Nassau Cannonball, Alexander Hamilton Battle of Princeton

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2750   12 years ago
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According to a popular story told and retold over the years, during the Battle of Princeton young artillery commander Alexander Hamilton directed his cannons at the remaining redcoats who had holed up in Nassau Hall, and fired a shot straight through the window, neatly decapitating the portrait of King George II which hung in the room. The earliest available reference to Hamilton’s being behind the cannonball I have found is in Sir George Otto Trevelyan’s “The American Revolution” published in 1905. On page 137 of volume three he writes “Even in that quarter there was very little bloodshed, but some profanation; for young Alexander Hamilton, with the irreverence of a student fresh from a rival place of education, planted his guns on the sacred grass of the academical campus, and fired a six-pound shot which is said to have passed through the head of King George the Second’s portrait in the Chapel.”

Earlier, In 1773, Hamilton applied to the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) asking to be allowed to study at a quicker pace and complete his studies in a shorter time.[22] The college's Board of Trustees refused his request...But later,
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