From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 4.—Among the many circumstances that will emblazon the history of the present rebellion in America, we think the following, with some others no less true, will serve to show the generous and liberal principles upon which the present…
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Hovedon’s Excursion
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Yesterday evening, about eight o’clock, Captain Hoveden, with a party of twenty-four dragoons, and Captain Thomas, with fourteen foot, left Philadelphia, and passed into the county of Bucks, and, at the fulling mill of Mr. Jenks, surprised and took…
Attempt to Surprise Captain lee
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 21.—Captain Lee,1 who has for some time past been posted at Valley Forge with his troops, has added another cubit to his fame. General Howe, longing to rob the Americans of this gallant young officer, whose attention in…
Furgler the Hermit
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 20.—Yesterday, died, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, Francis Furgler, the hermit, who existed alone twenty-five years, in a thick wood about four miles from Burlington, in New Jersey, through all the inclemencies of the season, without…
Queen’s Birthday celebrated in New York
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Yesterday, being the anniversary of the birth of her royal Majesty, the queen, the same was celebrated with great rejoicing in New York. A correspondent in Rivington’s Gazette, gives the following account of the evening’s entertainment: “As the loyalty…