From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. [Paragraphs added for readability.] The chief-justice of Georgia, in a letter to his wife, dated November ninth, gives the following particular account of the siege of Savannah: Soon after my arrival, I made application to the barrack-master to be…
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Clinton’s Negro Proclamation
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 30.—That wretched tool of a brutish tyrant, Sir Harry Clinton, in a proclamation, dated this day, has declared, “That all Negroes taken in arms, or upon any military duty, shall be purchased, and the money paid to the…
Major Bearmore
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 8.—Last night Colonel Armand, with one hundred infantry and about thirty horse, marched down as far as William’s, within four miles of King’s Bridge, near New York, where he posted his infantry to cover his retreat, and with…
Proclamation Appointing a Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer
Whereas the Honourable the General Congress, impressed with a grateful sense of the goodness of Almighty God, in blessing the greater part of this extensive continent with plentiful harvests, crowning our arms with repeated successes, conducting us hitherto safely through the perils with which we have been encompassed and manifesting in multiplied instances his divine…
Tories Abandon Newport for New York
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. An officer in Colonel Jackson’s regiment, In writing of this event, says:—”At last the heroic plunderers of the amiable prince of Great Britain have left one of their most important posts in America, and joined their brave associates in…