When a force of 8,000 British came out from New York to Reoccupy Trenton, Washington cut in behind them, and at Princeton, finding some more British coming up widely separated and unable to support one another, he beat them in detail.
"The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet "The Confederacy and the Transvaal""
Sydney G. Fisher
The news had been sent rapidly along the chain of forts on either side of the swamp, and fifty men from each had been despatched to repair and Reoccupy the camp, which was now held by a thousand men, who had already begun to repair the palisades that had been fired by the Britons.
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty
Major-General Sedgwick, commanding the Sixth Corps, having pushed the pursuit of the enemy as far as the Fairfield Pass and the mountains, and reporting that the pass was very strong-one in which a small force of the enemy could hold in check and delay for a considerable time any pursuing force-I determined to follow the enemy by a flank movement, and, accordingly, leaving McIntosh's brigade of cavalry and Neil's brigade of infantry to continue harassing the enemy, I put the army in motion for Middletown, and orders were immediately sent to Major-General French, at Frederick, to Reoccupy Harper's Ferry, and send a force to occupy Turner's Pass, in South Mountains.
"Three Years in the Federal Cavalry"
Willard Glazier