From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 29. –This morning President Hancock took leave of the Congress in the following speech: –“Gentlemen, Friday last completed two years and five months since you did me the honor of electing me to fill this chair. As I…
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Captain Emmerick
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. September 25. –To-day, as a party of Captain Emmerick’s new corps of chasseurs were bathing near Kingsbridge, in New York, he suddenly beat to arms, when they, with the greatest spirit imaginable, flew to their firelocks, and appeared naked,…
Cruel Treatment of Negroes
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The two following advertisements lately appeared, one in the Carolina, and the other in the Virginia newspaper, which show the humanity and great consistency of conduct of the sons of freedom, as the Americans are pleased, in several of…
Burning of Kingston
October 14. –Yesterday, General Vaughan, having under his command a large body of British, who have committed various acts of vandalism, in their passage up the North River, landed a number of men at Esopus, marched up to the defenceless town of Kingston, about two miles from the river, and immediately set it on fire.…
General Burgoyne Surrenders
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 17. –General Burgoyne having been defeated in a second trial on the field at Stillwater,1 and finding himself encircled without the least chance of escape, to-day surrendered to the Americans. General Gates, in a letter to his wife,…