From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 7.—Yesterday being the anniversary of forming the alliance between France and the United States, the honorable the Congress at Philadelphia gave a public entertainment to his Excellency the Minister Plenipotentiary of his Most Christian Majesty, at which the…
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British Descent into New Jersey
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 10.—Last Tuesday, about three o’clock in the morning, a party of the new levies from Staten Island went into Woodbridge, New Jersey, and marched up into the town, undiscovered, to the house of Charles Jackson, in which there…
American Prisoners at New York. – Nelson’s Prison Ship
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 4.—It is painful to repeat the indubitable accounts we are continually receiving, of the cruel and inhuman treatment of the subjects of these States from the Britons in New York and other places. They who hear our countrymen,…
Monmouth County Tories
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 19.—The Tory freebooters, who have their haunts and caves in the pines, and have been for some time past a terror to the inhabitants of Monmouth county, in the Jerseys, have, during the course of the present week,…
British Abandon Georgia
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 27.—The British have as suddenly abandoned the State of Georgia as they invaded it, and retired into East Florida. Their hasty retreat was occasioned by an express sent to Colonel Prevost, advising him of a naval and land…