SPIRIT OF JUSTICE WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Plaques On Stone
Year Dedicated: 1916
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Photograph By: GARY NIGH
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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.
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