**New Brunswick at the Crossroads: A Town Caught Between Revolution and Occupation**
PEOPLE
KEY EVENTS
Washington Recrosses the Raritan and Returns to New Brunswick
Jan 1777
Washington's Army Retreats Through New Brunswick
Dec 1776
Forage Wars in Central New Jersey
Jan 1777
British Establish Supply Depot
Dec 1776
General Howe Headquartered at New Brunswick
Jun 1777
Queens College Operates Through the British Occupation
Nov 1776
STORIES
MODERN VOICE
The River That Shaped the War
New Brunswick does not look like a Revolutionary War town. It looks like what it is: a mid-sized New Jersey city with a university, a hospital district, and an old downtown that has been rebuilt sever...
HISTORICAL VOICE
The Army That Walked Through
John Neilson watched two armies pass through his town in the space of a week, and neither one was an army he would have recognized from the recruiting posters. Washington's soldiers came through firs...