From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. July 5. –This day, the Virginia Convention resolved, that the following sentences in the morning and evening church service shall be omitted: –“O Lord, save the king, and mercifully hear us when we call upon thee.” That the fifteenth,…
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Battle of Moore’s Creek
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. This morning, the North Carolina minute men and militia, under the command of Brigadier-General James Moore, had an engagement with the Tories, at Widow Moore’s Creek bridge. 1 At the break of day, an alarm gun was fired, immediately…
Attack on Quebec – Montgomery Killed – Arnold Wounded
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. December 31. –The Americans have made an unsuccessful attack upon the town of Quebec. General Montgomery finding his cannon too light to effect a breach, and that the enemy would not hearken to terms of capitulation, formed a design…
Affaires in Boston
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 25. –We hear that the enemy, in Boston, the evening on which our troops burnt the houses at Charlestown, were entertaining themselves at the exhibition of a play, which they called the Blockade of Boston; in the midst…
Burning of Norfolk
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 2. –Yesterday, at about quarter after three o’clock, the British fleet lying off Norfolk, Virginia, commenced a cannonade against that town, from upwards of one hundred pieces of cannon, and continued till nearly ten o’clock at night, without…