Editing Mount Holly, New Jersey (section)

===Revolutionary War===
On December 17, 1776, Colonel [[Samuel Griffin]] of the [[Continental Army]] crossed the [[Delaware River]] with 600 men, mostly untrained men and boys with little equipment, who marched to Mount Holly where they set up a few 3-pounder artillery pieces on Iron Works Hill. [[Hessian (soldiers)|Hessian]] commanders von Block and [[Carl von Donop]] were told that there were 3,000 American troops at Mount Holly.

By December 23, 1776, 2,000 [[Hessian (soldiers)|Hessians]] were moved from [[Bordentown, New Jersey|Bordentown]] and positioned at The Mount in Mount Holly, where they engaged in a three-day-long artillery exchange, known as the [[Battle of Iron Works Hill]] or Battle of Mount Holly, with the Americans on Iron Works Hill. The Americans slipped away that night.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130211011338/http://www.ironworkshill.org/history.htm History]}}, Battle of Iron Works Hill. Accessed October 19, 2013.</ref>

After [[George Washington]] crossed the [[Delaware River]] on December 25, 1776, the fact that thousands of [[Hessian (soldiers)|Hessian troops]] had been drawn to Mount Holly aided in the [[Continental Army]]'s success in the [[Battle of Trenton]] the next day, a surprising American victory that helped turn the Army's fading morale after the disastrous defeat at the [[Battle of Fort Washington]] just weeks before and the ignominious retreat through New Jersey.<ref>[http://www.burlco.lib.nj.us/county/history/diversionary.html Diversionary Battleground of December, 1776], Burlington County Library. Accessed December 29, 2006.</ref>