Why does Durham matter if military is the only way? Can he recommend military trials?
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Don’t really know what he has the power to do Edit Thx for the sticky. Have been wondering about corrupt judges etc
This movie about Washington crossing the Delaware is pretty good... good period costumes, good writing... lots of good detail.
I always thought Durham boats were a type of boat... Washington requisitioned them from a foundry owned by a guy named Durham on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River to retreat over to Pennsylvania, kept them and then used them again to cross back on the night of 25 / 26 December. Learned something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jgEMrK1lcM
Excellent movie, often forgotten because it was made for TV production. Jeff Daniels has always been on my radar as a possible double agent, mostly due to this performance as Washington and of Chamberlain in Gettysburg.
More on Durham boat history https://durhamhistoricalsociety.org/durham-history/the-durham-boat/ http://pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/DurhamBoat.html
Perhaps the most important aspect of the victory at Trenton was the morale boost the Continental Army desperately needed... terms of enlistment were about to expire. the Continental Congress had no money. Hope was dwindling. Washington needed a victory, any kind of victory, to keep his troops in the fight. Sounds similar to today eh?
Remembered...
In season 3 of the HBO series Newsroom starring Jeff Daniels, his character, Will McAvoy, is held in contempt of court for refusing to reveal the identity of a confidential source. When McAvoy is in the courtroom being questioned by the judge behind McAvoy on the wall is a copy of the Emanuel Leutze painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware.
The scene appears to be shot in an actual court room, not a set, so whether the painting was already there or was placed on the wall for the shot by the set coordinator is probably not discoverable by mere mortals.
Just a random factoid.
Do you remember seeing that scene or was that something you just looked up? Interesting coincidence....