Results for Petticoat Bridge Skirmish
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Petticoat Bridge Skirmish
December 23, 1776
On orders from General Washington to pull Hessian troops southward from positions of support near Trenton, 600 Americans, stationed at Mount Holly under Colonel Samuel Griffin, attacked a Hessian outpost here on December 21. When the 3,000 Hessians ...
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