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Christmas 2022 proved too frigid even for those hoping to emulate the Father of His Country<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Historical actors and enthusiasts were forced on Sunday to nix their annual reenactment of General George Washington<\/a>‘s crossing of the Delaware River from Pennsylvania to New Jersey on Christmas Day 1776.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Extremely high and rapidly moving water made it unsafe to impossible to cross the river this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

MEET THE AMERICAN WHO ROWED WASHINGTON ACROSS THE DELAWARE ON CHRISTMAS: SAILOR-SOLDIER JOHN GLOVER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The problem was compounded by bitterly cold temperatures and packs of ice that collected around the river-crossing craft.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The river is flowing too fast,” John Godzieba of Langhorne, Pennsylvania<\/a>, who plays Gen. George Washington, told Fox News Digital, as drift ice raced down the river behind him.<\/p>\n

“The men cannot generate enough power with four oars in the river to get across,” he also said.<\/p>\n

Even desperate wartime leader General Washington would have been forced to postpone his plan by 24-48 hours under the same conditions, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

TIM TEBOW REVEALS HIS AFTER-CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE TO ALL, \u2018EVEN IF IT FEELS SCARY\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Washington crossed the Delaware in Durham boats, sturdy 18th-century cargo craft designed to haul coal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The boats were built to go up and down the river, but not across it.<\/p>\n

Reenactors in modern times use expensive replicas of the boats.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of General Washington’s reenactment crews on Sunday spent time trying to chip a boat out of the ice pack that was gathering around the riverbank.<\/p>\n

The scene this year was reminiscent of the overly dramatic packs of ice in artist Emanuel Leutze’s famous 1851 painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it was much colder here on Christmas 2022<\/a> than it was when Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas night 1776. <\/p>\n

Historians believe it was 28-33 degrees on Christmas 1776.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two men froze to death during the attack. Only one of Washington’s three attack fleets made it across the river.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was about 10 degrees colder this year \u2014 ranging from the high teens to the low 20s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, a crowd of about 2,000 people, according to organizers, lined the river bank for speeches, marches and musters by reenactors this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The festivities included speeches, fife and drum corps performances, a muster of troops and cannon fire from period artillery units.<\/p>\n

There was just no attempt to row across the icy Delaware.<\/p>\n

River crossings are possible when the river flows at about 22,000 cubic feet per second, according to reenactor, tavern owner and former Air Force pilot<\/a> Frank Lyons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Godzieba put the high threshold at 27,000 cubic feet per second.<\/p>\n

The river on Sunday, Christmas Day, was flowing at 36,000 cubic feet per second.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lyon plays the role of Revolutionary War hero John Glover, who was charged with ferrying General Washington and his army across the river in 1776.<\/p>\n

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, AUGUST 10, 1776, DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE REACHES LONDON<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

It took a “heroic effort,” in the words of Washington confidante General Henry Knox, by Glover and his unit of seasoned Massachusetts mariners to ferry the Continental Army across the Delaware River.<\/p>\n

But conditions this year were even worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The rapid water would have forced the boats as much as a half mile down the river.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Washington led a force of 2,400 men, plus horses, supplies and cannons, on a daring road across the Delaware River in 1776.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They attacked and overwhelmed a garrison of Hessian troops, fighting on behalf of the British, in Trenton, New Jersey<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The attack turned the tide of the Revolutionary War and saved the cause of American independence.<\/p>\n

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The Delaware River traces its source to the Catskill Mountains of New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Heavy rain or snow in the higher elevations upriver create the dangerous high water in the 800 foot-wide expanse where Washington crossed the river a few miles north of Trenton.<\/p>\n

Reenactors have hosted Washington’s crossing ceremony each Christmas since 1953.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They are unable to cross because of high water in roughly three of every 10 years, said Lyons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/christmas-too-wintry-washington-revolutionary-war-reenactment-foiled-river-rapids-ice <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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