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The Battle of the Assunpink Creek, also known as the Second Battle of Trenton, was a battle between American and British troops that took place in and around Trenton, New Jersey, on January 2, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, and resulted in an American victory.
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 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 ...
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)
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 ...
On January 2, 1777, Cornwallis had hoped to engage Washington's army at Trenton after George Washington recrossed the Delaware River, resulting in the Battle of the Assunpink Creek, also known as the Second Battle of Trenton. Cornwallis's initial results were failures.
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.
The name Mill Hill refers to central New Jersey's first industrial site, a mill, erected in 1679, at the southeast corner of the present Broad Street crossing of the Assunpink Creek. [3] Mill Hill and its wooden mill were among the holdings of the first settler in the vicinity of Trenton, Mahlon Stacy, a Quaker who arrived in North America in 1678.