This Day in History: George Washington crosses the Delaware

ILLUSTRATIONS: (1-3) Washington leads the Delaware River crossing.

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I started looking into Washington crossing the Delaware and came upon General John Glover and his Marblehead men. Glover doesn’t seem to get the print he deserves. Of all the boats that started out across the Delaware river that night only boats manned by Marblehead men made it across. The Marblehead men were diverse, made up of free blacks, Native Americans etc. and America’s first special ops soldiers. They were mostly fisherman used to hardships of the sea and skilled boats man.The Marblehead men saved Washington and the American revolution 3 times. They evacuated Washington and 9,000 of his soldiers along with cannons, horses and supplies from Long Island under the nose of the British after Washington was forced to retreat. The Americans were cornered and at dawn the British thought they would destroy the American forces. Instead they found the Americans had escaped across the river thanks to Glover. Then General Glover and 750 of the Marblehead men held off 4,000 British troops so Washington could get away at the battle of Pell’s point.

The very start of us becoming the USA, and I do salute these brave men.