7th » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the United States or American military as a major general.
19th » Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in 'The Pennsylvania Journal' entitled "The American Crisis".
26th » American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian (soldiers) named Hessian Mercenary e.g mercenaries.
Famous Birthdays on December in 1776
16th » Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1810)
25th » Sydney, Lady Morgan, Irish-English author (d. 1859)
27th » Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1811)
31st » Johann Spurzheim, German-American physician and phrenologist (d. 1832)