From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 8.—By the latest intelligence from Schenectady, in New York, we are informed that Sir John Johnson, (who styles himself lieutenant-colonel commanding the King’s Royal Yorkers, in the paroles given to some of the prisoners,) on Lord’s day evening,…
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The Dark Day
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 20.—Yesterday we were visited by a most unusual and uncomfortable phenomenon. As early as ten o’clock in the morning, a thick darkness came over the face of the country, so that it was impossible to move about the…
The Court of England
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 13.—A writer in the London Evening Post of this day, says:—”If freedom of speech, and the most vigorous opposition to ministers, were ever necessary in a free country, they are certainly at this awful period; a period which…
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…
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…