sanitized , suitably romantic scenes : paul revere flying through the night on a galloping horse , washington crossing the delaware while exhibiting ( as frank pointed out ) a lamentable lack of seamanship ... and a double-paged spread featuring molly pitcher , that gallant woman who had carried water to the heat-stricken troops ( left-hand page ) and then taken her wounded husband 's place to serve his cannon ( right-hand page ) -at the battle of monmouth .