From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 23. –One of the surgeons attending the military hospital at Boston, has written home, that the provincials in the late engagement, “had either exhausted their ball, or were determined that every wound should prove fatal. Their muskets were…
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Battle of Hog Island
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 28. –Yesterday a party of the American army at Cambridge, to the number of between two and three hundred men, had orders to drive off the live stock from Hog and Noddle’s islands. In attempting to carry out…
Skirmish at Grape Island
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 26. –Last Sabbath1 about ten o’clock A. M., an express arrived at General Thomas’s quarters at Roxbury, Massachusetts, informing him that four sloops, two of them armed, had sailed from Boston to the south shore of the bay,…
Siege of Boston
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 21. –A correspondent writing from Boston, says: — “As to the inhabitants removing, they are suffered to go out under certain restrictions. This liberty was obtained after many town-meetings, and several conferences between their committee and General Gage.…
Peter Oliver to His Brother
Dear Brother, We learn by the Cerberus man-of-war, which arrived last Thursday the 25th of May, that you have done with the thoughts of coming to Boston at present, which rejoices your friends. I received yours dated at Bath, and am much obliged to you. Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost;…