The Battle of Princeton
Friday, January 3, 1777
8:55 AM
Clear – Windy - 28 Degrees
Our American Revolution
10 Crucial Days - December 25, 1776 - January 3, 1777
August, 1776
• Continental Army - 23,000
• British Army - 25,000
December, 1776
• Washington’s Army 3,800
• Enlistments Expiring 01/01/77
• Thomas Paine wrote:
“These are the times that try men’s souls!”
Institute for Advanced Study – IAS
Owns Maxwell’s Field
Princeton Battlefield
• Non Profit Org. – 1930
• 36 Nobel Laureates
(Albert Einstein, Robert
Oppenheimer)
• Obtained all Necessary
Permits & Gov Approval
to build Faculty Housing
• Bulldozers Grading
A Battle to Save a Battlefield
by George F. Will
April 8, 2016, Washington Post
“One of history’s more important battles happened here on a field you can walk across is less than
the half the 45 minutes or so the battle lasted. If George Washington’s audacity on Jan. 3, 1777,
had not reversed the patriots’ retreat and routed the advancing British, the American Revolution
might have been extinguished…The battle to save this battlefield, one of the nation’s most
significant and most neglected sites is not yet lost. The government in today’s Trenton, and in the
city named for the man who won the 1777 battle, should assist the Civil War Trust.”
The Battle to Save Princeton
Save Princeton Organizations
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Civil War Trust* - Campaign 1776
Princeton Battlefield Society
National Trust for Historic Preservation
American Revolution Institute of the Society
of the Cincinnati
Cultural Landscape Foundation
National Coalition for History
National Parks Conservation Association
Sierra Club - New Jersey Chapter
Battlefield Trust of Great Britain
Royal Tigers Association, Royal Leicestershire
Reg. (17th Reg. of Foot under Mawhood at
The Battle of Princeton)
Washington at Princeton
Friday, January 3, 1777
* Highest Rating ****by Charity Navigator
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The Battle to Save Princeton
• 13 Year Fight
• Institute for Advanced Study has entered into an
Agreement to sell 14.85 acres of Maxwell’s Field
for $4,000,000
• Construction Halted
• Purchaser is the Civil War Trust 1/, property will
be conveyed to State of New Jersey for addition
to the Princeton Battlefield State Park
1/ Highest Rating **** by Charity Navigator
The Battle to Save Princeton
14.85 Acres – Maxwell’s Field
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Help Save Princeton!
Join the Battle! – 12/31/17 Closing Deadline!
$4,000,000 -14.85 Acres of Princeton Battlefield
$1,600,000 Raised - $2,400,000 to Go!
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San Diego Chapter SAR Board of Directors
Resolution:
1. Donate!
2. SDSAR Join the Save Princeton Coalition!
3. Request CA SAR Join Save Princeton Coalition
4. Request National SAR Join Save Princeton
Coalition!
5. Request National DAR to Join Save Princeton
Coalition!
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