Jefferson to His Excellency Gen Washington
Richmond, January 10, 1781. Sir, It may seem odd, considering the important events which have taken place in this State within the course of ten days, that I should not have transmitted an account of...
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From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 31.—This morning, his Majesty’s ship Iris arrived at New York from the Chesapeake, with the...
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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Captain Sears and John Case
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. January 3. –This morning, Mr. John Case, an old man of near sixty years of age, from Long Island, was...
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