{"id":1587,"date":"2026-12-25T00:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-12-25T05:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:10:24","slug":"general-washington-and-his-army-secretly-crossed-the-delaware-river-in-1776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1587","title":{"rendered":"General Washington and his Army Secretly Crossed the Delaware River in 1776"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>General Washington and his army secretly crossed the Delaware River in 1776<\/strong> and surprised the British troops in Trenton. The American victory was a milestone in the Revolutionary War. A number of children\u2019s books have been written about the event. Lynne Cheyney\u2019s <em>When Washington Crossed the Delaware: A Wintertime Story for Young Patriots<\/em> is an excellent book. They can visit the Washington Crossing State Park site at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtoncrossingpark.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Crossing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Washington and his army secretly crossed the Delaware River in 1776 and surprised the British troops in Trenton. The American victory was a milestone in the Revolutionary War. A number of children\u2019s books have been written about the event. Lynne Cheyney\u2019s When Washington Crossed the Delaware: A Wintertime Story for Young Patriots is an <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1587' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4576,4675,1252,78,60,1429,4562,4676],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4576","tag-december-25","tag-delaware-river","tag-new-jersey","tag-pennsylvania","tag-revolutionary-war","tag-trenton","tag-washingtons-crossing","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20554,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/20554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}