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yet it was once the scene of fiercest battle. For the 
Drumthwacket farm is the battle-ground of that im- 
portant encounter of 1777 between the British and 
the Continental troops., known as the Battle of 
Princeton, the turning point of the Revolution, in 
which Washington was victorious. To this day, 
Garden at Drumthwacket, Princeton, New Jersey. 
cannon ball and grape shot are dug up in the Drum- 
thwacket fields. The Lodge built in 1696 was, at 
Washington’s request, the shelter for the wounded 
British officers ; and the Washington Spring in front 
of the Lodge furnished water to Washington. The 
group of trees 011 the left of the upper pond marks 
the sheltered and honored graves of the British 
soldiers, where have slept for one hundred and 
