Posted on 12/23/2023 5:11:10 AM PST by Libloather
General John Glover delivered a priceless gift to the nation.
He saved the cause of American independence on Christmas Day in 1776.
Glover was a Marblehead, Massachusetts, mariner-turned-Revolutionary War hero who led a rugged regiment of calloused New England fishermen.
This famed Marblehead militia ferried George Washington and 2,400 troops in row boats across the ice-choked Delaware River on the night of Dec. 25 with the American rebellion on the brink of collapse.
The daring assault overwhelmed a garrison of 1,400 Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey, who were fighting on behalf of the British crown.
It was a stunning victory that reversed the course of the American Revolution and, ultimately, reshaped world history.
"This was a major military crossing under extraordinarily difficult circumstances," American Battlefield Trust historian Kristopher White told Fox News Digital.
"More than just men, there were horses, provisions and artillery. Washington came armed for a fight."
The daring triumph after a year of humiliating losses was, by many accounts, a Christmas miracle.
German-American painter Emanuel Leutze immortalized the attack in 1851.
"Washington Crossing the Delaware" hangs today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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To the credit of the author, he mentions that the enlistments of Washington’s army were about to expire. Washington had to use it or lose it.
He used to cut our grass
BTTT
Washington may have crossed the Delaware but it wasn't at the place called "Washington's Crossing". It's a fast moving current, rolling like a big blender.
God was with them, for sure.
About 7 or 8 years ago, on Christmas Day, the husband and I went to Washington’s Crossing State Park in Pennsylvania to watch a re-enactment of the Crossing. They do this twice every year. The first time is about a week before. They refer to it as a rehearsal.
Highly recommend the experience if you can get to that park. Really brings it home.
Providence, indeed.
Bkmk
I would venture to guess that the river doesn’t look quite the same as it did back in colonial times.
The Delaware River is tidal as far up as Trenton.
How do you think Washington crossed it - a bridge?
Reminds me of a comic skit with Milton Berle from 60 or so years ago. He is a brilliant scientist who has lived forever. In showing other scientists his collection of images from the past one showed him in the boat with George Washington crossing the Delaware.
One of the other scientists grabs the potion Berle has made and drinks it down! Berle says “You are not supposed to drink it, you soak your feet in it!”
He had to have crossed it many miles North to wind up at Trenton. That’s my point. A 100HP bass boat can barely hold its own against that current. It just didn’t happen the way lure tells it.
At least ten miles up stream as a crossing point to arrive in Trenton.
I had a distant ancestor who was one of the rowers.
Family lore is that in his old age, he gave to a grandson a piece of Continental scrip that Washington gave him for his services.
Wouldn’t we love to know whatever happened to that!
How liberty was born and the birth of America.
And now look at what the democrats are doing to it.
Democrats, if not voted out of office at every level of government, will soon promote the banishment of all statuary and paintings such as the one referred to here because there are only white men depicted, and that’s racist and sexist!
PS
The state line between Pennsylvania and New Jersey runs down the center of the Delaware River, shown above.
And now look at what the democrats are doing to it.
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Wouldn’t surprise me to find them approving the burning of all such paintings
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