From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. December 12. –Since last Sunday, we have all been at the laboring oar, from the generals to the privates. Early in that day we heard that Cornwallis was coming in three different ways.1 Knowing our weak situation, he made…
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Fort Washington
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 18. –By a person lately from the American camp, a gentleman of undoubted veracity, who was prisoner and enlarged by General Howe, we are informed that the enemy lost before the lines of Fort Washington, seventeen hundred killed…
Fort Washington Taken
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 16. –About two o’clock this afternoon a large body of British troops from New York, with a body of Hessians from King’s Bridge, made an attack upon the American lines at that place. At the same time, a…
Glover’s Skirmish in Eastchester
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 23. –Friday morning last, we were alarmed by the drums beating to arms, and the enemy landed at Rodman’s Point with their whole force. The brigade under the command of Colonel Glover, consisting of about seven hundred men,…
Behold a Coward
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 22. –Behold A Coward!–The public is desired to take notice, that Daniel Pittee, ensign in Captain Timothy Stow’s company, Colonel Wheelock’s regiment, applied at head-quarters for a discharge, upon hearing the enemy were likely to attack our lines.…