From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The evacuation of Camden animated the friends of Congress, and daily increased their numbers; while the British posts fell in quick succession. The day after the evacuation, the garrison of Orangeburgh, consisting of seventy British militia and twelve regulars,…
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Congress Bankrupt
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 7.—The Congress is finally bankrupt! Last Saturday a large body of the inhabitants with paper dollars in their hats by way of cockades, paraded the streets of Philadelphia, carrying colors flying, with a dog tarred, and instead of…
Discontent among the Hessians
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 30—The last and most authentic advices from Charleston, in South Carolina, are, that the greatest discontents have for some time past prevailed among the foreign mercenaries employed in the garrison of that place; jealousies having arisen from their…
Doctors Washington & Price
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Last week, the Senatus Academicus of Yale College, at New Haven, in Connecticut, conferred the Doctorate of Laws upon his Excellency General Washington, and also upon the Reverend Doctor Price, of London.1 1 New Haven Journal, May 2.
Hubbel’s Descent on Connecticut
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 20.—Day before yesterday, Captains Hubbel and Ives, with the assistance of other spirited loyalists, manned eight whale boats, and left Lloyd’s Neck, with an intention to make descents on the coasts of Connecticut. At sunsetting they discovered a…