From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 4. –This morning, before daybreak, (the weather being foggy,) the rebels attempted, with all their force, in six columns, to penetrate on the outposts of our army; they began their attack with three of them on the second…
All posts in Battles
Burning of Kingston
October 14. –Yesterday, General Vaughan, having under his command a large body of British, who have committed various acts of vandalism, in their passage up the North River, landed a number of men at Esopus, marched up to the defenceless town of Kingston, about two miles from the river, and immediately set it on fire.…
Edward Sherburne
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 5. –Died at the American camp, near Pawling’s mill, this evening, Major Edward Sherburne, aide-de-camp to Major-General Sullivan. He received the mortal wound, of which he died, yesterday at the battle of Germantown, after having given the most…
English View of Ticonderoga
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Early this morning the people of Liverpool, in England, received the account of General Burgoyne and his brave forces having taken the fortress of Ticonderoga from the provincials, a place fortified so well both by art and nature as…
General Burgoyne Surrenders
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 17. –General Burgoyne having been defeated in a second trial on the field at Stillwater,1 and finding himself encircled without the least chance of escape, to-day surrendered to the Americans. General Gates, in a letter to his wife,…