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[[File:Nassau Hall Museum (1886).png|thumb|left|The Faculty Room in 1886, when it served as home to the art and natural history collections]]
[[Image:NassauEntranceCloseup.JPG|thumb|200px|Nassau Hall entrance]]
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▲The [[British Army#British Empire|British Redcoats]] seized control of Nassau Hall in 1776, and American soldiers were forced to fire upon their own building in the [[Battle of Princeton]] on January 3, 1777. Three cannonballs were fired, but only two made contact. One glanced off the south side of the building; the damage can still be seen today. Another cannonball flew through a window in the Faculty Room and "decapitated" [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George's]] portrait. The cannonball was said to have come from a gun in the artillery company commanded by [[Alexander Hamilton]], who had been rejected by Princeton when he first came to the colonies. The result of the battle was a decisive [[Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriot]] victory, and Nassau Hall was retaken by the Americans.
The [[Congress of the Confederation]] convened in Nassau Hall for a little more than four months (from June 30, 1783, to November 4, 1783). The normal location in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] had to be vacated [[Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783|because of a mutiny]] by [[Continental Army]] soldiers.
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