Princeton Battle Monument

The association, which dates back to 1887 and includes such local notables as Allan Marquand and Moses Taylor Pyne, was required to match the $30,000 with an equal sum raised independently.[3] On February 24, 1908, having raised the requisite funds, the association commissioned prominent Beaux Arts sculptor Frederick MacMonnies to build the monument.A 21-gun salute by the Princeton University Field Artillery ROTC and an invocation by the Right Reverend Paul Matthews, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, marked the festivities.After years of neglect and unsuccessful restorations, the monument underwent professional conservation treatment in 2006 and 2007 as part of the State of New Jersey's historic preservation initiative.[13] The inscription on the rear face of the monument, composed by Andrew Fleming West, reads: Here memory lingers to recall the guiding mind, Whose daring plan outflanked the foe and turned dismay to hope, When Washington, with swift resolve, marched through the night, To fight at dawn and venture all in one victorious battle for our freedom.

The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777 by John Trumbull

Washington at Princeton by Charles Willson Peale (1779)

President Warren G. Harding at the dedication of the monument

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