From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 20. –This morning, a young woman passing an evacuated house in Woodbridge, New Jersey, saw through the window a drunken Hessian soldier, who had straggled from his party. There being no men within less than a mile of…
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Report on the Ravages of the British
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 18. –The committee appointed by Congress some time ago to inquire into the conduct of the British troops in their different marches through New York and New Jersey, have to-day reported: –That in every place where the enemy…
Hugh Gaine’s Facts and Criticisms
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The late proclamation, issued by Sir William Howe, we hear, has been read to the several corps in the rebel army, by their respective leaders, who strove to show them that the design of it was to lead them…
Skirmish at Boundbrook
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 14. –Day before yesterday, General Lord Cornwallis, Generals Grant and Matthews, with the first battalion of grenadiers, one battalion of light infantry, a detachment of the guards, the light horse, two battalions of Hessians, and the Yagers, commanded…
Attack on Peekskill, N. Y. – British account of the Attack on Peekskill
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 27. –The American post at Peekskill, New York, since the removal of the militia of the Eastern States, has been in a manner in a defenceless situation, there being only part of two regiments stationed there, under the…