From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. After an attentive perusal of Lord Cornwallis’s letter to Sir Henry Clinton, containing an account of the reduction of his post and army in Virginia, we think the following observations are equally just and natural:— I. That his lordship…
All posts in Revolutionary America
Affiliate Link
 |
Affairs in Charleston, S. C. – Patriotic Women
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 20.—A writer in the British army at Charleston, South Carolina, in a letter to his friend in London, says:— “The retrograde progress of our arms in this country, you have seen in your newspapers, if they dare tell…
Colonel Alexander Scammel
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Scammel is dead:—When the good man, the just, the generous, and the brave, and one who has from a sense of duty, founded in the reflection of a virtuous and enlightened mind, and hi defence of his country’s freedom,…
Cornwallis’ Report of the Siege of Yorktown
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 20.—This morning, Cornwallis, in a letter to Sir Henry Clinton, gives the following account of the siege, which terminated yesterday in his surrender to the allied forces of France and America:—”I never saw Yorktown in any favorable light,…
Address to Cornwallis
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 30.—An American soldier, in the Maryland Gazette, thus addresses the unfortunate Cornwallis:— “My Lord:—A general who possesses that dignity of soul, which exalts the conqueror above the insolence of a triumph, and elevates the vanquished above meanness and…