From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 23. –Yesterday morning, before daybreak, a body of rebels, under the command of Messrs Sullivan, Smallwood} and De Bourg, landed in two divisions upon the west end of Staten Island. By the acknowledgment of some of their officers,…
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The Danbury Expedition
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 12. –The rebels have industriously reported, and even had the assurance to publish in some of their newspapers, that the King’s troops employed in destroying the magazine at Danbury, “behaved with great barbarity, wantonly and cruelly murdering the…
Hugh Gaine’s Facts and Criticisms
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The late proclamation, issued by Sir William Howe, we hear, has been read to the several corps in the rebel army, by their respective leaders, who strove to show them that the design of it was to lead them…
Skirmish at Boundbrook
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 14. –Day before yesterday, General Lord Cornwallis, Generals Grant and Matthews, with the first battalion of grenadiers, one battalion of light infantry, a detachment of the guards, the light horse, two battalions of Hessians, and the Yagers, commanded…
Attack on Peekskill, N. Y. – British account of the Attack on Peekskill
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 27. –The American post at Peekskill, New York, since the removal of the militia of the Eastern States, has been in a manner in a defenceless situation, there being only part of two regiments stationed there, under the…