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Lord Rawdon’s Proclamation (in verse)

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II.  Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859.   To all our subjects true and loyal, We greeting send this promise royal, Tho’ signed by Rawdon and Balfour, They’re George’s sentiments, we’re sure. And therefore if you can believe it, As such we doubt not you’ll receive…

Lord Rawdon’s Proclamation

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II.  Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. May 21.—This day, the redoubtable Rawdon1 and his not to be trusted squire Balfour,2 now in very uncomfortable quarters at Monk’s Corner, have issued a characteristic proclamation, in which they say:—”Although attention to the general security of the province…

A True Woman

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II.  Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. February 8.—Captain S——, lately returned from America to London with an express for government, relates, among many other affecting and uncommon incidents, among the royalists, as well as in the American army, the following narrative of tenderness, evincing to…

Discontent among the Hessians

From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II.  Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. April 30—The last and most authentic advices from Charleston, in South Carolina, are, that the greatest discontents have for some time past prevailed among the foreign mercenaries employed in the garrison of that place; jealousies having arisen from their…