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The Battle of Princeton was a battle of the American Revolutionary War, fought near Princeton, New Jersey on January 3, 1777, and ending in a small victory for the Colonials. General Lord Cornwallis had left 1,400 British troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Mawhood in Princeton.
December 14, 1776: New Jersey: American victory Battle of Iron Works Hill: December 22–23, 1776: New Jersey: British victory Battle of Trenton: December 26, 1776: New Jersey: American victory: Americans capture Hessian detachment at Trenton Second Battle of Trenton: January 2, 1777: New Jersey: American victory Battle of Princeton: January 3 ...
The Battle of Princeton was a decisive victory for Continental troops, which took the British force by surprise. [20] This was just the pick-up colonists needed; The Pennsylvania Journal wrote that if Washington had lived in the days of idolatry, he would have been worshiped as a god.
The historic site of the Battle of Princeton, a major turning point in the Revolutionary War and, thus, our country's independence, has another form of combat brewing -- this time in real estate.
Hugh Mercer (January 16, 1726 – January 12, 1777) was a Scottish brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.He fought in the New York and New Jersey campaign and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton.
Princeton Battlefield State Park is a 681-acre (2.8 km 2) state park located in Princeton. The park preserves part of the site of the Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777), which was a victory for General George Washington's revolutionary forces over British forces.
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, which occurred on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a complex and surprise military maneuver organized by George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, which culminated in their attack on Hessian forces garrisoned at Trenton.
On the night of December 25–26, 1776, Washington crossed the Delaware and surprised the Trenton outpost the following morning, December 26. Over the next two weeks, he went on to win two further battles at Assunpink Creek and Battle of Princeton, leading the British to retreat to northern New Jersey. [6]