From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 8. –Yesterday afternoon appeared in sight of Bristol harbor 1 a very formidable fleet, consisting of sixteen sail, viz.: three men-of-war, one bomb ketch, and other armed vessels, all of which, excepting the Glasgow, which ran ashore at…
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Ethan Allen Taken Prisoner
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. By accounts from Canada we learn, that on the twenty-fifth of September last, Colonel Ethan Allen, prompted by ambition, had imprudently, without orders, crossed over from Longueuil with thirty of his own men and fifty Canadians, in order to…
Lord William Campbell
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Lord William Campbell, Governor of South Carolina, has fled with the utmost precipitation on board the man-of-war in the harbor; the committee of Charleston having very fortunately discovered that his excellency had employed one Cameron, an Indian commissary in…
Molasses and Flagging
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The following droll affair lately happened at Kinderhook, New York. A young fellow, an enemy to the liberties of America, going to a quilting frolic, where a number of young women were collected, and he the only man in…
Bombardment of Stonington Harbor
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 31. –Yesterday morning a tender chased into Stonington harbor two small sloops, which had a number of people on board bound to Block Island. They had but just time to get on shore before the tender came in,…