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A few nights ago, on January 2rd, George Washington, commander and chief of the continental army, and his revolutionary forces repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assumpink Creek in Trenton. Hugh Mercer, General of the Continental Army, clashed with two regiments under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Mawhood of the British Army. Mercer and his troops were overrun and Washington sent some militia under General John Cadwalader to help him. Seeing the flight of Mercers men, the Militia also began to flee. Washington rode up with reinforcements and gathered the fleeing Militia. He then led the attack on Mawhood’s troops, driving them back. Mawhood then gave the order to retreat. Then, most of the troops tried to flee to Cornwallis in Trenton.
 * __General George Washington’s revolutionary forces defeat British forces!__**

(Above:The battlefield of Princeton) In Princeton itself, General John Sullivan forced some British troops who had taken refuge in Nassau Hall to surrender. That ended the battle. After the battle, Washington moved his army to Morristown. With their third defeat in 10 days, the British evacuated southern New Jersey. The battle was the last major action of Washington's winter New Jersey campaign. This battle took place in Princeton, New Jersey in the USA and was the Americans verse the British. The Americans general was General George Washington and the British general was Major General Lord Cornwallis. There were 7,000 Americans versing 8,000 British and Hessians although only 1,200 British troops were principally engaged. The Americans dressed as best they could. Increasingly as the war progressed regular infantry regiments of the Continental Army wore blue uniform coats but the militia continued in rough clothing. Both sides were armed with muskets and guns. The Pennsylvania regiments carried long, small calibre, rifled weapons. The British wore red coats and headgear of bearskin caps, leather caps or tricorne hats depending on whether the troops were grenadiers, light infantry or battalion company men. The two regiments of light dragoons serving in America, the 16th and 17th, wore red coats and leather crested helmets. The German infantry wore blue coats and retained the Prussian style grenadier mitre with brass front plate.