From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 5. –Amongst the worthies who have joined, or put themselves under the protection of Howe and company, at Trenton, we find the names of the following noted personages, viz.: John Allen, Esq., (son of the celebrated rhetorical, impartial,…
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Battle of Trenton
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. December 26. –General Washington, finding it absolutely necessary to rouse the spirits of the army, which have been sorely depressed by the long series of disasters which have attended us for almost the whole of this month, resolved to…
Fort Washington
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 18. –By a person lately from the American camp, a gentleman of undoubted veracity, who was prisoner and enlarged by General Howe, we are informed that the enemy lost before the lines of Fort Washington, seventeen hundred killed…
Fort Washington Taken
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 16. –About two o’clock this afternoon a large body of British troops from New York, with a body of Hessians from King’s Bridge, made an attack upon the American lines at that place. At the same time, a…
Markoe to Oswald: Fort Lee Taken
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Yesterday, a party of the British army landed near Dobb’s ferry, and soon after took possession of Fort Lee. On the appearance of our troops, the rebels fled like scared rabbits, and in a few moments after we reached…