From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 28.—Chevalier d’Astouches, with the French fleet, lately returned to Rhode Island from an unsuccessful encounter with the British squadron in the Chesapeake. The subjoined relation of his recent operations, is given by a writer at Newport:— “The gale…
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Campbell’s Cherokee Expedition
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 15.—The North Carolina boys have returned from the expedition against the Cherokees crowned with success. Colonel Arthur Campbell, who commanded them, in his report to Mr. Jefferson, dated this day, gives the following, circumstantial account of their experience:…
An English view of Andre’s Execution – Jumonville
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 14.—A writer in the London Public Advertiser,1 gives the following reflections on the catastrophe of Major Andre:— As nothing that concerns humanity can ever be imagined foreign to a British breast, any prefatory apology for a discussion of…
Mud Ammunition
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. In the late encounter between Captain Hubbel and the Jonathans of Connecticut, at Lloyd’s Neck, the latter used balls of baked mud filled with bits of iron, and pieces of rusty spikes, instead of bullets. This shows the state…
Hubbell at Lloyd’s Neck
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 10.—Captain Hubbel, of the Associated Loyalists, has had another encounter with the pious Presbyterians at Lloyd’s Neck.1 This spirited officer, with his little band of true Englishmen, has made three attempts to effect the business pointed out to…