MAKE A MEME View Large Image The Hessians - Wiederhold's plan of the Battle of Trenton.jpg Widerhold's Hessian officer plan of the battle of Trenton Edward J Lowell http //archive org/details/hessiansotherger00lowe The Hessians 1884 facing p 92 published 1884 ...
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Keywords: The Hessians - Wiederhold's plan of the Battle of Trenton.jpg Widerhold's Hessian officer plan of the battle of Trenton Edward J Lowell http //archive org/details/hessiansotherger00lowe The Hessians 1884 facing p 92 published 1884 Widerholdt pd-old thumb left Original sketch Caption <center>WIEDERHOLD'S PLAN OF THE BATTLE OF TRENTON ” FROM THE ARCHIVES AT MARBURG PLAN</center> of the affair which took place on the 26th of December 1776 at Trenton between a corps of six thousand rebels commanded by General Washington and a brigade of Hessians commanded by Colonel Rall A Trenton B Picket of an officer and twenty-four men Wiederhold C Captain Altenbocum's company of the Lossberg regiment which was quartered in the neighborhood and which formed in front of the captain's quarters while the picket occupied the enemy D Picket of one captain one officer and seventy-five men E One officer and fifty Jägers who immediately withdrew over the bridge Grothausen F Detachment of one officer and thirty men which joined Donop's corps G Place where the regiments stopped after leaving the town and where Colonel Rall attempted to make an attack on the town with his own regiment and that of Lossberg but was violently driven back to I and taken prisoner with the regiments; meanwhile the Regiment von Knyphausen should have covered the flank K Place where the Regiment von Knyphausen had likewise to surrender after trying to reach the bridge The cannon of the Lossberg regiment were with the Knyphausen regiment and unfortunately stuck in the marsh; and while they were being extricated the moment for gaining the bridge was lost and the bridge strongly occupied by the enemy L Cannon of the Lossberg regiment M Cannon of the Knyphausen regiment which were not with the regiment during the affair N Cannon of Rall's regiment dismounted in the beginning O Attack of the enemy from the wood P The enemy advance and surround the town Q Two battalions of the enemy following the Knyphausen regiment R Last manÅ“uvre and attack upon the Knyphausen regiment S Cannon of the rebels T Place where General Washington posted himself and gave his orders Images from The Hessians 109 Battle of Trenton
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