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Plan of the operations
of General Washington against the Kings
troops in New Jersey,
1777.
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On January 3, 1777, at the end of a series of skirmishes (including
the battle of Trenton, on the eve of which Washington made his famous
crossing of the Delaware) known as the ten Crucial Days, one of
the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution was fought at Princeton.
This battle provided General Washington’s first victory over
the British in the field, as American forces prevailed against stronger
British forces. At the height of the battle, Alexander Hamilton
was responsible for the shelling of Nassau Hall, on the campus of
the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), to which some
British soldiers had retreated. The killed and wounded numbered
nearly 90 from the British side and more than 40 from the American.
After this decisive battle, the French government began to provide
aid to the Americans, and King George III and the British parliament
began to be less supportive of the war cause.
To read more about the battles of Princeton and
Trenton, see
William M. Dwyer
The Day is Ours!: November 1776-January 1777: An Inside View
of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton, 1983. catalog
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