How did the american win at the battles of trenton and princeton?

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As the coach of the u. s. olympic cycling team, i can state without question that the swedish and french teams were using illegal steroids. how else could they have beaten us so badly in the last competition? the u. s. team trained much harder and was much more skilled than our opponents. we only lost because a few teams cheated.

Which document did the second continental congress send king george iii to refaffirm colonist allegiance to him but not to parliament