...surpassed in the annals of time. It tells of an army crossing the Delaware amid snow and ice, and of the retreat of half-starved patriot soldiers with bare feet and bloody tracks; of the capture of Ticonderoga in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress; of the intrepid Putnam's great leap from the rocks; of the famous exploits of Marion's men; of the valor of Mad Anthony Wayne; of the sh...