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Knowlton’s Visit to Charlestown

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 8. –This evening, Major Knowlton was despatched with a hundred men, to make an incursion into Charlestown. He crossed the mill dam, which lies between Cobble Hill and Bunker’s Hill, about nine o’clock, and immediately proceeded down the…

Arrest Warrant for Royal Governor of Georgia, James Wright

At a special meeting of the Council of Safety: Jany. 18, 1776: _P.M._ Resolved, that the persons of his Excellency Sir James Wright, Baronet, and of John Mulryne Josiah Tattnall & Anthony Stokes Esqrs, be forthwith arrested & secured; and, that all non-associates be forthwith disarmed, except those who will give their Parole, assuring that…

Burning of Norfolk

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 2. –Yesterday, at about quarter after three o’clock, the British fleet lying off Norfolk, Virginia, commenced a cannonade against that town, from upwards of one hundred pieces of cannon, and continued till nearly ten o’clock at night, without…

Few American Casualties

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. It is wonderful how happily the Americans have been preserved. From Bunker’s Hill fight to the present day, the regulars have fired, on the Cambridge side, about a thousand balls, bombs, and carcases; and, on the Roxbury side, better…

Common Sense

Introduction Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more…