Season 1 · Episode 3

The Times That Try Men's Souls: 1776-1777

• Release date
• November 24, 1997
• Runtime
• 54 min

Days after the Declaration of Independence is signed, a British force arrives in New York harbor. Washington and his troops are driven to New Jersey. With only a few days of enlistment left for many of his volunteers, a desperate Washington leads his army quietly across the Delaware River on the day after Christmas, 1776, to mount a surprise attack on a sleeping garrison in Trenton.