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.
Location
Details
Memorial Type:
Plaques On Stone
Access:
Public
Wars Commemorated:
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Year Dedicated:
1916
Photograph By:
GARY NIGH
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