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…
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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…
The American Expedition
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Our political wrongheads, to show themselves frantic, Would extend the excise laws beyond th’ Atlantic; Those they sent were oppos’d with American rage, For a general excise is a General Gage. But though gaging did plainly appear their intentions,…
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…
Hanovarian Mercenaries
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The following is said to be the plan which will be put in execution for reducing America: –Ten thousand Hanoverians are to be taken into British pay, the expenses to be defrayed out of duties to be laid by…