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unskilled and destitute colonists that they were good
for something as soldiers, and that their cause was not
hopeless. Coming after a long course of retreat and
disaster, it inspired them with fresh courage. Bunker
Hill had taught the Americans that British regulars
could be resisted. Trenton proved to them in an
hour of despondency that the dreaded Hessians could
be conquered.
