From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. December 30.—Early yesterday morning the British, under the cover of several armed vessels, landed at Brewton’s plantation, about a mile from Savannah. The Continental troops were drawn up on an eminence about half a mile from the town, near…
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American Prisoners at New York. – Nelson’s Prison Ship
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 4.—It is painful to repeat the indubitable accounts we are continually receiving, of the cruel and inhuman treatment of the subjects of these States from the Britons in New York and other places. They who hear our countrymen,…
Monmouth County Tories
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 19.—The Tory freebooters, who have their haunts and caves in the pines, and have been for some time past a terror to the inhabitants of Monmouth county, in the Jerseys, have, during the course of the present week,…
British Capture of Savannah
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. A correspondent in Philadelphia, gives the following account of this affair:—”Scarcely had the enemy retired from the back parts of Georgia, when a fleet and armament entered Savannah River, and on the 29th of December, about three thousand men…
British Abandon Georgia
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 27.—The British have as suddenly abandoned the State of Georgia as they invaded it, and retired into East Florida. Their hasty retreat was occasioned by an express sent to Colonel Prevost, advising him of a naval and land…