Dogs, Marines and How Princeton Altered Revolutionary War

1.    Washington escaped from one enemy to attack another at Princeton

Painting by Don Troiani of Washington at the Battle of Princeton (Source: Don Troiani, WBritain.com)
Despite their success in repulsing several frontal attacks at the Battle of Assunpink Creek (Battle of Second Trenton) on January 2, 1777, Gen. George Washington and his senior officers were filled with a sense of dread.  Gen. Charles Cornwallis' army of 8,000 veteran soldiers were poised to deliver a punishing blow the following morning. The fact that the British had discovered a ford that led to the vulnerable American right flank made the American position on the Assunpink Creek near Trenton all the more dangerous.