• British Foot Soldiers
• British Cavalry: 16th Dragoons
• Hessian Foot Soldiers
• Hessian Cavalry: Mounted Jaegers
• American Foot and Artilllery Soldiers
• American Cavalry: Philadelphia City Troops
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• American Regiments in the Battles of Trenton and Princeton
• British Soldiers in the Battle of Princeton
• Hessian Soldiers in the Battle of Trenton

British Foot Soldiers

•40^th Regiment
Men - cocked hat, red coat with buff facing, buff trousers
Officers - same as above with red sash and sword

•42^nd Regiment (The Black Watch)
Men - bonnet, red coat with green facing, kilt
Officers - same as above with red sash and sword

•55^th Regiment
Men - cocked hat, red coat with green facing, white trousers
Officers - same as above with red sash and sword

•Light Infantry
Men - conical hat with silver marking, red coat, buff facing, buff trousers
Officers - same as above with red sash

•Grenadiers
Men - bearskin hat, red coat, white facing, white trousers
Officers - same as above with red sash and sword

British Cavalry: 16th Dragoons

Hessian Foot Soldiers

•Von Lossberg Fusiliers
Men - conical gold hat, dark blue coat, orange facing, white trousers
Officers - cocked hat, dark blue coat with orange and gold facing, white trousers, red sash and sword

•Von Knyphausen Fusiliers
Men - conical gold hat, dark blue coat, dark blue facing, buff trousers
Officers - cocked hat, dark blue coat, dark blue and gold facing, buff trousers, red sash and sword

Hessian Cavalry: Mounted Jaegers

American Foot and Artillery Soldiers

•Rifle Regiment (typical)
Men - cocked hat, dark blue fringed jacket, white trousers
Officers - cocked hat, dark blue fringed jacket, dark blue trousers, red sash and sword

•Continental Line Regiment (typical)
Men - cocked hat, blue coat with red facing, buff trousers
Officers - same as above with red sash and sword

•Continental Artillery
Men - cocked hat, blue coat, red facing, white trousers
Officers - cocked hat, blue coat, red and gold facing, white trousers, red sash and sword

•Continental Marines
Men - black round hat, green coat, white facing, white trousers
Officers - same as above with silver epaulet on right shoulder

•14^th Continental Line (Glover's Marblehead)
Men - cocked hat, dark blue coat, white facing, white pantaloons
Officers - cocked hat, dark blue coat, white and gold facing, white trousers, sword

•Haslet's Delaware Regiment (The Delaware Blues)
Men -conical hat, blue coat, red facing, buff trousers
Officers - as above with red sash

American Cavalry: Philadelphia City Troops

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American Regiments in the Battles of Trenton and Princeton

The regiments that were present at these battles, using the designation(T) or (P) for those only at Princeton or Trenton, were as follows:

Continental Line Regiments

Delaware - Haslet

New Hampshire - 2d (Reed), 5^th (Stark), 8^th (Poor)

Massachusetts - 4^th (Nixon), 12^th (Little), 13^th (Reed), 14^th (Glover), 15^th (Pattersoon), 16^th (Sargent), 23^rd (Bailey), 26^th (Baldwin), 27^th (Hutchinson), (T), 4^th Massachusetts (Shepard)

Rhode Island -9^th (Varnum), 11^th (Hitchcock)

Connecticut - 19^th (Webb), 20^th (Durkee) (T)

New York -1^st Virginia (Read), 3^rd Virginia (Weedon), 4^th Virginia (Elliot), 5^th Virginia (scott0, 6^th Virginia (Buckner)

Pennsylvania -2^nd Pennsylvania (De Haas), (P), 8^th Pennsylvania (Brodhead0 (P), 10^th Pennsylvania (Penrose) (P), 11^th Pennsylvania (Humpton) (P)

Maryland -1^st Maryland (Stone) (T)

Continental Rifle Regiments

Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment (Hand), Miles State Rifle regiment (Miles), 12^th Pennsylvania (Cooke) (P)

Maryland and Virginia Rifle regiment (Rawlings)

Continental Artillery - - (Knox) (T) - this unit was split up between various brigades for the Battle of Princeton

Continental Marines - (Nicholas) (P), (Shippen) (P)

Militia Foot Regiments

Connecticut - (Chester), (Ward), (Bradley) (T)

Delaware - (Rodney)

New Jersey Gloucester County - (Ellis), (Somers), (Seeley) (T)

Cumberland County - (Newcomb), (Potter)

Salem County - ( Dick), (Holmes) (T)

Burlington County - (Borden) (T), (Reynolds) (T)

Hunterdon County - (Chambers) (T), (Hunt) (T), (Mehelm) (T), (Smith) (T)

Pennsylvania and Maryland German Regiment - (Haussegger)

