From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. July 9. –Yesterday morning, about half-past two o’clock, we were called up and informed that the regulars had attacked the lines at Roxbury. We heard distinctly the firing of small arms and artillery on Roxbury Neck, and soon discovered…
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Fast Day
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. July 21. –Yesterday, agreeably to the recommendation of the delegates in the hon. Continental Congress, was observed with the utmost solemnity, by fasting, abstinence, and devotion. In all the churches in New York were large congregations, and excellent discourses,…
British Account of the Battle of Breed’s Hill
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 26. –The Massachusetts occasional newspaper of today, gives the following account of the action at Boston on the seventeenth: –“This town was alarmed at break of day, by a firing from the Lively ship-of-war; and a report was…
Fire-arms at Worship
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 22. –The Provincial Congress of South Carolina broke up, after three weeks of unremitted application. They have requested, by public advertisement, that men of every denomination and persuasion will carry with them to all places of divine worship,…
Battle of Breed’s Hill
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 17. –Last night a detachment from the camp at Cambridge, marched to Charlestown, and there took possession of Breed’s Hill, about half a mile from the ferry. Their intrenching tools not coming up in season, it was twelve…