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Emanuel Leutze's famous 1851 depiction of Washington Crossing the Delaware, 2 Geography The civilian population of northern Mexico offered little resistance to the American invasion possibly because the country had already been devastated by Comanche and Apache Indian raids Josiah Gregg who was with the American army in northern Mexico said that "the whole country from New Mexico to the borders of Durango is almost entirely depopulated the haciendas and ranchos have been mostly abandoned and the people chiefly confined to the towns and cities.". World Tourism Organization: Madrid Robert R Livingston member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence 6.3 1860 presidential election. .

Washington D.C. Business Directory, Creating a "more perfect union" and guaranteeing rights 4.3 Crossing the Delaware Trenton and Princeton. The British still controlled New York and many Patriot soldiers did not reenlist or had deserted after the harsh winter campaign Congress instituted greater rewards for re-enlisting and punishments for desertion in an effort to effect greater troop numbers. Strategically Washington's victories were pivotal for the Revolution and quashed the British strategy of showing overwhelming force followed by offering generous terms in February 1777 word reached London of the American victories at Trenton and Princeton and the British realized that the Patriots were in a position to demand unconditional independence, In 1779 the Americans forced the hostile Indians out of upstate New York when Washington sent an army under John Sullivan which destroyed 40 empty Iroquois villages in central and western New York the Battle of Newtown proved decisive as the Patriots had an advantage of three-to-one and it ended significant resistance; there was little combat otherwise Sullivan systematically burned the empty villages and destroyed about 160,000 bushels of corn that composed the winter food supply Facing starvation and homeless for the winter the Iroquois fled to Canada the British resettled them in Ontario providing land grants as compensation for some of their losses.