Lord Cornwallis’ Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Nisbet Balfour, Commander at Ninety Six: I have the happiness to inform you, that on Wednesday the 16th instant, I totally defeated General Gates’s army. One thousand were killed and wounded, about eight hundred taken prisoners. We are in possession of eight pieces of brass cannon, all they had…
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Colonel Twiggs’ Expedient
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. During the siege of Charleston, parties were frequently sent down to beat up the British quarters about Savannah, with a view to distress the enemy, and to draw troops from the siege. Colonel Twiggs, with his men, united with…
Wayne’s Attack on the Bergen Block-House
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. July 19.—This morning, the first and second Pennsylvania brigades, commanded by Brigadier-General Wayne, marched from their respective encampments for the purpose of collecting and bringing off those cattle in Bergen county, New Jersey, immediately exposed to the enemy. After…
Descent on Springfield, N. J.
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 24.—Yesterday morning, the British marched in force from Elizabethtown, New Jersey, under command of the unprincipled, mercenary Knyphausen. After driving in the American pickets, they reached Connecticut Farms about sunrise, where a scattering fire began between them and…
British Account of the Operations in Jersey – British Account of Mrs. Caldwell’s Death
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. A British officer gives the following account of the recent operations of the royal army in New Jersey:—”On Tuesday night, (6th,) the British troops made their first landing upon Elizabethtown meadows, and were crossed over by divisions in succession…