He would fight but he never wanted to be captured like cornwallis was at yorktown or. In was in saratoga. He wanted to avoid that kind of disaster. That would have ended the revolution. So he would always want to live to fight another day in his battles and the important thing was to keep the revolution going and keep the army in the field and i believe new jersey and general entrance and in particular was very instrumental in helping him accomplish that goal. It served the Continental Army as a hospital right where we are standing here to barracks. The barracks was an Army Hospital during the revolution. Its where washington made one of his major sort of innovations at that time i inoculating all of his troops against smallpox and saved his army which might have been wiped out in 1776, not by the british but by the smallpox. He played a role in that. In addition trenton because of his location between new york and philadelphia, was a major supply depot and the army needed food and tre