#1486 Ten Things About Crossing the Delaware

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🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Clay Jenkinson and Lindsay Chervinsky discuss ten things about an event rather than an individual: the crossing of the Delaware River by George Washington and the Continental Army in a surprise attack on Christmas night, 1776.

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0:00.0	Good day, Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners, and as always, thank you so much for listening.
0:05.4	We really appreciate it. This week we've got a good one for you.
0:08.8	Lindsay Chervinsky is back and the subject is crossing the Delaware.
0:14.1	Crossing the Delaware, both the famous painting by Emmanuel Lutz, who was German and who painted it,
0:19.8	by the way, in Düsseldorf. The first one perished in a 1942 air raid over Germany by the Allied
0:29.5	Air Forces. But there was a second one that he had done in 1851. That's the one that wound up
0:34.8	in the United States and is now a magnificent 21 by 12 foot epic painting in New York City.
0:42.7	You know, here's what I found so remarkable today. First of all, I love this 10-thing series
0:47.5	with Lindsay Chervinsky. She's funny. But here's what I find so it's you, my friend. You do your
0:54.6	research. You knew things that neither one of us knew. You quoted some letters that I've never
1:00.0	seen quoted before. You asked extraordinary questions. Well, really, really, you know, when I say
1:04.7	this in the show, it's that book that Rick Atkinson wrote. He's writing a trilogy on the American
1:10.2	Revolution and the first volume is out and it's called The British Are Coming. And if you just read
1:17.5	the one chapter about crossing the Delaware, everything changes. Everything changed for me.
1:23.9	You know, we have, you know, like I was, you guys got hung up on the painting quite a bit and I
1:28.2	understand that. But that's kind of like a caricature of history that everybody is sort of accepted
1:36.1	and goes, wow, and they should. But the reality of it is so much more amazing. When you start
1:43.2	reading about what the soldiers actually did and how none of it worked, but it all worked, it's
1:48.8	an amazing story. It's great. Anyway, since Lindsay has joined the ranks here, we get a lot of
1:55.2	mail about her and a lot of suggestions about this 10 things series that I'm sure the two of you
2:02.8	will plot and scheme and get get onto the calendar, right? That we certainly will. And we do want
2:08.7	feedback on this series and also on the one-on-one series. As you know, David, sometimes I need to
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