What Washington Crossing the Delaware Gets Right About the Marbleheaders
Emanuel Leutze’s famous painting gets many details wrong, but it gets one thing right: the diverse crew of Glover’s Marblehead Regiment who rowed Washington across the Delaware in 1776.
Who Were the Marbleheaders? The True History of Glover’s Regiment
Meet the Marblehead mariners of John Glover’s 14th Continental Regiment, one of the Continental Army’s few integrated units, who rescued Washington’s army at Brooklyn and rowed it across the Delaware in 1776.