George Washington at BATTLE OF PRINCETON NEW JERSEY ~ 1870 Art Print Engraving

Description: BATTLE AT PRINCETONArtist: Trumbull ____________ Engraver: J. Rogers Note: the title in the table above is printed below the engraving THIS PRINT IS FROM THE 1870s & IS NOT A MODERN REPRODUCTION IN ANY WAY! Following his surprise victory at Trenton on December 26, 1776, General George Washington decided to use his momentum and grab another victory before entering winter quarters. On December 30, he crossed the Delaware River back into New Jersey. Washington had to keep his army together somehow since their enlistments ran out at midnight on December 31. At now abandoned Trenton, Washington offered a special bounty of ten dollars to all who would reenlist for another six weeks. He managed to convince a number of the troops to stay. General Washington started 1777 with 1,600 Continental troops with a number of New Jersey and Pennsylvania militia who had come in after Trenton. He knew the British had over 6,000 troops scattered throughout New Jersey with a large number of these at garrisons at Brunswick and Princeton. He now ordered his troops to concentrate at Trenton and sent a covering force toward Princeton to delay an anticipated enemy approach. By January 1, the covering force was in position along Five Mile Run and on January 2, the British appeared under the command of Lt. General Charles Cornwallis. Colonel Edward Hand delayed Cornwallis long enough that by the time the British reached moved through Trenton to where General Washington and his main force were located, darkness was falling. Washington then left his campfires burning and slipped behind the British force and marched toward Princeton. General Washington left 400 men in camp to keep up the appearance of an occupied camp. He moved the baggage and heavy artillery south to Burlington. At 1 A.M. on January 3, 1777, the rest of Washington's force set out. Secrecy and silence were maintained with only the generals knowing the expedition's destination and wheels wrapped in rags. In Princeton, General Cornwallis had left 1,400 British troops under the command of Lt. Colonel Charles Mawhood. General George Washington had a simple plan of attack for Princeton. First, a 350 man force under Brig. General Hugh Mercer was to destroy Stony Brook Bridge cutting Princeton off from reinforcement from Lt. General Charles Cornwallis' force at Trenton. Around 8 A.M., the British spotted Mercer's force. Lt. Colonel Charles Mawhood, left in comand at Princeton, fell back to a defensive position and the two forces met at Clark's Orchard. The Continental force charged and drove the British back. The two forces then formed battle lines and the 17th British Foot launched an attack that drove the Americans back, mortally wounding General Mercer. General Washington moved forward with Colonel John Cadwalader's Pennsylvania militia to prevent a complete rout. Washington, Cadwalader and Maj. General Nathanael Greene then moved among the troops to rally them. Once the main body of his force had moved up, General Washington led his men against the British line. At a distance of 30 yards he halted and ordered his men to fire and the British returned fire. The field was filled with smoke, obscuring Washington. When the smoke cleared, Washington was unharmed and the British line had broke. The 17th Foot fought toward Trenton while the rest of the British force retreated back toward Princeton. The rest of the action consisted after the British retreating through the town and then northward as the Americans moved behind them. General Cornwallis had heard the fighting begin and hurried to bring up reinforcements from Trenton, but the last Americans were slipping out of Princeton as the first of Cornwallis' troops were arriving. General Washington wanted to push on to Brunswick, but his troops were too tired. He instead marched to Morristown, arriving on January 5th and 6th and entered winter quarters. PRINT DATE: This lithograph was printed in 1870; it is not a modern reproduction in any way. PRINT SIZE: Overall print size is 5 inches by 7 inches including white borders, actual scene is 4 3/4 inches by 6 inches. PRINT CONDITION: Condition is excellent. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse. Paper is quality woven rag stock. SHIPPING: Buyer to pay shipping, domestic orders receives priority mail, international orders receive regular mail unless otherwise asked for. We take a variety of payment options, more payment details will be in our email after auction close. We pack properly to protect your item! Please note: the terms used in our auctions for engraving, etching, lithograph, plate, photogravure etc. are ALL prints on paper, and NOT blocks of steel or wood or any other material. "ENGRAVINGS", the term commonly used for these paper prints, were the most common method in the 1700s and 1800s for illustrating old books, and these paper prints or "engravings" were created by the intaglio process of etching the negative of the image into a block of steel, copper, wood etc, and then when inked and pressed onto paper, a print image was created. These prints or engravings were usually inserted into books, although many were also printed and issued as loose stand alone lithographs. They often had a tissue guard or onion skin frontis to protect them from transferring their ink to the opposite page and were usually on much thicker quality woven rag stock paper than the regular prints. So this auction is for an antique paper print(s), probably from an old book, of very high quality and usually on very thick rag stock paper.

Price: 24.99 USD

Location: New Providence, New Jersey

End Time: 2025-01-18T16:45:41.000Z

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