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Annis Stockton and the Papers of Morven

Annis Boudinot Stockton

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...

The Doctor Who Died Fighting

Hugh Mercer

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...

Mercer's Stand at Princeton

Hugh Mercer

Hugh Mercer had been a fugitive before. After the Battle of Culloden in 1746, he had fled across Scotland with a price on his head, eventually boarding a ship for the American colonies. He had rebuilt...

A Battlefield You Can Walk in Twenty Minutes

The Princeton Battlefield is small. You can walk the entire site in twenty minutes if you are not stopping to read markers. And that is the point — this was a small battle, maybe forty minutes of actu...

The Night March: Trenton to Princeton

The campfires burned on the south bank of Assunpink Creek, their glow visible to the British sentries across the water. General Cornwallis, settling into his headquarters in Trenton for the night, was...