From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Thirteen is a number peculiarly belonging to the rebels. A party of naval prisoners lately returned from Jersey, say, that the rations among the rebels, are thirteen dried clams per day; that the titular Lord Stirling takes thirteen glasses…
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Address to General Clinton
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 4.—A writer in the New York Packet of this date, offers the following to Sir Henry Clinton:— “Although your military track in America is marked with a variety of misfortunes, yet is it no less worthy of panegyric…
General Robertson and the Cook
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Colonel Delancey told a good story last night at Panton’s, of General Robertson and the commander-in-chief’s cook. It is well known that the general is almost too fond of the table, and he especially feels his failing at this…
Reasons for the Defeat at Savannah
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The following are some of the reasons that have been assigned why the assault on Savannah did not succeed, viz.: First. The enemy had a much more numerous garrison than had been represented, being said to consist of about…
Lord Cavendish – Edmund Burke
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. December 1.—Notwithstanding the flattering accounts of the British affairs published in some of the late New York papers, the wise men of the British Parliament draw a most melancholy picture of the calamitous circumstances of this and of their…