how the US was won According to the English historian George Bancroft, the most ambitious chess victim suffered because the British Empire. As if on the eve of the Battle of Trenton, December 26, 1776 the North American colonies in the war for independence the commander of the British troops, Colonel Joan Rell played chess and carried away on a wooden board events scattered pocketed delivered his urgent report. But it said that the rebels led by George Washington crossed the Delaware. Using the element of surprise (after all, the reaction to the report Rella not followed!), Washington won the battle. "If not for this unfortunate incident - claimed Bancroft - the very idea of the historical emergence of the United States may have disappeared without a trace, like the flickering lights of the fading flame." Interestingly, whether the scientist with his colleagues on the other side of the Atlantic?