NARRATIVE: "The Bible tells us that stormy winds fulfill God’s Word (Psalms 148:8). God controls the weather and God knows what He is doing. God’s Hand was involved in the Revolutionary War, our country’s war for independence.

General George Washington's first challenge of the war was to outsmart the British forces which were occupying the city of Boston. The British controlled the city of Boston; Washington made Cambridge his headquarters. The British greatly outnumbered the so-called 'rebels,' and had more troops, more canons, and more gun powder. The British troops were very well trained, whereas the Americans were a group of farmers and common people. They had volunteered to fight for freedom but had little battlefield experience and little military training.

However, the Americans had a brilliant general. One night Washington pulled off a great surprise. In total silence, in the darkness of night, and with the help of favorable weather conditions (including a fog which shielded them from British eyes), he moved his army to Dorchester Heights. Being on higher ground was a huge advantage in war. At daybreak, the British commanders looking up at the Heights could scarcely believe their eyes as they saw the Americans up on higher ground. They were totally surprised. General Howe, the British general, said, 'These fellows have done more work in one night than I could make my army do in three months.' ...

The God who controls the weather played a key role in these early stages of the Revolutionary War. This was acknowledge by George Washington himself in the nation’s first inaugural address: 'No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.'"

(Sources: middletownbiblechurch.org/christia/godhand.htm; for complete documentation, see "1776" by David McCullough, and "The American Miracle" by Michael Medved)