Produced by Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) WORKS BY SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE OLD LANDMARKS AND HISTORIC PERSONAGES OF BOSTON. Illustrated $2.00 OLD LANDMARKS AND HISTORIC FIELDS OF MIDDLESEX. Illustrated 2.00 NOOKS AND CORNERS OF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST. Illustrated 3.50 CAPTAIN NELSON. A Romance of Colonial Days .75 THE HEART OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS. Illustrated (Illuminated Cloth) 7.50 Tourist's Edition 3.00 AROUND THE HUB. A Boy's Book about Boston. Illustrated 1.50 NEW ENGLAND LEGENDS AND FOLK LORE. Illustrated 2.00 THE MAKING OF NEW ENGLAND. Illustrated 1.50 THE MAKING OF THE GREAT WEST. 1.75 OLD BOSTON TAVERNS. Paper .50 BURGOYNE'S INVASION OF 1777. .50 THE TAKING OF LOUISBURG. .50 _Any book on the above list sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price, by_ LEE AND SHEPARD, BOSTON [Illustration: _East View of_ Hell Gate, _in the Province of_ New York. _W A Williams Del. 1725_ _1. Hoorns Hook._ _3. Hancock's Rock._ _5. Morrisena._ _7. Pinfold's Place._ _9. The Pot._ _11. The Frying Pan._ _2. The Gridiron._ _4. The Mill Rock._ _6. Bahanna's Island._ _8. Hallet's Point._ _10. The Hogs back._] Decisive Events in American History THE CAMPAIGN OF TRENTON 1776-77 BY SAMUEL ADAMS DRAKE BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 10 MILK STREET 1895 COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY LEE AND SHEPARD _All rights reserved_ THE CAMPAIGN OF TRENTON PRESS OF Rockwell and Churchill BOSTON, U.S.A. CONTENTS PRELUDE 7 I--NEW YORK THE SEAT OF WAR 11 II--PLANS FOR DEFENCE 19 III--LONG ISLAND TAKEN 26 IV--NEW YORK EVACUATED 33 V--THE SITUATION REVIEWED 43 VI--THE RETREAT THROUGH THE JERSEYS 50 VII--LEE'S MARCH AND CAPTURE 59 VIII--THE OUTLOOK 68 IX--THE MARCH TO TRENTON 79 X--TRENTON 89 XI--THE FLANK MARCH TO PRINCETON 94 XII--AFTER PRINCETON 108 PRELUDE