After George Washington crossed the Delaware and won a victory at Trenton on Dec. 26, 1776, he did not rest on his laurels. Using Patton—like tactics to press the battle, he then marched his troops to attack the British at Princeton, NJ on January 3, 1777. Washington himself participated in the attack on Princeton, along with a young artillery captain named Alexander Hamilton. Yes, this is the same person who would later become a co—author of the Federalist Papers, Secretary of the Treasury, and whose image appears on US ten dollar bills today. According to the biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (p. 84—85), Capt. Hamilton arrived in Princeton to find that British Soldiers had occupied Princeton University, which consisted then of Nassau Hall and perhaps some few additional smaller building, such as their chapel. He laid siege to the university with his cannons and the British surrendered. If that wasn't bad enough, Hamilton was a King's College (now...(Read Full Post)