TIL that the man holding the American flag standing behind George Washington in the painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware" is 18 year old future president James Monroe
https://emergingrevolutionarywar.org/2016/01/12/james-monroe-at-the-battle-of-trenton/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gqxb9b/til_that_the_man_holding_the_american_flag/
https://emergingrevolutionarywar.org/2016/01/12/james-monroe-at-the-battle-of-trenton/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gqxb9b/til_that_the_man_holding_the_american_flag/
James Monroe at the Battle of Trenton
One of the iconic images of the Revolutionary War is Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze’s 1851 painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware. It is the night of December 25, 1776. The Continental Army is…Emerging Revolutionary War Era