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Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ennsylvania. T?ie Battle of Assunpink was fought ashort time after that of Trenton. Wash-ington, finding the enemy did not ad-vance, again crossed the Delaware, andtook post on the south bank of Assun-pink creek. On the 2d of January, fouror five thousand British troops marchedfrom Princeton to attack him. The en-emy made three charges upon the bridge,but were repulsed by his cannon, withabout 150 killed. When night came on,Washington, knowing his force quite in-sufficient, ordered the camp-fires to bewell fed, and drew off his forces with solittle noise that the enemy did notknow of their disappearance. Washing-ton reached Princeton in the morning,which was occupied by a large Britishforce. Princeton.—This pleasant town isdistinguished as the seat of the principalliterary institution in the state, and oneof the oldest and most respectable in thecountry—the college of New Jersey. >w > ow o w H is O ■ ron o > en wg 5 ;> f8XI O K -0 a m 03 >< ►^ 2z c O n so g P
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