TITUSVILLE, N.J. – George Washington has made his Christmas Day trip across the Delaware River, with considerably better weather than the first time.
Re-enactors playing Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River between Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, and Titusville, New Jersey, on Thursday morning.
As opposed to the severe weather that Washington and his troops faced in 1776, the 62nd annual re-enactment was done under mostly sunny skies and a 50-degree temperature.
Re-enactors used four replica Durham boats like the ones Washington's troops used.
During the original crossing, boats ferried 2,400 soldiers, 200 horses and 18 cannons across the river. Washington's troops marched 8 miles downriver before battling Hessian mercenaries in the streets of Trenton.
Thirty Hessians were killed, and two Continental soldiers froze to death on the march.
