Emanuel Leutze’s enormous 1851 painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” depicts the general’s journey on Dec. 25, 1776, as he launched a surprise attack on hundreds of Hessian troops ...
Sandra Jackson-Dumont is the director and CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art since 2020, which opens to the public in ...
The morning of December 26, 1776, did not start according to plan. The night before, George Washington had led 2,400 ...
Leanne Keefer-Bechdel has been in a room with six Benjamin Franklins. In the world of historical reenactment, she said that ...
George Washington rolling the dice and crossing the Delaware River with a ragtag army of Continentals to rout British and Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey. Without a win, the American ...
A website containing “data, updates and other materials” about renovations to or the replacement of the historic Washington Crossing Bridge has been set up by the Delaware River Joint Toll ...
The night before, George Washington had led 2,400 Continental Army soldiers across the Delaware River, thinking that two additional troop columns were doing the same at other designated crossing ...