Washington Crossing the Delaware and American Ideals in One Painting

<![CDATA[On Christmas night 1776, in one of his greatest strokes of genius, George Washington crossed the Delaware with the help of daring men and launched a successful surprise attack on British-allied Hessians at Trenton. Decades later, a German immigrant to America depicted this crossing in an artistic masterpiece which not only commemorated history, but illustrated and celebrated everything best about America’s founding ideals of liberty and equality.]]>