From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The Tories, reduced to their last shift for agreeable news to strengthen the drooping spirits of their fellows, are now resorting to their imaginations. The following is their last flight of fancy: Beelzebub R.—Whereas it is necessary to the…
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Gaine’s News
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 4.—Among the many circumstances that will emblazon the history of the present rebellion in America, we think the following, with some others no less true, will serve to show the generous and liberal principles upon which the present…
Annotations on the King’s Speech
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 11.—A writer in the New Jersey Gazette of this date, gives the following annotations upon “his most gracious Majesty of most gracious Great Britain’s most gracious speech:”1 “It is a great satisfaction to me that I can have…
Attempt to Surprise Captain lee
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 21.—Captain Lee,1 who has for some time past been posted at Valley Forge with his troops, has added another cubit to his fame. General Howe, longing to rob the Americans of this gallant young officer, whose attention in…
Furgler the Hermit
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 20.—Yesterday, died, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, Francis Furgler, the hermit, who existed alone twenty-five years, in a thick wood about four miles from Burlington, in New Jersey, through all the inclemencies of the season, without…