‟Noh time fur that” - rower #2 as Jon steps into his lap

I always knew Jon had expert balance

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This painting is bullshit. I was there the other week, there’s a flipping bridge.

If the Ewoks didn't help disable that force field, this event would have been futile.

Yet, there isn't one fucking Muppet in this portrait.

I read up on this attack the other day. Pure genius, especially getting the enemy drunk.

Ha ha ha! Nice!

The actual painting at the Met Museum is enormous.

when you go to the actual Crossing and see how narrow it is you will understand that this is way hyped.

This boat would have sunk under the weight of Chris Christie.

'MERICA!

The picture may be but the successful attack was not.

It's bigger than an entire wall of my living room, I was really surprised by it. And wasn't it painted by a German guy who had never even been here but loved the story?

I grew up south of the crossing…in Trenton. So when I look at this painting I’m picturing myself looking from Trenton toward Washington’s Crossing and it appears to me he’s having the Marbleheaders row him back to PA.

not a fan. he also used slaves teeth for his dentures.

They probably didn’t realize there’s no toll on the Washington Crossing bridge, unlike the Betsy Ross/Ben Franklin/Walt Whitman.

I like the old A&E movie with Jeff Daniel's as Washington. It sorta sympathized with the Hessians at end when they note many of them would continue to live in the United States after the war.

Hate to break it to you but slavery has been around for centuries. Even before the United States was still thing.

I am aware of that. So has murder, rape..etc. Because it exists doesn't excuse any of those behaviors. If anything it is a failure to do better.

Yeah, it’s huge over 20 feet long! Really impressive in person

It's huge and no one ever really goes to see it. As a member of the Met, there has been time where I was the only one in that gallery and it's surreal.

Also, fact of the day: The river isn't the Delaware, it's actually based off a river in Europe. The Delaware doesn't get chunks that large around that time.

little did I know that GW was crossing over the Delwaware River into NJ to fight at Trenton. I always thought it was in another state.

Fun fact, Washington's second crossing back to Pennsylvannia was even more treacherous because his men raided the Hessian supplies/rum and were drunk. they kept falling into the icy waters and had to be fished out.

So life under the British leaders that did the same would’ve been better?

How are you getting that from what I said? It's wrong..period.

No more weight remarks, beeatenbyagrue. They're hurtful, and they're destructive

Oh I agree

And also with you.

For Christie or Agent Orange I make an exception!

> Colonel Henry Knox, who commanded Washington’s artillery, described the crossing in a letter to his wife on December 28: “Floating ice in the river made the labor almost incredible…Night was cold and stormy; it hailed with great violence.”

Arguably this battle at Trenton is the better turning point of the war than Saratoga which was the next battle At this time the continental army was losing bad and hard most of the time, given they were fighting the British empire as a bunch of random dudes. So morale was really low and Washington was a few weeks away from not having an army at all. This battle was such a victory, a sneak attack on Christmas against a bunch of drunk Germans, that it reinvigorated the continental army to keep fighting which brought them onto Saratoga where they were able to secure French support and the rest is history

Iirc they were drunk already given its Christmas? I might be wrong though, that's even better though if they intentionally gave the hessians alcohol

I think we can accept some things about history and historical figures while denouncing others given our modern perspective. There will probably be things about our Era future people will think it's bullshit or stupid. I'm not defending slavery at all, but the reality is slavery was intertwined into the American economy and that's why we needed a civil war to get rid of it. That was almost 100 years later from this crossing... at this time virtually nobody thought slavery was bad and frankly they had bigger fish to fry evidently. We can accept none of these people were on a high moral standing re: slavery while appreciating their impact on our country... the issue isn't black and white

yes. one would argue that if not for this battle, Continental army would've likely disbanded and the US would've remained a colony. it was one of the first victories after strings of defeat.

It’s easy to dismiss that which didn’t impact your families for generation. Maybe you can accept it. I refuse to.

When did I dismiss or accept slavery? Historians for decades have agreed (besides Ulrich Phillips, who was an actual racist) that slavery was intertwined into the US economy, especially post market rev (~1820s-40s) with cotton and textile mills, etc. Slavery wasn't even a thought in the 1700s, basically everyone accepted it like I said... I'm not accepting slavery as a good thing, just that history is multifaceted and rarely "this good this bad"

I think there's two reasons for this. 1. We're conditioned to view left to right movement as advancing, as is typical in movies and stuff. Not sure if movies are the cause of that conditioning or an effect. 2. Maps have north on top, east on the right, west on the left, so we default to interpret it as if the viewer is facing north and Washington is moving west to Pennsylvania.

The painter lived for a time in Philadelphia so I doubt he was confused about the geography. I guess the left-right movement conditioning wasn't a thing in the 1850s, or he would have painted them facing the other way. Or maybe he wanted to depict the return trip since they crossed at night, but that'd be a weird thing to paint.

But they marched to Princeton after defeating the Germans (Hessians) in Trenton.

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