From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 30. –Last Friday, the twenty-fifth instant, twenty-six sail of British ships appeared off Norwalk Islands, standing in for Cedar Point, where they anchored at four o’clock p. m., and soon began landing troops. By ten o’clock they had…
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Washington Forbids Gaming
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The American republicans, like the rebels of all ages, from their justice, peaceloving, and mercy, pretend to have the especial favors of God, and none of the devil’s, on their side, and for this reason we rarely see a…
Young Woman in Arms
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 20. –This morning, a young woman passing an evacuated house in Woodbridge, New Jersey, saw through the window a drunken Hessian soldier, who had straggled from his party. There being no men within less than a mile of…
Report on the Ravages of the British
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 18. –The committee appointed by Congress some time ago to inquire into the conduct of the British troops in their different marches through New York and New Jersey, have to-day reported: –That in every place where the enemy…
Hugh Gaine’s Facts and Criticisms
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The late proclamation, issued by Sir William Howe, we hear, has been read to the several corps in the rebel army, by their respective leaders, who strove to show them that the design of it was to lead them…