Trumbull here represents multiple moments in the battle of Princeton, New Jersey. At the center, Brigadier General Hugh Mercer, cut off from his beleaguered men, with his dying horse beneath him, awaits the fatal blow from a British bayonet. In the middle distance, General George Washington, on a brown horse, accompanied by Dr. Benjamin Rush, charges onto the field to rally his troops. By lowering the position of the head of Mercer’s horse, which was raised in an earlier oil sketch of this scene, Trumbull shifted the focus from Mercer’s death to the commander in chief, whose bravery gave the American army a crucial victory.
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