George Washington’s Christmas Crossing An annual holiday tradition since 1952, re-enactors bring Washington crossing the Delaware to life ...

How "Washington Crossing the Delaware," a painting by Emanuel Leutze, went 19th-century viral and became an emblem of U.S. patriotism.

Washington crossing the Delaware, near Trenton, New Jersey, on Christmas 1776. George Washington, 1732-1799 — first president of the United States. From English and Scottish History, published 1882.

On Christmas day, 1776, George Washington’s Continental Army crossed the Delaware River to attack the British forces at the Battle of Trenton, in what Kelsey Grammer called "the most daring ...

A look at Gen. George Washington’s Christmas crossing of the Delaware River and the art that it inspired. High stakes in the war. It was the winter of 1776.

On Christmas night 1776, George Washington kept our Continental Army “spirited and gallant” in its darkest hours, and thereby delivered the “brilliant stroke” and “lucky blow” needed ...

At Christmas, many people travel to a certain place to celebrate, like a childhood home or the house of a friend of loved one. But for John B. Kelly, 71, of Drexel Hill, Christmas means traveling ...

Gen. George Washington and his tired and tiny Continental Army scored one of the most significant battlefield victories in American history at Christmas in 1776.

The Virginia Capitol Foundation's Christmas ornament features George Washington, rendered in the marble statue French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon created from direct measurements he took from the ...

We could honor George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. ... Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day as federal holidays. Washington's Birthday was first observed on Feb. 22, 1880, ...