From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. A gentleman who travelled lately through Connecticut, informs us that he met with an old gentlewoman who told him that she had fitted out and sent five sons and eleven grandsons to Boston, when she heard of the engagement…
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American Tactics
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…
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…
Colonel Washington Elected Commander-in-Chief
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 15. — The Continental Congress elected Colonel George Washington, a delegate from Virginia, general and commander-in-chief of all the American forces.1 –It was last year reported that Sir Jeffery Amherst had said, that with five thousand English regulars he…
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,…