Trenton Battle Monument Commemorative, December 10, 2023
On Sunday morning, December 10th of this year, a solemn ceremonial wreath laying took place at the Trenton Battle Monument where, as State Historian Roger Williams explained, “…our liberty began”. Attending were Darryl S. Addington, Secretary General of the Sons of the American Revolution, his wife Mary, and the combined Color Guards of the NJSSAR and Sons of the Revolution of New Jersey, led by SR-NJ President Ben Strong. The Addington's came from North Carolina to be part of the day’s historic and pivotal events. They began their visit to New Jersey accompanied by NJSSAR President Robert Meyer with a tour of the sites of the Ten Crucial Days, hosted by Williams through his non-profit, TenCrucialDays.org. They visited the parks at Washington’s Crossing, the Old Barracks Museum in Trenton, and Princeton Battlefield.
YouTube video, by malaPolska, of the reenactment of the Battle of Trenton (December 26, 1776), on the cold morning of Saturday, December 30th, 2023. 247 years later, along the original route of then General George Washington's Continental Army, starting at Trenton’s Washington Monument in Historic walking down to Mill Hill Park, to site of the Battle of Assunpink Creek on January 2, 1777. The 19th Century iron bridge standing in for the Queen Street bridge where the battle actually occured.
