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Hampton, Va, Threatened

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. After Lord Dunmore, with his troops and navy, had been for several weeks seizing the persons and property of his Majesty’s peaceable subjects in Virginia, on Wednesday night last (25th) a party from an armed tender landed near Hampton,…

Ethan Allen Taken Prisoner

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. By accounts from Canada we learn, that on the twenty-fifth of September last, Colonel Ethan Allen, prompted by ambition, had imprudently, without orders, crossed over from Longueuil with thirty of his own men and fifty Canadians, in order to…

Lord William Campbell

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Lord William Campbell, Governor of South Carolina, has fled with the utmost precipitation on board the man-of-war in the harbor; the committee of Charleston having very fortunately discovered that his excellency had employed one Cameron, an Indian commissary in…

The American Expedition

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Our political wrongheads, to show themselves frantic, Would extend the excise laws beyond th’ Atlantic; Those they sent were oppos’d with American rage, For a general excise is a General Gage. But though gaging did plainly appear their intentions,…