From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 14. –Day before yesterday, General Lord Cornwallis, Generals Grant and Matthews, with the first battalion of grenadiers, one battalion of light infantry, a detachment of the guards, the light horse, two battalions of Hessians, and the Yagers, commanded…
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Attack on Peekskill, N. Y. – British account of the Attack on Peekskill
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 27. –The American post at Peekskill, New York, since the removal of the militia of the Eastern States, has been in a manner in a defenceless situation, there being only part of two regiments stationed there, under the…
Fight at Ward’s House
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 17. –Last night, a detachment of the Queen’s rangers, and New York companies, with twenty of the Hessian troops, and a subaltern, under the command of Captains John Branden and Archibald Campbell, were ordered out from New York…
Behman’s Seven
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 15. –I am no prophet, nor the son of a prophet, yet I believe in the prophecies of the Old and New Testaments, and also in some other prophecies; nor can I forbear thinking there is something prophetic…
Samuel Auchmuty
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. March 6. –Day before yesterday, departed this life, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, the Reverend Samuel Auchmuty, D. D., Rector of Trinity Church in New York, a gentleman greatly beloved and respected. He was born at Boston,…