One company was equipped and commanded by the American artist Charles Willson Peale. Watching from the Pennsylvania shore, he was shocked by what he saw of Washington’s army struggling to cross the Delaware. Peale wrote that it was “the most hellish scene I ever beheld. All the shores were lighted up with large fires, boats continually passing and repassing, full of men, horses, artillery and camp equipage. . . . The Hollowing of hundreds of men in their difficulties of getting Horses and artillery out of the boats, made it rather the appearance of Hell than any earthly scene.”
