From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 23.—This evening Major Tallmadge1 returned to Fairfield, in Connecticut, from a very spirited and successful enterprise against Fort St. George on Long Island; having destroyed the fort and such forage and supplies as could not be carried away…
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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…