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WASHINGTON CROSSING — Safety concerns kept George Washington from completing his annual Christmas Day ride across the Delaware River. The 60th annual re-enactment of Washington’s daring ...
WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. — Organizers hope to go ahead with the annual reenactment of George Washington’s daring Christmas Day crossing of the Delaware River in 1776. The event was scrapped ...
On the evening of Dec. 25, 1776, then-General George Washington crossed the Delaware River. On Dec. 11, 2016, Revolutionary War re-enactors did it again.
WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — Hundreds gathered on both sides of the Delaware River to watch an annual Christmas Day reenactment of George Washington’s 1776 crossing, a year after pandemic ...
Friedman took a snapshot of the West Trenton Railroad Bridge Crossing the Delaware River about 15 minutes before this morning's sunrise. It is just a few miles south of where Washington made his ...
Painted to inspire a sense of patriotism among 19th-century Americans, Washington Crossing the Delaware still has cultural sticking power today. Courtesy of Christie's Images, Ltd. 2022. On the ...
The famous “Washington Crossing the Delaware” painting, which hung in the White House from the 1970s to 2014, is coming up for auction next month, when it is estimated to fetch about $20 million.
In 2021, while wrapping up research for a book about images depicting George Washington’s 1776 crossing of the Delaware River, the historian Patricia E. Millen spotted a one-line reference to a ...
Major Pete Hegseth narrates the pageantry at the 2021 re-enactment of Washington Crossing the Delaware. (Jeff Werner/Patch) Major Pete Hegseth after landing on the New Jersey side of the Delaware.
Essay. The Deeper Meaning of ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’ The iconic painting by Emanuel Leutze is often criticized today for being historically inaccurate and simplistically patriotic ...
Hundreds gathered on both sides of the Delaware River to watch an annual Christmas Day reenactment of George Washington’s 1776 crossing, a year after pandemic restrictions forced viewers to watch it ...