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 know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman’s cares.”
    —George Washington (1732–1799)

    “Twenty men crossing a bridge,
    Into a village,
    Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
    Into twenty villages,
    Or one man
    Crossing a single bridge into a village.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)