Washington Crossing

Washington Crossing may refer to:

Places:

  • Washington's Crossing, the location in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania, a U.S. National Historic Landmark
  • Washington Crossing State Park, Titusville, New Jersey
  • Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
  • Washington Crossing Historic Park, Pennsylvania
  • Washington Crossing Bridge

A historical event:

  • Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, a famous American Revolutionary War event that took place on the night of December 25–26, 1776

Art and literature about the event:

  • Washington Crossing the Delaware, a painting commemorating the crossing
  • Washington Crossing the Delaware (sonnet), a sonnet by David Schulman about the scene in the painting
  • Washington's Crossing (book), a book by David Hackett Fischer
  • The Crossing (2000 film), an A&E television movie starring Jeff Daniels as George Washington

Famous quotes containing the words washington and/or crossing:

    “I thought it altogether proper that I should take a brief furlough from official duties at Washington to mingle with you here to-day as a comrade, because every President of the United States must realize that the strength of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is to muster under its banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be found here in the masses of our people.”
    —Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)

    “This was charming, no doubt: but they shortly found out
    That the Captain they trusted so well
    Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
    And that was to tingle his bell.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)