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Title: Make sure to consult an encyclopedia as you read this book
Review: One question:What good results from reading an "interesting" history book that confuses facts and opinions?One opinion:If you like historical opinion, buy a book by an author who writes historical fiction or acknowledges he is biased.One solution:The encyclopedia will help you separate established facts from Davis's opinions.Here are a few corrections for those who read this book.1. Washington did not nudge Henry Knox with the tip of his boot as he stepped into his boat to cross the Delaware. Knox did not travel in the same boat as George Washington. Knox was in charge of transporting the horses and artillery on the big ferry boats.2. Most of the men crossed the Delaware standing up. Big river ferries and freight boats (Durham boats) had few seats or none at all. If a man sat on the bottom of one of those boats in the winter he would have been sitting in ice water.I got these facts from "Washington's Crossing," by David Hackett Fischer.
