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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
&gt;His biggest victory came from killing mercenaries in their beds on Christmas.

Do we not consider this shitty? Even when I was a kid and first heard it I felt something wasn't right. 

Edit: so that's because it didn't fucking happen. They weren't drunk, the colonists didn't slip into their rooms and slit their throats, it was a surprise attack, and they were spotted during the first charge, and less than fifty people died. Why did American public school teach that Washington slit a thousand men's throats while they were incapacitated?
gpt
You have to also view the context of the Hessians. Everyone was afraid of their discipline, military prowess and brutality. The declaration of independence specifically called out the Hessians. 

"Transporting large armies of foreign mercaneries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty &amp; perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation."

The Americans were pissed the british used foreign mercs on them. It wasn't even completely decided that this wasn't going to just be a rebellion and the US and the UK would rejoin. Using Hessians on the continental americans galvanized the cause and was possibly one of the Crowns largest blunders if they wanted to reunite.

It was a bit of a underhanded move to attack them on Christmas. But colonists really hated them, and it was used as good propaganda that they were being killed and were vulnerable.