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Subject: PRINCETON, BATTLE OF (1777)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF PRINCETON BATTLE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along assunpink's woody bank we left our campfires
Last Line: The men who make a nation great are men who dare to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): American Revolution; Princeton, Battle Of (1777)


ASSUNPINK AND PRINCETON [JANUARY 3, 1777], by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glorious the day when in arms at assunpink
Last Line: And you and your children would not have been free.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805); Princeton, Battle Of (1777); Reed, James (1724-1807); St. Clair, Arthur (1736-1818)


GENERAL MERCER AT PRINCETON, by CHARLES DAVIS PLATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here mercer fell, with bayonet-pierced breast
Last Line: And kindle in men's hearts the heroic flame.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Generals; Princeton, Battle Of (1777)


TRENTON AND PRINCETON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "on december, the sixth"
Last Line: "both officers and privates, / who liberty pursue"
Subject(s): "american Revolution;princeton, Battle Of (1777);trenton, Battle Of (1776);