Richmond, March 21, 1781. Sir, The enclosed letter will inform you of the arrival of a British fleet in Chesapeake bay. The extreme negligence of our stationed expresses is no doubt the cause why, as yet, no authentic account has reached us of a general action, which happened on the 15th instant, about a mile…
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An English view of Andre’s Execution – Jumonville
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 14.—A writer in the London Public Advertiser,1 gives the following reflections on the catastrophe of Major Andre:— As nothing that concerns humanity can ever be imagined foreign to a British breast, any prefatory apology for a discussion of…
Mud Ammunition
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. In the late encounter between Captain Hubbel and the Jonathans of Connecticut, at Lloyd’s Neck, the latter used balls of baked mud filled with bits of iron, and pieces of rusty spikes, instead of bullets. This shows the state…
Hubbell at Lloyd’s Neck
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 10.—Captain Hubbel, of the Associated Loyalists, has had another encounter with the pious Presbyterians at Lloyd’s Neck.1 This spirited officer, with his little band of true Englishmen, has made three attempts to effect the business pointed out to…
Cornwallis’s Cruelty
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. A writer in England says:—”A Scotch officer, lately arrived from America, hath assured some particular friends, that on the day of the action near Camden, Lord Cornwallis’s orders to the army were: ‘To take no prisoners in the field…