Washington with the main part of his army was now encamped on the southern side of the Assanpink.

Cornwallis was on the other bank at Trenton.

Leaving a few men to keep up the campfires, and to throw up a slight fort by the bridge over the stream, Washington led his army away by night toward Princeton.

There he found several regiments hastening to Cornwallis.

He drove them away and led his army to the highlands of New Jersey where he would be free from attack.