W Edward Porter IV Attorney at Law

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. ; Washington played a central role before and during the American Revolution His disdain for the British military had begun when he was abashedly passed over for promotion into the Regular Army He was opposed to the continuing taxes imposed by the British Parliament on the Colonies without proper representation. He and other colonists were also angered by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 which banned American settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains and protected the British fur trade, Photo of a table with chairs, Washington retreated across the Delaware to Pennsylvania but returned to New Jersey on January 3 launching an attack on British regulars at Princeton with 40 Americans killed or wounded and 273 British killed or captured. American Generals Hugh Mercer and John Cadwalader were being driven back by the British when Mercer was mortally wounded then Washington arrived and led the men in a counterattack which advanced to within 30 yards (27 m) of the British line. ; Flora of the Potomac River Basin John Witherspoon New Jersey 2 Yes Yes Eastman Johnson's 1863 painting "The Lord is My Shepherd".