This Week on Dispatches: Colin Zimmerman on the Prelude to Trenton
byOn this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews JAR contributor Colin Zimmerman on the strategic contest for Burlington, New Jersey, in the run up to…
Carl von Donop
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Prelude to Trenton: The Strategic Contest for Burlington County
byCount Carl Emil von Donop was at the pinnacle of his military career as his corps of Hessians marched victoriously south into New Jersey…
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Burlington 1776: The Forgotten Opportunity
byThe 1776 campaign season had ended badly for General George Washington and the Continental Army as the dejected Patriots struggled through foul weather over…
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Johann Gottlieb Rall: Tactical Negligence or Personal Negligence at Trenton?
by“When a man chooses a calling, he must do everything that can be done in that calling so that he can never suffer reproach…
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Clement Biddle Partially Clears the “Battle of the Clouds”
byOne of the more intriguing limited actions of the Revolutionary War was the Battle of the Clouds on September 16, 1777, a meeting of…
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A Visit to Fort Mifflin on the Delaware
byThe walls grew weak; and fast and hot Against them pour’d the ceaseless shot With unabating fury sent, From battery to battlement; And thunder-like…
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The Engagement at Woodlane: Precursor to the Battle of Iron Works Hill, a Key to the American Victory at Trenton
byTheir feet were leaving noticeable imprints in the grassy field. It was another two hundred yards to the hedgerow, and then a steep climb…
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The Whitall Family and the Battle of Red Bank
byJames W. Whitall (1717-1808) was a prominent Quaker businessman and farmer in the southern region of New Jersey. In 1739 he married Ann Cooper…
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A Visit to Old Fort Mercer on the Delaware
byA motorist travelling northbound through New Jersey along Interstate 295, which tracks the east bank of the Delaware River from the Delaware Memorial Bridge,…