Don't Know Much About History

HESS-IAN was a nice "bonus"!

Brain not working at full tilt here -- do the date errors do something?

Loved this! Very clever

Just as blown away by this one as I was the first time. Great stuff!

Very cool! A kind soul on Discord advised me to look back at an earlier puzzle, which nudged me to it. Thanks, Cap’n!

Got it! Thanks, Cap'n!

Fun one, Cap'n. Of course, I entered Revolutionary War and then American Revolution before typing in the specific long-answer event. ;)

Nice one, Rick! Needed the nudges, but once you see it, it is so obvious that I can't believe I missed it. Thanks for the Sunday fun!

Okay. Show of hands. How many people saw the wrong dates and figured they had to figure the how big the mistake was (off by 51, 67, 16 and 34 years) and it NEVER occurred to them to just take the correct years in the first place?

What? Just me?

LOL this was fantastic. I stared at 23 down for the longest time before I got it... I hadn't noticed the year mentioned in 1A, and was trying to think of another country that might have had a civil war going on in 1895. Then I saw 31D and things started clicking. And yes I had to google to confirm some of the dates. (But I did remember the date "the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor", to quote Bluto). Fun one, and educational too. Thanks Capn!

Very nice. Let's just say my husband knows his history better than I do. Thanks, Cap'n!

Fun puzzle… I did go down one quick rabbit hole. Instead of just using the correct dates, I took the difference (so for Pearl Harbor, 8 - 7 = 1) and that obviously didn’t work. I did need the correct numbers to see the hidden message in the grid, though, which I probably should not have had to in retrospect.

Fun! I saw the answer before the connection to the erroneous dates. Of course, I'm so bad at history that I didn't even notice the dates at first!

"Gentle ripple" -- haha -- Not sure if that's what the conditions were like! I did the math too -- hey, no vowels!? Then I considered the actual dates and looked at the beginning letters of the words. Still rather strange. Well, W starts WASHING -- I could add TON to get another prez. And I think there's a TON in the grid. And D starts DELA -- I could add NO to that to get DELANO! But I doubt there's a NO in the grid... Oh wait, never mind. And that's how it went down for me in this very fun and clever puzzle! Thanks, Rick!

Enjoyed it...thanks Cap'n Rick!

i'm calling it - puzzle of the years

thanks for the puzzle... i don't know much about solving, but i learned today it helps to actually read the clues... and the grid... i have much more to learn...

Hidden in plain sight makes for a great puzzle. When I finally got it, I wondered how I could not have seen WASHING TON crossing DELA WARE, especially since at Thanksgiving someone mentioned Washington Crossing, PA, which is 10 miles from where we were.

LIke Hector, I figured there must be some significance to the incorrect numbers. I tried subtracting the correct ones from the wrong ones (78 - 27 for Lindy, enc.) and got nowhere. Were they just arbitrary?

Awesome Cap’n! Live approx five minutes from Washington’s Crossing in PA and I’ll always refer to your meta when we pass through now.

Another Great Meta/Puzzle, all tied up in a nice bow....amazing. Thanks Capn.

Funny because I got the GWDRT and thought George Washington Delaware River Throw, but of course he apocryphally threw it across the Potomac. Then I saw the GWT were in GEN WASHINGTON and DR in DELAWARE RIVER. Very nice and, except for not finding the right combo to suit Crosshare for many tries, relatively low anxiety. Nice fill as always.

Oh man. Totally missed the graphical component to this for a while. I was convinced initially that WWT... was going to lead me to WW TWO, and then, it just went nowhere. I need to do the graphic check more often, that's a cool metanism. Thanks!

Very fun! I didn't clue in on the years at all, but I did catch DELA and WARE, and HESS and IANS, so I tried revolutionary war. Then I figured I must be missing SOMETHING and saw GEN WASHING TON and it clicked!

Briefly played with the HINT being the word TON (intersects it) — so that you add TON (which is “much” as in I know a TON about history?) to other words to make cities … LincolnTON, HessTon, WashingTON, is there a WareTON?? … ohhhhh duh. Washington is crossing at DELA - WARE. I never even picked up on the wrong dates, BTW. Never used any nudges, and swear I did not see any spoilers or answers posted (I know I did this one way late… how did I miss it last weekend??)

Wow, this puzzle was impressive!

so good!!! i knew that pearl harbor day was dec 7, so 7 was the first place i looked, then off to google for everything else... didn't notice the bonus HESSIAN until reading the comments... the quality of your puzzles are so top-notch even with so much theme content crammed in there! favorite entry is INEEDANAP... it's how i feel all the time