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Delaware River

John Glover and the men of Marblehead saved the Continental Army several times, and then helped it cross the Delaware to victory at Trenton and Princeton.

Editor’s Note: The author of 13 books, Patrick K. O’Donnell is one of our leading military historians.

In the teeth of near defeat, Gen. George Washington pulled out miraculous mid-winter victories

In the summer the stretch of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey, is as alluring as any place in the country.

Three times John Glover’s Marblehead fishermen saved Washington’s army; in a final battle, the “amphibious regiment” rowed him to victory across the Delaware

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