SPIRIT OF JUSTICE WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE
ERECTED TO COMMEMORATE THAT NOBEL SPIRIT OF JUSTICE DISPLAYED BY GEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON AFTER HIS CAPTURE OF TRENTON IN DECEMBER 1776, IN RETURNING TO BOT WHIG AND TORY ALIKE THEIR PERSONAL EFFECTS, OF WHICH THEY HAD BEEN RUTHLESSLY PLUNDERED BY THE BRITISH AND HESSIAN TROOPS AFTER THEIR CAPTURE OF FORT WASHINGTON AND DURING THEIR INVASION OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
Listing Details
- Public
- REVOLUTIONARY WAR
- Plaques On Stone
- 1916
- BARRACK STREET AND LAFAYETTE STREET
- 08608
- GARY NIGH
- COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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