Traversing the Ten Crucial Days Bus Tour
Traversing the Ten Crucial Days Bus Tour retraces the events of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton; December 25 1776 through to 3 January, 1777. You will learn about the military engagements between remaining rag-tag elements of George Washington’s army against Hessian and British troops at Trenton, Princeton, and areas in-between. Why and how did the battles happen? You will hear the remarkable stories of these ten days that breathed crucial new life into the apparently expiring American Revolution. The events are discussed in the context of the local, strategically important, central New Jersey towns, villages, and farms; occupied by families with diverse backgrounds; practicing varied religions such as Quakers, Presbyterians, and Anglicans; and holding complex views on loyalty to the Revolution or the King. Hear how the terrain, weaponry, and weather, influenced the ways the battles were fought and how the lives of the local people were disrupted by them. See where armies marched, fought, and struggled to survive on an otherwise peaceful landscape, while the course of human history hung in the balance.
Historical interpreter: Tour is led by Roger S. Williams; NJSSAR State Historian, Co-Founder of TenCrucialDays.org, a member of the Company of Military Historians, the Society of Military History and Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
Traversing the Ten Crucial Days Bus Tour retraces the events of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton; December 25 1776 through to 3 January, 1777. You will learn about the military engagements between remaining rag-tag elements of George Washington’s army against Hessian and British troops at Trenton, Princeton, and areas in-between. Why and how did the battles happen? You will hear the remarkable stories of these ten days that breathed crucial new life into the apparently expiring American Revolution. The events are discussed in the context of the local, strategically important, central New Jersey towns, villages, and farms; occupied by families with diverse backgrounds; practicing varied religions such as Quakers, Presbyterians, and Anglicans; and holding complex views on loyalty to the Revolution or the King. Hear how the terrain, weaponry, and weather, influenced the ways the battles were fought and how the lives of the local people were disrupted by them. See where armies marched, fought, and struggled to survive on an otherwise peaceful landscape, while the course of human history hung in the balance.
Historical interpreter: Tour is led by Roger S. Williams; NJSSAR State Historian, Co-Founder of TenCrucialDays.org, a member of the Company of Military Historians, the Society of Military History and Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
Traversing the Ten Crucial Days Bus Tour retraces the events of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton; December 25 1776 through to 3 January, 1777. You will learn about the military engagements between remaining rag-tag elements of George Washington’s army against Hessian and British troops at Trenton, Princeton, and areas in-between. Why and how did the battles happen? You will hear the remarkable stories of these ten days that breathed crucial new life into the apparently expiring American Revolution. The events are discussed in the context of the local, strategically important, central New Jersey towns, villages, and farms; occupied by families with diverse backgrounds; practicing varied religions such as Quakers, Presbyterians, and Anglicans; and holding complex views on loyalty to the Revolution or the King. Hear how the terrain, weaponry, and weather, influenced the ways the battles were fought and how the lives of the local people were disrupted by them. See where armies marched, fought, and struggled to survive on an otherwise peaceful landscape, while the course of human history hung in the balance.
Historical interpreter: Tour is led by Roger S. Williams; NJSSAR State Historian, Co-Founder of TenCrucialDays.org, a member of the Company of Military Historians, the Society of Military History and Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.