Thomas Jefferson to General Horatio Gates
Richmond, February 17, 1781. Dear General, The situation of affairs here and in Carolina is such as must shortly turn up important events, one way or the other. By letter from General Greene, dated...
View ArticleAn Irish view of Arnold
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. November 26.—A correspondent in Dublin, Ireland, says: —Various conjectures have been hazarded, concerning...
View ArticleArnold; or, A Question Answered
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Our troops by Arnold thoroughly were bang’d, And poor St. Andre was by Arnold hang’d; To George a rebel,...
View ArticleAnecdote of Arnold
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. During Benedict Arnold’s military speculations in Virginia, he took an American captain prisoner. After...
View ArticleArnold at New London, Conn.
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. September 6.—This morning about daybreak, twenty-four sail of British shipping appeared to the westward of...
View ArticleWashington and His Comrades: Chapter X
France to the Rescue During 1778 and 1779 French effort had failed. Now France resolved to do something decisive. She never sent across the sea the eight thousand men promised to La Fayette but by the...
View ArticleWashington and His Comrades: Chapter II
Boston and Quebec Washington was not a professional soldier, though he had seen the realities of war and had moved in military society. Perhaps it was an advantage that he had not received the rigid...
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