Pennsylvania Chester County - (Moore)

Cumberland County - (Watts), (Montgomery)

Lancaster County - (Klotz)

York County - (McAllister)

Bucks County - (Hart)

Rhode Island - (Lippitt)

Militia Rifle Regiments

Pennsylvania - (Morgan), (Bayard), (Nixon)

Philadelphia - (Matlack)

Militia Light Infantry Regiments

Philadelphia - (Henry) (P)

Militia Artillery

Pennsylvania State

New Jersey State (P)

Virginia State (T)

Militia Cavalry

Philadelphia First City Troop

The total number of American troops involved in the first Battle of Trenton was about 2,400 and in the Battle of Princeton about 6,000. The opposing force at Trenton was about 1,600 and at Princeton about 850.

British Soldiers in the Battle of Princeton

4^th Brigade under Lt. Colonel Charles Mawheed

This Brigade entered Princeton on January 2, 1777, to take over the garrisoning of the town from the already departed 2^nd Brigade under Brigadier General Leslie, and it was apparently quite unfamiliar with the locale, as demonstrated by the failure to re-establish a picket post at the Quaker Road (General Leslie had placed 100 men on alert duty there).

The 4^th Brigade consisted of the following units:

17^th Regiment of British Foot                 - about 246 men
40^th Regiment of British Foot                 - about 333 men
55^th Regiment of British Foot                 - about 116 men
1 troop, 16^th Dragoons, Mounted          - about 30 men
6 troops, 16^th Dragoons, unmounted      - about 204 men
less troops at Hillsborough                      - 70 men
Total at Princeton                               about 859 men

Casualties suffered by these troops at the Battle of Princeton were reported to be as follows:

                                                Killed     Wounded     Missing or Captured
17^th Regiment of British Foot     13         53                     35
40^th Regiment of British Foot     0           1                       93
55^th Regiment of British Foot     5           4                       72
Total                                         18         58                     200
 

There is no report of Dragoon casualties.

Of those killed, one was an officer - Captain William Leslie, son of General Leslie. Five officers were wounded and four were captured. The Americans suffered about 35 killed, including Brigadier General Mercer of New Jersey, Colonel Haslet of Delaware, Colonel Porter of Massachusetts, Captain Neil of the New Jersey Artillery, Captain Fleming of Virginia and Captain Shippen of the Marines. No Americans were captured and the number of wounded was not reported.

Hessian Soldiers in the Battle of Trenton

The 42^nd British Regiment of Foot, the Black Watch, was stationed in Bordentown with Colonel von Donop's Hessian Brigade during the first Battle of Trenton. On December 29, 1776, they moved to the outskirts of Maidenhead (Lawerenceville). Thereafter they took part with the von Donop Brigade in the skirmishes of the second Battle of Trenton.

Rall's Brigade

Came to America in 1776 under the command of Major General Werner von Mirbach. When the General suffered a paralytic stroke after the battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776, the command was turned over to Colonel Johann Gottlieb Rall, who commanded the Grenadier Regiment in the Brigade.

The Brigade was moved to New Jersey from New York on November 28, 1776, and took up quarters in Trenton on December 14, 1776. Another Hessian brigade under Colonel von Donop moved to Bordentown on that date and was not engaged during the first Battle of Trenton on December 26, 1776 (the second day of Christmas according to German custom).

Rall's Brigade consisted of three regiments, Rall's Regiment of Grenadiers, von Lossberg's and von Knyphausen's regiments of Fusiliers, each with identical tables of organization as follows:

4 companies, 21 officers, 60 non-commissioned officers, 5 surgeons, 22 drummers, and 525 enlisted men - for a total of 633 men per regiment. The actual strength of the Hessian Brigade at the first Battle of Trenton was reported to be 1566, including 50 Jaegers and 20 men from the British 16^th Dragoon Regiment.

Casualties suffered by the Hessian brigade at the first Battle of Trenton were as follows:

                                        Killed or missing     Wounded     Captured
Rall's Grenadiers                 13*                         11                 280
von Lussberg's Fusiliers         7                           58                 278
von Knyphausen's Fusiliers    2                           14                 310
Total                                   22                           83                 868**

* Including Colonel Rall
** Plus 23 officers

In addition , about 27 of the wounded Hessians would appear to have been captured, since General Washington reported to congress a total of 918 captured. Few, if any, of the Jaegers and Dragoons were casualties. Fifty-three of the Hessian escapees went to Princeton, and the remainder went to join Colonel von Donop at Bordentown, and presumably took part with that brigade in the second Battle of Trenton on January 2, 1777.

American losses in the first Battle of Trenton as reported by General Washington to Congress were 2 officers (Captain William Washington and Lt. James Monroe, a future President of the United States) and two men wounded. None were killed.