• "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 Army for the War: 1777 (Robert K. Wright, Jr.)
  Chapter 5 of Wright's The Continental Army (Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1983).
• The Battle of Princeton (The American Revolution)
• The Battle of Princeton (Glenn Valis)
• Battles of Princeton and Trenton (Map)
• The Battles of Trenton & Princeton (Rediscovering George Washington, PBS)
• 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.
• The Camp-Fire at Skippack Creek (Henry C. Watson)
  A chapter (in four sections) from Watson's Camp-Fires of the Revolution (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 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).
• Fabled Mercer Oak Falls
  Article by Jane Karlicek in The Princeton Packet, March 7, 2000.
• A Fond Farewell to the Mercer Oak (Princeton Township)
• George Washington at the Battle of Princeton New Jersey, 1777
  Painting, from The Papers of George Washington, University of Virginia.
• January 1777 (The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution)
• The Mercer Oak Falls; Rooted in History, and Leaving a Legacy (Rich Tucker, The Daily Princetonian)
• New Life for Old Mercer Oak (David M. Campbell)
  Article from The Princeton Packet, May 29, 2001.
• 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.
• Princeton (Mark Tully)
  The British point of view from the site of the reenactors of His Royal Majesty's 55th Regiment of Foot.
• 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)
• Surprise: The Night March to Princeton (Burlington County Cultural and Heritage Commission)
• Ten Crucial Days

Last revised: September 21, 2007