British at Phillip’s Manor
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 13. –Yesterday the British decamped from Dobb’s ferry, and marched as far as Phillip’s manor, (five...
View ArticleSkirmish at Mount Washington
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...
View ArticleSkirmish on York Island
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 9. –Hitherto the achievements of our little army on York Island have been extremely fortunate. The...
View ArticleFort Washington Taken
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 16. –About two o’clock this afternoon a large body of British troops from New York, with a body of...
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From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 18. –By a person lately from the American camp, a gentleman of undoubted veracity, who was prisoner...
View ArticleWashington and His Comrades: Chapter IV
The Loss of New York Washington’s success at Boston had one good effect. It destroyed Tory influence in that Puritan stronghold. New England was henceforth of a temper wholly revolutionary; and New...
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