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 Washington at Princeton
• Civil War Trust* - Campaign 1776 Friday, January 3, 1777 • 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)
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6 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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n 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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