Excavation work began this month on a privately owned portion of a Revolutionary War battlefield that historical activists are trying to preserve from development by a prominent academic institute. The Princeton Battlefield Society is hoping to halt the plans of the Institute of Advanced Study, which is starting work to build faculty housing. They want to preserve the site where George Washington’s troops defeated the British at the Battle of Princeton in January 1777, and remain hopeful the institute will agree to halt work until the legal fight, which has played out over the past few years, ends.

December 13, 2015 ・ From Associated Press