Anecdote of La Fayette
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The theatre being open last evening, the Marquis de La Fayette being in company with his Excellency the...
View ArticleCornwallis’ Report of the Siege of Yorktown
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 20.—This morning, Cornwallis, in a letter to Sir Henry Clinton, gives the following account of the...
View ArticleKing’s Mountain
Our fortress is the good greenwood, Our tent the cypress tree; We know the forest round us As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent...
View ArticleAddition, Subtraction, and Multiplication
To Catharine Ray Dear Katy Philadelphia Oct. 16. 1755 Your Favour of the 28th of June came to hand but the 28th of September, just 3 Months after it was written. I had, two Weeks before, wrote you a...
View ArticleMeeting at New York
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 16. –This morning, at ten o’clock, the members of his Majesty’s council, the judges, and all the...
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