American forces led by George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, held the British at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek in Trenton on January 2, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War and went around them during the night to attack and defeat the British forces in Princeton on January 3, 1277 (Battle of Princeton)
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