Historical Land Adventure with Friends of Washington Crossing Park

The Traversing the Ten Crucial Days Bus Tour begins and ends at Washington Crossing, PA while spending the day retracing the 25 December 1776 crossing of the Delaware through to 3 January, 1777. You will learn about the military engagements between remaining rag-tag elements of George Washington’s army against Hessian and British troops at Trenton, Princeton, and areas in-between. Historical Interpreters will tell the remarkable stories of these ten days that breathed crucial new life into the apparently expiring American Revolution. The events are discussed in the context of the local, strategically important, central New Jersey towns, villages, and farms; occupied by families with diverse backgrounds; practicing varied religions such as Quakers, Presbyterians, and Anglicans; and holding complex views on loyalty to the Revolution or the King. Hear how the terrain, weaponry, and weather, influenced the ways the battles were fought and how the lives of the local people were disrupted by them. See where armies marched, fought, and struggled to survive on an otherwise peaceful landscape, while the course of human history hung in the balance.

Historical interpreters: Tours are led by Larry Kidder, author of CROSSROADS OF THE REVOLUTION: Trenton 1774 – 1783 and A PEOPLE HARASSED AND EXHAUSTED: The First Hunterdon County Militia and TEN CRUCIAL DAYS: Washington's Vision for Victory Unfolds, and Roger S. Williams; Co-Founder of TenCrucialDays.org, a member of the Society of Military History and Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Kidder and Williams are joined at each venue by the interpretive staff.

Cost: $150 per person includes bus fare, lunch, and donations to selected tour sites. Limit: 36 Guests. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to officially recognized friends’ groups of the four venues of the Ten Crucial Days Campaign: Washington Crossing Historic Park in Pennsylvania, Washington Crossing Park Association in New Jersey, The Old Barracks Museum in Trenton and the Princeton Battlefield Society in Princeton.

Groups interested in a private bus tour should call the Washington Crossing Historic Park Visitor Center at 215-493-4076 or email Danielle at dgress@washingtoncrossingpark.org.