New Jersey Girl, 14, Braves Chilly Delaware River to Save Drowning Boy
A 14-year-old girl dove into the frigid Delaware River in suburban Philadelphia and saved a nine-year-old boy from drowning this holiday weekend, police say.
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Exclusive–O’Donnell: Victory or Death: America’s First Christmas
On Christmas Eve, General George Washington sat in his tent on the banks of the Delaware River and methodically wrote the same three words over and over on several small pieces of paper. He had decided on a daring plan: crossing the ice-choked Delaware River and mounting a surprise attack on the Hessian garrison at Trenton.
WATCH: New Jersey Officers Save Woman Trapped in Overturned Vehicle in Delaware River
Nerve-wracking body-camera footage captured the moment police in New Jersey rescued a woman from an overturned vehicle in the Delaware River last month.
‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’ Painting Expected to Command $20M at Auction
One of two surviving editions of the iconic “Washington Crossing the Delaware” painting is expected to command up to $20 million when it goes up for auction at Christie’s in May, according to reports.
Exclusive–O’Donnell: America’s First Christmas that Changed the Course of History
“Our republic cannot exist long in prosperity,” Doctor Benjamin Rush later wrote in a letter to John Adams. “We require adversity and appear to possess most of the republican spirit when most depressed.”
Exclusive–O’Donnell: The Name Is Bond—Doctor Nathaniel Bond, The Unknown Fighting Surgeon and Savior of the Revolution
Doctor Bond had a problem. During the Battle of Lexington and Concord in obedience to his Hippocratic Oath, he had treated British soldiers. For performing his duty as a doctor, he was falsely accused of being a Loyalist and had his life threatened by an angry mob.
Patrick K. O’Donnell: Times that Try Men’s Souls
“These are the times that try men’s souls,” Paine wrote. “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
O’Donnell: Victory or Death–A Desperate Plan that Changed the Course of the Revolution
You think America has problems in 2018? Try living as a Patriot during the winter of 1776. Washington’s army had lost one battle after another. The economy had tanked. And the paper money the United States printed seemed worthless. Americans were abandoning the cause in droves.
