Battle of Millstone

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Battle of Millstone Date January 20, 1777 Location Millstone, New Jersey Result American victory Belligerents  United States Great Britain Commanders Philemon Dickinson Strength 400 500 Casualties and losses 25 killed or wounded 12 captured 4 killed or wounded 49 captured

v • d • e New York and New Jersey 1776–1777 Long Island – Kip's Bay – Harlem Heights – Pell's Point – White Plains – Fort Washington – Iron Works Hill – Trenton – Assunpink Creek – Princeton – Forage War – Millstone – Bound Brook – Short Hills

The Battle of Millstone, also known as the Battle of Van Nest's Mills, was a skirmish that occurred on January 20, 1777 during the American Revolutionary War. After the Battle of Princeton, Washington's soldiers traveled north following the Millstone River to Somerset Court House (now Millstone, New Jersey), then proceeded to Morristown.

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From New Brunswick, a British foraging party of a few hundred men also went to Somerset Court House, reaching Van Nest's Mill (present day Manville, New Jersey). After seizing flour and livestock, the British unit set up defenses on the Millstone River, including three cannons. The militia posted in the area managed to surprise the British party by crossing the cold, waist deep, river and managed to seize back the supplies.

General Philemon Dickinson, Raritan, New Jersey, January 23: "I have the pleasure to inform you that on Monday last with about 450 men chiefly our militia I attacked a foraging party near V. Nest Mills consisting of 500 men with 2 field pieces, which we routed after an engagement of 20 minutes and brought off 107 horses, 49 wagons, 115 cattle, 70 sheep, 40 barrels of flour - 106 bags and many other things, 49 prisoners."^[1]

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• The Battle of Millstone
• Revolutionary War Battles: The Battle of Millstone

v • d • e New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War 1776 Fort Lee • Washington's crossing of the Delaware • First Trenton 1777 Second Trenton • Princeton • Millstone • Short Hills • Forage War • Bound Brook • Red Bank • Middlebrook encampment 1778 Monmouth • Molly Pitcher • Baylor Massacre • Little Egg Harbor massacre • Chestnut Neck 1779 Paulus Hook 1780 Connecticut Farms • Springfield 1783 U.S. Capital at Princeton