crosswix

Updated: June 17, 2025

Generals Mifflin and Cadwallader, who lay at Bordentown and Crosswix, with three thousand six hundred militia, were therefore ordered to join the Commander-in-chief, whose whole effective force, with this addition, did not exceed five thousand men. Lord Cornwallis advanced upon him the next morning; and about four in the afternoon, the van of the British army reached Trenton.

John Marshall - The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 : Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War : which Established the Independence of his Country and First : President of the United States