 with two or three hundred captured while the Americans incredibly only lost three or four dozen. And again Washington ordered the humane treatment of his prisoners. Now the news of the two victories in Trenton and Princeton electrified the American people. You have to remember that just a few days earlier the cause was gasping for its last breath. But since then the Americans had stood face to face with the British army and won. Now the Patriots believe that they might actually be able to win the war