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Norfolk Abandoned

February 28, 1776April 25, 2013Frank Moore1776-01-01 Norfolk, Constitutional Gazette, Revolutionary America

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 6. –The Virginia forces, under Colonel Howe, abandoned Norfolk this morning, after removing the poor inhabitants, with such effects as they could carry along with them, and demolishing the intrenchments, which Lord Dunmore threw up a little before…

Burning of Norfolk

January 16, 1776April 25, 2013Frank Moore1776-01-01 Norfolk, New York Packet, Pennsylvania Evening Post, Revolutionary America

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…

To the Virginians

January 5, 1776April 25, 2013Frank Moore1776-01-01 Norfolk, Revolutionary America, Virginia Gazette

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. We hope our countrymen will not be at all dispirited at the destruction of Norfolk, but rather rejoice that half the mischief our enemies can do us is done already. They have destroyed one of the first towns in…