From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 8. –This day, a few of the common soldiers of the third and fifth Pennsylvania battalions, gave rise to a little skirmish, which, though trifling in itself, we cannot help relating it, as it seems to point out…
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Action at White Plains
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Last Monday we1 received intelligence that the enemy, with their whole body, were advancing towards us. The army were immediately alarmed, and part of General Wadsworth’s brigade, with some other regiments under the command of General Spencer, consisting in…
Battle on the Hudson River
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 20. –Last Friday two fire-ships, commanded by Captains Fosdyke and Thomas, gentlemen volunteers of rank in the army of the United States, proceeded up the North River with intent to give a suitable warming to those piratical gentry…
If You Fall, It May Be Like Men
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. On the late alarm at Elizabethtown, when an immediate attack of the regulars was expected,1 and every man, capable of bearing arms, was summoned to defend it, there were three or four young men (brothers) going out from one…
Traitor Executed
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 28. –This forenoon, was executed in a field between the Colonels M’Dougall and Huntington’s camp, near the Bowry-lane, New York, in the presence of near twenty thousand spectators, a soldier belonging to his Excellency General Washington’s guards, for…