From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 23.—The enemy, says a correspondent, after the flogging of Burgoyne, have resumed their old trick of sham treaty. General Tryon (by what authority he best knows) has introduced into New Jersey a ridiculous publication under the title of…
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General Howe at Philadelphia
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 15.—Throughout the whole past winter, with General Washington within twenty miles of them, the British have remained quite unalarmed and in Philadelphia easy. Not a single attack has been attempted; and what is as extraordinary, not a single…
The Minute Intelligencer
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 1.—Amongst those who left Philadelphia on the approach of the enemy to that city, a gentleman who had with him a portable printing press, took refuge somewhere near Egg Harbor. By means of a well-conducted correspondence with a…
British Spies Executed
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 16.—In pursuance of orders from his excellency, the Commander-in-chief, a general court-martial was held at Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, when Henry Mansin (who confessed himself an officer in the army) and Wendal Myer, an inhabitant of the county, were…
Madam Shipley’s Prophecy
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 21.—After a most ridiculous gasconade upon the late movement of a detachment from the British troops into New Jersey, the publisher of the last week’s Trenton paper1 introduces a most comfortable prophecy of a good lady who lately…