The " Ambush of Geary " on December 14, 1776, helped rein in British scouting parties in Hunterdon County in the crucial weeks before Washington's crossing of the Delaware.

Kingwood Township is famous for Captain Daniel Bray, the local captain who rounded up the boats for George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War.

The Battle of Trenton took place on December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey.

* Before Washington's crossing of the Delaware River at the Battle of Trenton in 1776, " Victory " was the password and " Or Death " was the response

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

It commemorates General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River on the night of December 25 – 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War.

The flag depicted is the original flag of the United States ( the " Stars and Stripes "), the design of which did not exist at the time of Washington's crossing.

The flag's design was specified in the June 14, 1777, Flag Resolution of the Second Continental Congress, and flew for the first time on September 3, 1777 — well after Washington's crossing in 1776.

Finally, Washington's stance, obviously intended to depict him in a heroic fashion, would have been very hard to maintain in the stormy conditions of the crossing.

During the American Revolution, it was a critical crossing point for Gen. George Washington's Continental Army retreating toward White Plains to safely escape from New York while being chased by the Colonial British and Hessian Forces.

The area includes a post office with its own ZIP code ( 08560 ), a small village of homes, and a large park dedicated to George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River in 1776.

Titusville is just north of the Johnson Ferry ( later named Taylor's Ferry ) House, the scene of Washington's crossing of the Delaware during the American Revolution.

Each year on Christmas Day, General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River is commemorated at Washington Crossing State Park, which lies at the south end of Titusville.

The annual reenactment depicts General Washington's December 25, 1776 nighttime river crossing and the attack on the morning of December 26 on the Hessian troops in Trenton, which was one of the key battles of the American Revolutionary War.

Formerly known as " Taylorsville ," it is most famous for Washington's crossing of the Delaware River on the night of December 25 – 26, 1776 during the American Revolutionary War.

* Washington's crossing of the Delaware

The book is primarily about George Washington's leadership during the 1776 campaign of the American Revolutionary War, culminating with the famous crossing of the Delaware River and the subsequent campaign: Battle of Trenton, the Second Battle of Trenton and the Battle of Princeton.

* Washington's crossing of the Delaware River

One of Washington's men reported that the French force was accompanied by Shawnee, Delaware, and Mingo native warriors — just those whom Tanaghrisson was seeking to influence.

Examples include electoral districts such as Washington's 6th congressional district and Tennessee's 1st congressional district ; school districts such as Granite School District and Los Angeles Unified School District ; economic districts such as the Reedy Creek Improvement District ; metropolitan areas such as the Seattle metropolitan area, and metropolitan districts such as the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, the Metropolitan Police Service of Greater London, as well as other local districts like the York Rural Sanitary District, the Delaware River Port Authority, the Nassau County Soil and Water Conservation District, and C-TRAN.

By noon, Washington's force had moved across the Delaware back into Pennsylvania, taking their prisoners and captured supplies with them.

General George Washington's Continental Army had crossed the Delaware River to make a surprise attack on the Hessians on the early morning of December 26, 1776.

On September 27, 1777, participated in a delaying action on the Delaware River against the British army pursuing George Washington's forces.

Lieutenant Colonel William Washington's mounted men and Captain Robert Kirkwood's Delaware infantry companies formed the tail of the column.

Champion and his son Epaphroditus gathered a herd of 300 at Hartford and drove them west to King's Ferry, across the Hudson, into New Jersey, across the Delaware to Washington's famished troops west of the Schuylkill.

He participated in a deception operation that left the Hessians in Trenton unprepared for Washington's attack across the Delaware River on December 26, 1776.

There are rumors that Mercer exclusively originated Washington's daring plan to cross the Delaware River and surprise the Hessians at the Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776, and he was certainly a major contributor to its execution.

Bowman's Hill Tower was built to commemorate what may have been a lookout point for General George Washington's troops to watch the banks of the Delaware River for enemy activity.

Today the park serves to preserve and interpret the site of the Washington's Crossing of the Delaware.

Apocryphal stories about Washington's childhood include a claim that he skipped a silver dollar across the Potomac River at Mount Vernon.

There are plans to remove the Condit Dam on Washington's White Salmon River, and the Milltown Dam on the Clark Fork in Montana.

Washington's map of the Ohio River and surrounding region containing notes on French intentions, 1753 or 1754.

While General George Washington's defeat on the battlefield may have cast early doubts on his abilities as a military tactician and leader, he did keep the Continental Army intact with an overnight tactical retreat, across the East River.

* The ridgeline running east-west along Washington's northern boundary, between Lake Waramaug and the Shepaug River, forms the edge of the northern portion of the Highlands of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

Le Comte de Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, marched through and camped in the town during the American Revolutionary War on his way from landing at Narragansett Bay to join George Washington's forces on the Hudson River in 1781.

In November 1776, a farmer from Closter witnessed British troops landing at Closter Dock on the Hudson River and rode to Fort Lee to warn Continental Army General Nathaniel Greene, allowing the Americans the opportunity to retreat to Hackensack at New Bridge Landing ahead of the British along with the remnants of General George Washington's troops after the failed Battle of Fort Washington.

According to a plaque at Samuel S. Lewis State Park, which overlooks Wrightsville and the Susquehanna River, Wrightsville was George Washington's first choice as location of the capital of the United States.

Vernon, George Washington's Home on the Potomac River lie just to the North.

In 1726, at the urging of her brother Augustine Washington ( George Washington's father ), Mildred sold him the Potomac River estate.

The construction of this operational distillery cost $ 2. 1 M and is located on the exact site of Washington's original distillery, a short distance from his mansion on the Potomac River.

* In Herr's Island, a island on the western bank of the Allegheny River, a former rail stop for livestock and meatpacking was transformed into Washington's Landing, a waterfront center for commerce, manufacturing, recreation and upscale housing

The success of the Canadiens was underscored during the French and Indian War by George Washington's defeat at Great Meadows and Edward Braddock's embarrassment at the Monongahela River.

Before construction of the Lake Washington Ship Canal in 1916, Lake Washington's outlet was the Black River, which joined the Duwamish River and emptied into Elliott Bay.

Springfield sits at a natural crossroads, at the confluence of four rivers: to the west, the 78. 1 mile Westfield River, ( the Connecticut River's longest tributary river in Massachusetts ;) in the middle, the 418. 0 mile Connecticut River, then known as " The Great River ;" and to the east two smaller rivers: the 18. 0 mile Chicopee River, which featured the fast moving and the Connecticut River's largest water basin ; and also, the Mill River, which would become very important approximately 150 years later after George Washington's foundation of the U. S. Armory at Springfield.