From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 1.—An American, now confined on board the Jersey (vulgarly called Hell) prison-ship at New York says:— “There is nothing but death or entering into the British service for me. Our ship company is reduced to a small number…
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Affairs at Yorktown, Va.
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 24.—The last division of the Portsmouth garrison arrived last evening at Yorktown, in Virginia. Gloucester Point is strongly fortified, where Colonel Dundas commands, having with him the 80th regiment, that of the Hessian Prince Hereditaire, and Colonel Simcoe’s.…
Remarks of a Carolina Planter
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 24.—In the present unsettled state of things in America, when the British are in possession of a part of the southern States, and when men’s minds are distracted between a love of property, and that attention which should…
Battle off Barnegat, New Jersey – Washington’s Army leaves White Plains
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. About three o’clock last Tuesday afternoon [August 21], a very severe action was fought between the whale boat Surprise, Captain Thompson, and her consort, both their crews consisting of twenty-six men, and two rebel whale boats belonging to Philadelphia,…
Greene’s Proclamation Concerning Col. Hayne
A Proclamation,— Whereas on the fourth day of the present month, Colonel Isaac Hayne, commanding a regiment of militia in the service of the United States, was captured by a party of British troops, and after a rigorous confinement in the provost of Charleston, most cruelly and unjustifiably condemned and executed, in open violation of…