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By Bill Coughlin, December 27, 2014
House of Alexander Douglass Marker
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1New Jersey (Mercer County), Trenton — House of Alexander Douglass
On South Broad Street at Livingston Street, on the left when traveling north on South Broad Street.
Here in the house of Alexander Douglass Washington called a council of war on the evening of January 2, 1777 when the flank movement to Princeton was decided upon — Map (db m3787) HM
2New Jersey (Mercer County), Trenton — Douglass House
On East Front Street at South Montgomery Street, on the right when traveling east on East Front Street. Reported missing.
Circa 1766, Home of Alexander Douglass, Quartermaster in Washington’s Army, who fought in the Battle of Assunpink, Jan. 2, 1777. Here on that date General Washington held the Council of War. Washington’s idea was to leave campfires burning on the . . . — Map (db m3746) HM
 
 
  
  
  
 
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