From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. December 6.—Advices from the country are, that General Washington and Mr. Mead, his aide-de-camp, and his adjutant-general, were near being drowned last Saturday week [November 27?] by the overturning of a whale boat at a place called Sandy Point,…
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The Story of Mrs. Ross
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Last week died, at Hammersmith, in England, Mrs. Ross, celebrated for her beauty and constancy. Having met with opposition in her engagement with Captain Charles Ross, she followed him, in men’s clothes, to America, where, after such a research…
Tryon’s Raid on Cow Pasture
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The sun being nearly set before the 64th, the Landgrave’s regiment, and the Jagers were in the boats, it was near nine o’clock in the evening [July 11] when the troops landed at the Cow Pasture, a peninsula on…
Operations in the South – British Account
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 29.—A correspondent in Charleston, South Carolina, gives the following account of the late movements of the two armies at the southward:—”On the twenty-eighth of April, a party of the British army, under the command of Major Fraser, landed…
Guy Carleton leaves America
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. This afternoon sailed for England his Majesty’s ship Montreal, commanded by Stair Douglass, Esquire, having on board Lieutenant-General Sir Guy Carleton, Knight of the Bath, and late Governor of Canada, over which he has presided since the 27th of…