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:

    “The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life—this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.”
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)

    “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)