Washington Crossing the Delaware

written by Thomas Jefferson but edited by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. The Declaration of Independence was a celebration of the patriot’s breakaway from the British. Another event happened on Christmas day 1776, when George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River with the hopes of capturing the Hessians who were a group that King George III paid to fight or them. With luck on the troop’s side, they captured between 900 and 1,000 prisoners and took over Trenton, New Jersey. And finally

States is electing respected leaders. Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are respected leaders featured in the works that described their aims to unite the nation. Abraham Lincoln illustrated how he was extremely “devoted … to saving the

of the year, General George Washington risked everything in harsh winter conditions to advance across the Delaware River and execute a surprise attack on Hessian troops in Trenton, N.J. An evaluation of the moments that led up to the battle, the setting, area of operations, the Continental and Opposing forces, along with the use of intelligence will reveal the major factors that led to the outcome of the battle. An analysis of the battle will illustrate how Washington devised an offensive plan that

Emanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crosses the Delaware” is a dramatization of a famous moment in American history where the Patriots rowed across the Delaware River under the cover of darkness and under the leadership of their general, George Washington. In his painting, Leutze is uses pathos of the light versus the dark to evoke national pride. The dichotomy of the two extremes is very

off quite as well as the colonists would have liked. When George Washington agreed to take command of the American forces in 1775, he probably didn't realize what he was truly getting himself into. Washington took command of an army made up of old men and young boys that had either come from their farms or the street. The army was short on weapons and gunpowder, lacked uniforms, and was racked by disease and drunkenness. Washington understood that what lies ahead would be difficult, considering he

for other fellow Americans. From the use of heart wrenching pathos in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address and The Quilt of a Country: Out of Many, One? by Anna Quindlen to the immaculate lighting in the beautifully famous painting George Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, we can see that American people will always unite and stick as one. Americans will stick together after a horrendous event has occurred or when there is beauty to rejoice about. Throughout history the United

George Washington knew that his men had exceeded their expectations with the battle on Trenton and that they had more challenges to face. George Washington knew that doing nothing would be dangerous so he turned his focus to planning another attack at Princeton. George Washington was convinced that his men couldn’t hold Trenton against British. George Washington had learned about General Charles and James Grant with the eight hundred

Yorktown was the battle that we won our independence. it had been the last battle of the Revolutionary War. General Cornwallis who was the british commander realized that day, that he was outnumbered nearly three times by the Continental Army lead by Washington, alongside the French allied ships blocking Chesapeake Bay from British Navy support, general Cornwallis realized that he had no alternative and surrendered.shortly once the treaty of paris was signed that ended the American Revolutionary War theses

surrender to Great Britain. However, George Washington was not settling with anything less than trying their best. He kept that little flicker of hope that was still left, alive. The Continental Congress did not see much hope in the war either and turned the responsibility of the war to General George Washington. Washington received a message from Congress saying, “Full power to direct all things relative… to the operations of war.” (Dupuy 63-64). Although Washington did not see this as much of an honor

Abraham Lincoln, who knows what life today would be like? He made it that the Emancipation Proclamation made the end of slavery a permanent thing, and after his death the Reconstruction Amendments 13, 14, and 15 passed. I do believe George Washington