During an American History lecture in the Abram's Lecture Hall
the professor ask his students if any one could possibly give a one paragraph
over view of Roe vs. Wade.
Miss Thompson, a sophomore in the liberal arts program
responded after being called up with her version"
"Roe vs. Wade was the dilemma facing General Washington
as his troops came upon the Delaware River on their way to Trenton".
General George Washington crossing the Delaware River as painted by Emanuel Leutze some sixty years after the event.
It was Christmas Day, 1776 when Washington's troop made their way across the Delaware River from Pennsylvania to Trenton New Jersey. 2,400 men along with supplies and artillery made the crossing surprising the British troops, mostly Hessians. In killing Col. Johann Rall, their commander and capturing over 900 prisoners and their weapons, Washington secured a major win when moral was at a low.
As for history being wrong, it is actually the stirring image of the painting which has become famous as much as the crossing but the inacuracies out number the historic value of the work.
For, it is the Rhine River and not the Delaware.
