• "The 10 Days That Changed the World:" The Battles of Trenton and Princeton (The Council of American Revolutionary Sites)
  A chronological narration of events by local institutions that are members of the Council.
• 1777: Princeton (Larry D. Smith)
• An Account of the Battle of Princeton, 1777
• An Account of the Centennial Celebrations at Princeton, N.J., June 27th, 1876, and January 3d, 1877 (William C. Ulyat; 1877)
• Address of the President of the United States at the Dedication of the Battle Monument. (Warren G. Harding; 1922))
• Alexander Hamilton Shooting the Cannonball that Destroys the Portrait of King George  (Mudd Manuscript Library Blog)
• An Army for the War: 1777 (Robert K. Wright, Jr.)
  Chapter 5 of Wright's The Continental Army (1983).
• The Battle of Princeton
  Excerpts from a contemporary journal published in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 32 (1908).
• The Battle of Princeton (The American Revolution)
• Battle of Princeton (John W. Barber & Henry Howe, Historical Collections of the State of New Jersey; 1846)
• The Battle of Princeton (Mary Scott Boyd)
  From the Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, vol. 5 (1894), the article includes George Washington's account of the battle.
• The Battle of Princeton (Sergeant R-----)
  An eyewitness acount first published in The Phenix, Wellsborough, PA on March 24, 1832; reprinted in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 20 (1896).
• The Battle of Princeton (Glenn Valis)
• Battle of Princeton, 1777 (Orange Key Virtual Tour)
  Includes photo of the impression left by a cannon ball on the exterior ofNassau Hall.
• The Battle of Princeton: A Preliminary Study (Alfred A. Woodhull; 1913)
• Battles of Princeton and Trenton (Map)
• The Battles of Trenton & Princeton (Rediscovering George Washington, PBS)
• The Battles of Trenton and Princeton (William S. Stryker; 1898)
• Biographical Sketch of General Hugh Mercer
  From the Southern Literary Messenger, vol. 4, no. 4 (April, 1838).  The 5-page article includes the battle, General Mercer's last days and his death.
• A Brief Narrative of the Ravages of the British and Hessians at Princeton in 1776-77....  (1906) [ Another copy ]
• The Camp-Fire at Skippack Creek (Henry C. Watson)
  A chapter from Watson's Camp-Fires of the Revolution (1857).
• The Christmas Campaign: The Ten Days of Trenton and Princeton (Kemble Widmer)
  From the series New Jersey's Revolutionary Experience, a 34-page book in PDF format (requires Acrobat Reader).
• Death of Major Anthony Morris, Jr. (Jonathan Potts; 1877)
• Diary of Captain Thomas Rodney, 1776-1777 (Thomas Rodney; 1888)
• A Fond Farewell to the Mercer Oak (Princeton Township)
• General Mercer House [Thomas Clarke House] (Historic American Buildings Survey)
• George Washington at the Battle of Princeton New Jersey, 1777
  Painting, from The Papers of George Washington, University of Virginia.
• The Life of General Hugh Mercer.... (John T. Goolrick; 1906)
• A New Historic Manual Concerning the Three Battles at Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey, During the War for American Independence, in 1776 and 1777 (C.C. Haven; 1871)
• The Pictorial Field-Book of The Revolution (Benson J. Lossing)
  Chapter 1 of Lossing's second volume includes maps of the battle and his 19th-century sketches of local sites -- Stony Brook Meeting House, the battlefield, Morven, Nassau Hall.  Even the Endnotes are full of historical information.
• Plan of Princeton, Dec. 31, 1776
  Reconnaissance map by General John Cadwalader. From American Memory at the Library of Congress.
• Plan of the Operations of General Washington Against the King's troops in New Jersey..., 1777
  From American Memory, the Library of Congress.  [ Copies from Rutgers: small file ; large file ]
• Princeton (Mark Tully)
  The British point of view from the site of the reenactors of His Royal Majesty's 55th Regiment of Foot.
• The Princeton Battle Monument: The History of the Monument, a Record of the Ceremonies Attending its Unveiling, and an Account of the Battle of Princeton (1922)
• Princeton, Battle of, 1777 (New York Public Library Picture Collection Online)
  Digital versions of 8 pictures: Battle of Princeton and Death of Mercer (Godey's Lady's Book); Mercer, Mortally Wounded at Princeton (Schmolze); Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777, No. 1 (Harper's Magazine; 2 views); Washington at the Battle of Princeton (Chappel); Battle at Princeton (Trumbull & Rogers); Battle of Princeton (Finden & Chappel); The Battle of Princeton (Ogden). Indexed slightly differently is Washington at Princeton (Smillie & Hinshelwood).
• Princeton Battlefield, New Jersey (National Park Service)
• Princeton Battlefield Society
• Rooted in History, and Leaving a Legacy (Rich Tucker)
  The Mercer Oak; from The Daily Princetonian, March 9, 2000.
• Ten Crucial Days
• Thirty Days in New Jersey Ninety Years Ago: An Essay Revealing New Factsin Connection with Washington and His Army in 1776 and 1777 (C. C. Haven; 1867)
• Thos Clarke House (Ten Crucial Days)
• Trenton and Princeton (Albert H. Heusser)
  From Heusser's In the Footsteps of Washington: Pope's Creek to Princeton (1921).
• Washington and His Army During Their March Through and Return to New Jersey in December, 1776 and January, 1777 (C. C. Haven; 1856)

Last revised: December 18, 2010