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1508 German Auxiliary Officers and Their Critiques of The American Revolution
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:45:27
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Synopsis
We have all seen it - on coins, stamps, postcards, t-shirts, billboards, and classroom walls. In 1851 Emanuel Gottlieb Luetze painted "Washington Crossing the Delaware", an iconic image of the General's attack on Trenton during a bitter December night in 1776. Lost in all of the painting's fame, however, is the irony that the German-born artist was glamorizing the defeat of German auxiliary forces as the turning point in the American Revolution. Dur: 46mins File: .mp3