called him "the best officer in the King's service.... Joseph Reed, Washington's adjutant general, wrote to the commander on December 22, urging him to take action: "Our affairs are hastening fast to ruin if we not retrieve them by some happy event. ... In a blinding blizzard, Washington managed to move his troops across the Delaware River at night on December 25. ...

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The Treaty of Ghent was signed on December 24, 1814 and established the status quo ante bellum, which means that the previously existing boundaries between the US and the British were the same as they were before the war. ... Desperate for sailors to man their warships, British captains increasingly boarded American ships and "impressed" sailors into service, claiming that the merchant seamen were deserters from the Royal Navy. ...

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