The Battle of Iron Works Hill
December 23, 1776
A decisive skirmish in the
Revolutionary War.
Colonel Samuel Griffin’s troops were entrenched at this site. They decoyed Colonel (Count) Kurt von Donop’s Hessian soldiers away from Bordentown thus reducing the enemy forces defending Trenton and assuring victory by General George Washington’s troops after the historic crossing of the Delaware River on Christmas Night, 1776.
Marker is on Pine Street, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
