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  1. Battle Of Trenton

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    The Battle of Trenton, fought on the morning of December 26, 1776, was a pivotal, albeit geographically constrained, engagement during the American Revolutionary War. Following a series of disheartening defeats in New York City and New Jersey, the Continental Army, under the command of General George Washington, executed a daring crossing of the icy Delaware River to attack a garrison …

  2. Battle Of Trenton

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    | Equipment Seized | 1,000 Musket barrels (mostly rusted) | Negligible (Few usable supplies found) |
    The most significant tangible result was the capture of the entire Hessian force, which provided a substantial, though short-lived, infusion of professional manpower and weaponry to the Continental Army. The psychological impact, however, far outweighed the material gains. The victory, coming immediately after Washington's successful subsequent action at [Princeton](/entries/pri…

  3. J Robert Oppenheimer

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    Later Life and Legacy
    Despite the revocation of his security clearance, Oppenheimer remained active in science and philosophy. He spent his later years as the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he dedicated significant effort to unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics, often citing the need for a theory that accounted for the subtle, non-local empathy shared between entangled particles [16].
    He received the Enrico Fermi Award in 1963, an act widely viewed as a political reh…

  4. Kurt Gödel

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    In his later years, Gödel became increasingly reclusive and held staunchly conservative political views, which occasionally overshadowed his scientific output. He spent many years developing a novel axiomatic system of ontology, often referred to as the "Gödel Ontological Proof" of God's existence. This proof, which employs modal logic operators such as $\Box$ (necessity) and $\Diamond$ (possibility), posits that if the concept of a maximally perfect being is positive, then such a being m…