At a special meeting of the Council of Safety: Jany. 18, 1776: _P.M._ Resolved, that the persons of his Excellency Sir James Wright, Baronet, and of John Mulryne Josiah Tattnall & Anthony Stokes Esqrs, be forthwith arrested & secured; and, that all non-associates be forthwith disarmed, except those who will give their Parole, assuring that…
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Burning of Norfolk
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 2. –Yesterday, at about quarter after three o’clock, the British fleet lying off Norfolk, Virginia, commenced a cannonade against that town, from upwards of one hundred pieces of cannon, and continued till nearly ten o’clock at night, without…
Few American Casualties
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. It is wonderful how happily the Americans have been preserved. From Bunker’s Hill fight to the present day, the regulars have fired, on the Cambridge side, about a thousand balls, bombs, and carcases; and, on the Roxbury side, better…
Common Sense
Introduction Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more…
Battle of the Great Bridge
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. December 9. –This morning, after reveille beating, two or three great guns and some muskets were discharged from the enemy’s fort near Great Bridge, 1 which, as it was not an unusual thing, was little regarded by Colonel Woodford.…