From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. July 26.—Lord Cornwallis has returned over James, River to Portsmouth, Virginia, having detached all his cavalry to Carolina. Most disgracefully has he finished a plundering excursion into the heart of Virginia. It is now clear that all ideas of…
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Anecdote of Arnold
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. During Benedict Arnold’s military speculations in Virginia, he took an American captain prisoner. After some general conversation with the captain, he asked him what he thought the Americans would do with him if they caught him? The captain at…
Masons Celebration at New York
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 26.—Yesterday being the anniversary festival of St. John the Baptist, was celebrated by the worshipful master and brethren of Lodge number 210, Ancient York Masons, in the city of New York in the following order, viz.: They repaired…
An Irish view of Arnold
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 26.—A correspondent in Dublin, Ireland, says: —Various conjectures have been hazarded, concerning the birth and parentage of the celebrated Mr. Arnold, whose dereliction of the American cause has been magnified in its utter ruin. Risum teneatis! Some have…
Strictures on the inertness of the Americans
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 28.—”Cassius,” in the Pennsylvania Packet of today, makes the following strictures upon the present state of affairs in America:— Si nolis sanus, curres hydropicus. Friends and Countrymen:—We are now entered into the sixth year of the war, and…