Across which river did George Washington lead his famous Christmas 1776 crossing?

George Washington led his famous Christmas 1776 crossing across the Delaware River.

Washington and approximately 2,400 Continental Army soldiers crossed the river from Pennsylvania into New Jersey during the night of December 25–26, 1776. The operation was dangerous because of darkness, strong currents, ice, and difficult weather.

The army attacked Hessian troops at Trenton, New Jersey, on the morning of December 26. The Continental victory captured about 900 prisoners and restored morale after a series of defeats and retreats. Washington followed the success with another victory at Princeton in January 1777.

The crossing is often represented by Emanuel Leutze’s 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. The painting is a later artistic interpretation, not a photograph or exact eyewitness record, and it includes compositional details that historians do not regard as literal documentation.