<P> In the urban environments of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Trenton there are plaques and other memorials placed to commemorate the actions that took place in and around those locations . The Princeton Battlefield and Washington's Crossing are National Historic Landmarks, with state parks also preserving all or part of the locations where events of this campaign occurred in those areas . Morristown National Historical Park preserves locations occupied by the Continental Army during the winter months at the end of the campaign . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> When the illustrious part that your Excellency has borne in this long and arduous contest becomes a matter of history, fame will gather your brightest laurels rather from the banks of the Delaware than from those of the Chesapeake . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--Cornwallis to Washington, after dining with him following the Siege of Yorktown, 1781 </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> When the illustrious part that your Excellency has borne in this long and arduous contest becomes a matter of history, fame will gather your brightest laurels rather from the banks of the Delaware than from those of the Chesapeake . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--Cornwallis to Washington, after dining with him following the Siege of Yorktown, 1781 </Td> </Tr>

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