Washington Crossing the Delaware

By Christmas of 1776 the Revolution was all but finished. Washington's army had been chased across New Jersey, enlistments were only days from expiring, and Thomas Paine had just written that these were “the times that try men's souls.”

So Washington gambled everything. On Christmas night, in a howling nor'easter, he ferried 2,400 men and their cannon across the ice-choked Delaware River in the dark — the watchword that night was “Victory or Death.” At dawn they marched nine miles to Trenton and fell on its Hessian garrison before it could form up, taking nearly 900 prisoners in under an hour.

The strike cost almost no American lives and rescued a dying cause. Men reenlisted, recruits poured in, and a war that had seemed lost roared back to life. It endures as the most audacious gamble in American history.

Printed on 200 gsm matte poster stock and mounted behind shatter-resistant acrylic in a 22 mm deep pine frame, available in black, natural wood or dark wood. The print is fitted into the frame before it ships, so it arrives assembled with hanging hardware in place, ready for a portrait or landscape wall.