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 h
The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777 John Trumbull
General George Washington at Trenton on the night of January 2, 1777 by John Trumbull (1792)
The Battle of Princeton by James Peale (1782), depicts Washington and his headquarters flag.
Site of Joseph Moulder's battery. Mawhood's British troops attacked uphill toward this position.
Hugh Mercer 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
Battle of Princeton
…night, he evacuated his position, circled General Cornwallis' army, and attacked the British garrison at Princeton. On January 3, Brigadier General Hugh Mercer of the Continental Army clashed with two regiments under the command of Mawhood. Mercer and his troops were overrun, and Mercer was mortally wounded…
The Kentucky land grant to heirs of Mercer for military service of George Weedon during the French and Indian War signed by then Virginia governor Thomas Jefferson in 1780
Hugh Mercer Apothecary in Fredericksburg, Virginia
Mercer Memorial at the Thomas Clarke House in Princeton, New Jersey, where Mercer was treated after being bayonetted by British troops at the Battle of Princeton