>So no digs then huh?
Stop coming here poaching for digz and lookn for jabs. Habbs habben when they habben. Christmas Eve ain’t the time. An that’s why yer ere. Yeah breads gonna go fast in QR eben on a slow night. Moar mouths to feed. It’s all shitposting on Christmas Eve.
Just gonna say this. I don’t think anons from this thread are going on QR and talking shit about anons’ digging. What they have to say about QR was about the BV and how unjust things are there. And they have a completely valid complaint. We all know REAL anons who have been here from the start who have been banned. Frens and Bakers here from the start who we know personally have dug beside us and who we know have volunteered countless hours for QR. Noone ever criticized another anon about their digging. other than love spats. This is not about digging as being free to dig without a blue check mark next to ‘Anon’. Those that are coming to this thread criticizing other anons are wrong. Just leave and let leave. Go in peace and please let others do the same. See you in a while. Come to visit.
Did some research on that picture. The art historians(insert faggits who never set foot in PA or NJ or outside a museum for that matter) have criticized the painting for being ‘historically inaccurate” because they say the painter depicts The Crossing as occurring during the day. What these dumbfucks don’t realize is that the German painter spent 14 fricking years living in Philadelphia and travelled the area during his youth. (A lot more time than any art historian.) He, not being a sissy boi art historian, actually rode a horse, was able to look up in the sky, knew North from South, knew what a night sky looked like as well as what a full moon looked like behind some clouds. McConkle’s Ferry (the spelling varies) was no doubt famous back then when the painter lived there in Philadelphia.
My point is this: The position of that light behind the clouds is where you would expect to find the full moon on Christmas night.
This compass is more accurate for which direction the scene faces in the painting. Yes, 120 degrees is the direction from which the sun rises, but that would be at the horizon and not high up in the sky. The green arrows represent one hour of the Moon’s movement, which is roughly 4 minutes per degree of movement.
Just to add, we know Washington sent his last dispatch before the attack at 6:00pm from McConkie’s Ferry. (Spelled differently by Washington). It is speculated that the crossing had delays and that Washington was not the first to cross. Thinking tactically, you might want to secure the opposite bank first and also dispatch scouts on the opposite bank before sending your general across. So, it is possible Washington did not cross for a few hours after the first boat, but yet still in advance of most. It’s presumed that Washington did not cross with him. But author David Hackett Fischer recounts a story where, sometime after Stephen’s brigade crossed, Washington crossed with Capt. William Blacker and then sat on the riverbank and watched in despair as his troops struggled to navigate the river and fall further behind schedule.
The entire operation ran about three hours behind, according to Seabright, with the last of the troops, artillery, equipment and horses finally arriving on the New Jersey side of the river around 3 AM.
“The bottom line: Washington crossed after 6 PM. That much is certain,” Seabright says. “And there’s some evidence that he crossed after 7 PM. But we’re not certain how long after.”