From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. July 2.—Last night, Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton marched out with a detachment of cavalry, and early this morning attacked a party of the rebel Nags, commanded by a Colonel Sheldon, in the neighborhood of Bedford. The Americans’ situation was in a…
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Operations in the South – British Account
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 29.—A correspondent in Charleston, South Carolina, gives the following account of the late movements of the two armies at the southward:—”On the twenty-eighth of April, a party of the British army, under the command of Major Fraser, landed…
Fort Lafayette Taken
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 31.—Day before yesterday, fifteen hundred men, consisting of British and Hessian grenadiers, light infantry, volunteers of Ireland and Yagers, landed on Teller’s Point, eight miles below Peekskill, on the North River,1 and the following day another party landed…
British Account of the Taking of Fort Lafayette
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. On Monday morning, the thirty-first of May, part of the army, under the command of Major-General Vaughan, landed on the east side of Hudson River, about eight miles below Verplanck’s Point. The corps intended to land on the west…
Colonel Hyde’s Visit to Jersey
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 27.—Yesterday, the British, in two divisions, landed in the county of Monmouth, in New Jersey; one party at Shoal Harbor, which marched to Middletown, and entered the village at daybreak; the other went in flat-bottomed boats, into Shrewsbury…