Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1906 — Side Lights on History. [ARTICLE]

Side Lights on History.

The Hessians at Trenton had surrendered. “Ah, well,” they said, “think how much more disasfrous it might have been if wt had had to make a hurried retreat!” Later, as if to verify their words, came the Hessian fly.