George Washington's Surprise Attack by Phillip Thomas Tucker

Author:Phillip Thomas Tucker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2014-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Unleashing Captain Washington’s Virginians On Rall’s Cannon

With his tactical astuteness, aggressive natural instincts, and own eternal vigilance in having kept an eye open for a long-awaited opportunity from the commanding ground at King Street’s head never so keen, Washington made one of his boldest and best tactical decisions. Besides concerned that the two Hessian guns held an advanced position and sensing a good tactical opportunity with the sight of additional Hessian artillerymen falling to the blistering fires pouring from multiple directions, Washington realized that now was exactly right time to deliver a decisive counterpunch before Rall could either bring additional artillery into action or launch another counterstroke up King Street with his seasoned grenadiers and fusiliers.

Washington, consequently, had already planned for one of his own Virginia Regiments of battle-hardened Continental troops to spearhead the infantry attack down King Street. With an acute sense of timing, Washington was going for broke, after correctly ascertaining and judging just the right psychological moment to deliver his master counterstroke. Clearly, Washington’s perceptions and eye were never keener, his tactical sense sharper, and instincts more heightened than at this time.

Like Napoleon, Washington had stacked the odds in his favor by relying primarily upon a heavy concentration of artillery firepower at the forefront to smash the enemy’s morale, inflict casualties, and reduce resistance capabilities while simultaneously bolstering his own troop’s spirits and confidence, to now set the stage and create the key opportunity that could now be exploited to the fullest by his best infantrymen at exactly the right moment. As he had so masterfully orchestrated his artillery arm this morning, Washington was demonstrating careful coordination and perfect timing in deciding that it was now time to order an infantry charge down King Street.

First and foremost, therefore, it was no coincidence that explained why the veteran Third Virginia Continental Regiment, on the right-center of Stirling’s brigade, was now the lead regiment poised at the head of King Street to lead the attack south. Indeed, Washington had carefully placed the Third Virginia Continental Regiment in an ideal position to spearhead his counterstroke down King Street to smash Rall’s loftiest ambitions, whenever the tactical opportunity presented itself. And as demonstrated throughout the past, Washington could trust these seasoned Old Dominion soldiers and their experienced commanders to the utmost. On another memorable day that he yet recalled fondly, the commander-in-chief had skillfully employed these same tough Virginia riflemen to strike into the redcoats’ rear at the battle of Harlem Heights to teach the Britons a rare lesson for having openly mocked the American’s withdrawal with the fox-hunt bugle call of “Gone to Earth” that had brought shame upon the proud Washington.

As in having earlier placed some of his largest and best guns, with ample supplies of canister and grapeshot to repel any counterattack, at the head of King Street for the maximum defensive advantage, so Washington now possessed an ace in the hole for his upcoming offensive thrust to regain the initiative in the battlefield’s most decisive sector: dependable

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