I was just looking at "Washington Crossing the Delaware," the well-known painting by Emanuel Leutze. Maybe it's the influence of Dan Brown, but I had never noticed a woman in the boat. Who was this woman? No one knows. Some other sites reveal that only two other people in the boat are ID'd, though it's unsure if either was actually onboard.

This seminal American painting seems mostly German, as it was painted by Leutze in Germany 70 years after the event, using the Rhine as the model for the Delaware.

While most sites agree that this is a romanticized version of the event, most also knock it for its inaccuracies: the crossing took place in the dead of night in a snowstorm; the flag depicted was supposedly not developed until later.

Another interesting fact is that Leutze painted two versions of this painting, one of which was destroyed by a bombing raid on Bremen, Germany in 1942.