The New York and New Jersey campaign in 1776 and the winter months of 1777 was a series of American Revolutionary War battles for control of the Port of New York and the state of New Jersey, fought be
George Washington, a 1776 portrait by Charles Willson Peale
The Battle of Long Island, 1776, an 1858 portrait by Alonzo Chappel, featuring Lord Stirling in the background leading an attack against the British to enable the retreat of other troops in the foreground across a mill pond to Brooklyn Heights.
A hand-drawn period sketch depicting the locations of British outposts in New Jersey. Orientation is with north to the right.
Emanuel Leutze's 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware is an iconic image of American history.
Battle of Trenton
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The Battle of Trenton was a short but pivotal American Revolutionary War battle on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey. After General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware
New York and New Jersey campaign
…establishing a chain of outposts from New York City to Burlington, New Jersey. Washington, in a tremendous boost to American morale, launched a successful strike against the Trenton garrison on the morning of December 26, 1776, prompting Howe to withdraw his chain of outposts back to New Brunswick and the coast near New York. Washington…
Battle of Trenton, a 1975 portrait of the battle by H. Charles McBarron Jr.
The Hessian Sketch of the Battle of Trenton
The Passage of the Delaware, an 1819 painting by Thomas Sully now housed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
Cannon at Washington's Crossing Historic Park