Emanuel Leutze’s enormous 1851 painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” depicts the general ... s website notes that its focus on George Washington reflects a “Great Man theory ...

takes the place of George Washington. The boat is surrounded by icebergs, but what’s striking is the replacement of the historical figures in Leutze’s painting with caricatures and stereotypes.

George Washington rolling the dice ... Its cues are taken from the Emanuel Leutze painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware," a highly unlikely but powerful image of how the real-life event ...

The morning of December 26, 1776, did not start according to plan. The night before, George Washington had led 2,400 Continental Army soldiers across the Delaware River, thinking that two additional ...