Dangerously high, fast water forced reenactors to cancel their Christmas Day 2022 crossing of the Delaware River, honoring General George Washington's famous assault of 1776.
's crossing of the Delaware River from Pennsylvania to New Jersey on Christmas Day 1776. The problem was compounded by bitterly cold temperatures and packs of ice that collected around the river-crossing craft. , who plays Gen. George Washington, told Fox News Digital, as drift ice raced down the river behind him.
Washington crossed the Delaware in Durham boats, sturdy 18th-century cargo craft designed to haul coal. Reenactors in modern times use expensive replicas of the boats. One of General Washington's reenactment crews on Sunday spent time trying to chip a boat out of the ice pack that was gathering around the riverbank.
Revolutionary War reenactors attempted to free a boat from ice along the banks of the Delaware River on Christmas Day 2022. Temperatures were 10 degrees colder than when Washington famously crossed the river during his attack on Trenton, New Jersey, on Christmas Day 1776.than it was when Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas night 1776. Two men froze to death during the attack. Only one of Washington's three attack fleets made it across the river.
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