George Washington at the Battle of Princeton
3 January 1777
by
Don Troiani
In one of the pivotal moments of the Revolution, on January 3, 1777 when the cause of the patriots hung by a thread at the town of Princeton, New Jersey, General George Washington proved once more to be the savior of the cause. Despite the remarkable victory at Trenton days before , the American army was engaged in a desperate game of cat and mouse with superior British forces in hot pursuit.
Encountering a British brigade led by Colonel Mawhood outside of Princeton, the patriot vanguard was forced back by a charge lead by the 17th Regiment of Foot. At the height of the fighting Washington with his staff galloped onto the field and rallied the retreating troops of Mercer's and Cadwalader's Brigades. An American officer wrote "I shall never forget what I felt at Princeton on his account, when I saw him brave all the dangers of the field and the importance of his life hanging as it were by a single hair with a thousand deaths flying about him..." The British advance was crushed , Mawhood's forces routed, and the bedraggled patriot army lived to fight another day.
Accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity/ historical fact sheet written by the renowned Revolutionary war historian James L. Kochan.

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