Eight Days After Trenton

Where momentum shifted

1777

Washington Rallies Troops at Princeton

1777

Battle of Princeton

1777

Mercer and Mawhood Clash at Clarke Farm

1776

Washington Crosses the Delaware

Princeton

NJ · American Revolution

Days after Trenton, Washington won again at Princeton.

The Rear Guard

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Events

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Stories

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Connections

January 3, 1777

Nassau Hall

Washington struck again before the British could regroup.

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**Princeton in the Revolution: Battlefield, Capital, and Crucible of a Nation**

PEOPLE

Benjamin Rush

Physician, Continental Congress Delegate, Signer of the Declaration

Charles Mawhood

British Lieutenant Colonel, Garrison Commander

George Washington

Commander-in-Chief, Continental General

Hugh Mercer

Continental Army General, Physician, Scottish Immigrant

KEY EVENTS

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Washington Rallies Troops at Princeton

Jan 1777

Battle of Princeton

Jan 1777

Mercer and Mawhood Clash at Clarke Farm

Jan 1777

Washington Crosses the Delaware

Dec 1776

Treaty of Paris Announced at Princeton

Oct 1783

Congress Thanks Washington at Princeton

Aug 1783

PLACES TO VISIT

Nassau Hall

Princeton Battlefield State Park

Morven Museum & Garden

Thomas Clarke House

STORIES

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HISTORICAL VOICE

Annis Stockton and the Papers of Morven

The British were coming, and Annis Boudinot Stockton had very little time. Her husband Richard had already fled Princeton — he would be captured within days and thrown into the Provost Jail in New Yor...

HISTORICAL VOICE

The Doctor Who Died Fighting

Hugh Mercer had seen battle before Princeton. He had fought at Culloden in 1746, on the losing side, a young Scottish surgeon following Bonnie Prince Charlie's doomed rebellion against the British Cro...

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