Wilkinson also gives a map showing the movements between Dec. 25, 1776, and Jan. 3, 1777, and this is the basis of the map in C. C. Haven's New Historic Manual concerning the battles of Trenton and Princeton (Trenton, 1871).
FROM WILKINSON'S ATLAS.
The advance, with which Wilkinson was, came by G to the vicinity of the wood A and Quaker meeting-house B. The main column turned off and followed the line b. Gen. Mercer proceeded to f. A detachment of the British at d, with officers reconnoitring at a a, discovered the American line on the route h; but coming to g, they also discovered Mercer at f, who wheeled by the line c, and gaining the orchard of Wm. Clark's house (5) confronted at 1—2 the British detachment now formed at 3—4. The Americans retreated when the British advanced to the slope (o o o), where they saw Moulder's battery, X, near Thomas Clark's house (7), which Washington had sent from his main line at h, together with other troops by the line r r, which induced the British to retreat on the line e e, while Mawhood, their commander, fled with a few infantry by the line, s s. At this juncture another British regiment, which had advanced from Princeton to C, fell back, and joining other troops took post at K and C, where they confronted Washington's main body, which now deployed at i i; and as the Americans attacked, the British fled to the college building (P), and then beyond by the route t t. Cf. plan in Lossing's Field-Book, ii. 235. Carrington's plan of Princeton (p. 278) gives further details from later study.
CAMPAIGN OF 1777.
A map in Captain Hall's Hist. of the Civil War in America (London, 1780), vol. i.
Howe's campaign of 1777 was the ruin of his military reputation.[903] Jones, in his severe criticism upon Howe, unjustly charges Galloway with making the suggestion of the expedition to the Head of Elk.[904] It is certain that Galloway threw himself upon Howe's protection not far from the time when Howe committed himself to a plan of capturing Philadelphia. About the same time it has been charged that General Lee, by a treasonable project, aided Howe's purposes in the same direction.