{"product_id":"putnams-leap-down-the-steps-at-a-gallop-heritage-holiday-ornament","title":"Putnam's Leap · Down the Steps at a Gallop · Heritage Holiday Ornament","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px 0;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/merlinclassics.store\/collections\/heritage-ornaments\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center;background:#F0EAD6;color:#0B0B0B;border:1px solid #000000;padding:12px 16px;font-weight:600;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eMore Heritage Ornaments\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePutnam's Leap.\u003c\/strong\u003e Horse and rider going straight down a flight of stone steps, sword up, with the pursuit stopped at the top. Everyone who hears the story asks the same first question: could a horse really do that?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLate in the winter of 1779, a column of British regulars caught Israel Putnam with only a handful of men near the shore of Long Island Sound. He was sixty-one, a veteran of the old frontier wars and of Bunker Hill, famous for doing the thing nobody else would. He rode for a hill with a stairway cut into its face, went down it on horseback, and the dragoons behind him pulled up. They fired, they missed, and he rode on to raise the militia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe leap has been argued over for two and a half centuries: how many steps, how steep, whether it happened quite that way at all. That argument is why it lasts. A story that can be doubted is a story that gets retold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur own drawing, set in crystal so the grayscale wash holds under the lights; the Continental coat is the one color. Three inches across, and still steeper than it looks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor descendants, historical societies, reenactors, riders, and everyone who likes an escape better than a battle. Profits go to hunger relief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaceted crystal, three inches across, with a white back so the line work reads clearly from anywhere in the room once the tree is lit. Red ribbon. Boxed in gold or white, your call at checkout. 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