From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The enemy were so beaten that we should have disputed the victory could we have saved our artillery, but the general thought it was a necessary sacrifice. The spirits of the soldiery would have been affected if the cannon…
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Battle of Guilford – General Greene’s Account
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 16.—Yesterday morning an engagement was brought on near Guilford Court House, between a small part of the American regulars, joined by a very considerable body of militia, and most of General Cornwallis’s army.1 Early in the morning, the…
The Ladies of Charleston
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The ladies of Charleston, since the capture of that place, have uniformly refused to associate with the British officers, or to attend any of their assemblies, or places of public amusement; and, having been reduced to the necessity of…
The French and British Fleets meet off Virginia
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 28.—Chevalier d’Astouches, with the French fleet, lately returned to Rhode Island from an unsuccessful encounter with the British squadron in the Chesapeake. The subjoined relation of his recent operations, is given by a writer at Newport:— “The gale…
An English view of Andre’s Execution – Jumonville
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 14.—A writer in the London Public Advertiser,1 gives the following reflections on the catastrophe of Major Andre:— As nothing that concerns humanity can ever be imagined foreign to a British breast, any prefatory apology for a discussion of…