...the capture of the Hessians at Trenton, the battle at Princeton, the action at Monmouth, and the surrender at Yorktown. On the upper part of the front of the pedestal to be engraved as follows: The United States , in Congress assembled, ordered this statue to be erected in the year of our Lord 1783, in honor of George Washington, the illustrious commander-in-chief of the armies of the United States of America...