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On This Day 1/12/1777
1/14/2011 6:38:32 PM

Brigadier General Hugh Mercer dies from wounds received in the "Battle of Princeton"

American Brigadier General Hugh Mercer dies from the seven bayonet wounds he received during the "Battle of Princeton". Brigadier General Mercer's military service ranged over two continents and three Armies. Born in Roseheaerty, Scotland, Brigadier General Mercer studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen and first served as an assistant surgeon in Bonnie Prince Charles Army of 1745.

After the Scots uprising against the British met its devastatingly bloody end at Culloden on April 16, 1746, Brigadier General Mercer returned to Aberdeenshire, where he spent a year in hiding before moving to Pennsylvania in March of 1747.

Once in America, Brigadier General Mercer enlisted in the Army of the Hanoverian King George III, whome he had sought to overthrow during the uprising in Scotland. During the "Seven Years War", Brigadier General Mercer first served in General Edward Braddock's disastrous expedition of 1755, in which he was wounded and then again with Lieutenant Colonel John Armstrong's troops at the raid of Kittanning in 1756.

From 1760 to 1775 Brigadier General Mercer worked as an apothecary and practiced medicine in Fredericksburg, Virginia. When the American colonists took up arms against the British, he quickly returned to his rebellious roots.

When first commissioned as a Captain in the Continental Army, Brigadier General Mercer was charged with leading the "Independent Company of the Town of Fredricksburg. Brigadier General Mercer was soon made a Lieutenant Colonel, commanding a militia Battalion.

By December 1775, Brigadier General Mercer was a full Colonel and the first Commander of the Third Virginia Regiment, with luinaries including James Monroe and John Marshall under his command.

General George Washington personally requested Brigadier General Mercer's promotion to Brigadier General in June 1776. Six months later, Brigadier General Mercer led a Brigade during the "Battle of Princeton".

Although famed medic Benjamin Rush tended to Brigadier General Mercer's seven bayonet wounds, he could not save his medical colleague and fellow Patriot. Brigadier General Mercer died in the Thomas Clarke House on the eastern end of the battlefield, nine days after the battle ended in victory for the Patriots.

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Hugh Mercer American Brigadier General
George III King of Great Britain
Edward Braddock British General
John Armstrong British Lieutenant Colonel
James Monroe Patriot, President - USA
John Marshall Patriot
Benjamin Rush Patriot, Medical Physician

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