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The bridge over the Assunpink Creek as shown in the View of the Triumphal Arch, engraving attributed to James Trenchard, 1789. The battle was commemorated on April 21, 1789, with a triumphal arch erected on the bridge over the Assunpink Creek during George Washington's reception at Trenton on his way to his first inauguration. [29]
Battle of Trenton – also known as the First Battle of Trenton; Battle of the Assunpink Creek – also known as the Second Battle of Trenton, fought one week later; Battle of Princeton – battle on the following day; Washington at Verplanck's Point – an earlier full-length portrait of Washington by Trumbull (1790)
The Trenton Battle Monument is a massive column-type structure in the Battle Monument section of Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It commemorates the December 26, 1776, Battle of Trenton , a pivotal victory for the Continental forces and commander George Washington during the American Revolutionary War .
The Assunpink Creek is born in rural Monmouth County, about a mile north of Clarksburg. Flowing westwards, it soon enters the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area, where it has been dammed to form Rising Sun Lake. After an unnamed tributary enters from the south, it enters another reservoir, Assunpink Lake. The two lakes, as well as Stone Tavern ...
Will NJ's Revolutionary War sites be ready for the nation's 250th anniversary? In the fall of 2022, Gov. Phil Murphy announced the state would spend $25 million in American Rescue Plan funds to ...
Washington next advanced to the bridge over the Assunpink Creek where a large triumphal arch had been erected. [3] On the arch were two dates referring to his victories at Trenton: the Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776 and the Battle of the Assunpink Creek on January 2, 1777. [6]
The park includes the site of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River at Johnson's Ferry.This is where George Washington and a 2,400-man detachment of the Continental Army crossed the river overnight on December 25, 1776, and into the morning of December 26, 1776, to make a surprise attack on Trenton, a move that would prove to be a turning point in the American Revolutionary War.
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