Long-ish history lesson describing a time, before global warming, when winters got really cold. I can't imagine what they went through.
To: Libloather
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.
To: Libloather
3 posted on
12/23/2023 5:25:52 AM PST by
AppyPappy
(Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
To: Libloather
4 posted on
12/23/2023 5:27:52 AM PST by
nopardons
To: Libloather
If you have ever been on the Delaware River, you know there is no way anyone rowed a boat from shore to shore. A boat to cross the river would have to start out about five miles upstream because the river currents are so fast and powerful. A boat crossing at 90 degrees to the current would tip over right away.
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.
5 posted on
12/23/2023 6:31:44 AM PST by
blackdog
((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
To: Libloather
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.
6 posted on
12/23/2023 6:32:53 AM PST by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: Libloather
8 posted on
12/23/2023 7:18:43 AM PST by
sauropod
(The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
To: Libloather
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!”
To: Libloather
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!
14 posted on
12/23/2023 8:48:39 AM PST by
silverleaf
(“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
To: Libloather
How liberty was born and the birth of America.
And now look at what the democrats are doing to it.
15 posted on
12/23/2023 9:08:53 AM PST by
Vaduz
(....)
To: Libloather
New Jersey named a town after the site: Washington Crossing.
17 posted on
12/23/2023 9:37:13 AM PST by
Albion Wilde
(Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
To: Libloather
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!
18 posted on
12/23/2023 9:38:08 AM PST by
fortes fortuna juvat
(Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
22 posted on
12/23/2023 9:54:30 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Libloather
It was a ballsy move
Caught the Hessians hangovering
Could have been a debacle
34 posted on
12/24/2023 9:31:30 AM PST by
wardaddy
(I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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