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…
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Thomas Jefferson to John Randolph
Philadelphia, November 29, 1775. Dear Sir, I am to give you the melancholy intelligence of the death of our most worthy Speaker, which happened here on the 22nd of the last month. He was struck with an apoplexy, and expired within five hours. I have it in my power to acquaint you that the success…
Ethan Allen
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 1. –Colonel Allen’s misfortune happened by reason of his not being joined by four hundred men, which, undoubtedly, would have enabled him to have withstood the party that attacked him, they being only three hundred strong. Colonel Allen…
Lechmere’s Point
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 10. –Yesterday a party of regulars from Boston, amounting to four or five hundred men, embarked in a number of barges from Charlestown Point, about one o’clock, p. m., when the tide was at a high flood, and…
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,…