Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents, Volumen1C. Scribner, 1860 "The materials of these volumes are taken from Whig and Tory newspapers, published during the American Revolution, private diaries, and other contemporaneous writings [and are arranged chronologically]." -- Preface. |
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American April arms army arrived artillery attack August battalion battery battle boats body Boston brave Britain British Burgoyne cannon Captain Charlestown Colonel colonies command committee conduct Connecticut Constitutional Gazette Continental Congress declared enemy enemy's England field-pieces fire force Fort Mifflin Freeman's Journal friends Gage gentlemen Governor guard guns Hessians Hill Holt's Journal honor hundred immediately Independence inhabitants Jersey John July June killed King land late letter liberty Long Island Lord Lord Dunmore Majesty's man-of-war marched Massachusetts miles militia morning night North o'clock obliged October October 29 officers Packet party Pennsylvania Evening Post Pennsylvania Journal persons Philadelphia prisoners proclamation provincials Putnam rebels received regiment regulars retreat returned river Rivington's Gazetteer says sent ships shot soldiers soon spirit Staten Island Sullivan's Island taken thousand tion took Tories town Tryon Upcott Virginia Gazette Washington whole wounded York Gazette
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Página 265 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Página 447 - Resolved, That the Flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Página 69 - Act to restrain the trade and commerce of the provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, and colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Providence Plantation, in North America, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Islands in the West Indies; and to prohibit such provinces and colonies from carrying on any fishery on the banks of Newfoundland, and other places therein mentioned, under certain conditions and limitations.
Página 264 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners ; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He...
Página 263 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the state remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 118 - Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
Página 405 - Blessed are the Dead which die in the Lord ; for they rest from their Labours, and their Works do follow them.
Página 160 - And I do hereby further declare all indented servants, negroes, or others, (appertaining to rebels,) free, that are able and willing to bear arms, they joining his Majesty's troops, as soon as may be, for the more speedily reducing this Colony to a proper sense of their duty to his Majesty's crown and dignity.
Página 229 - From shopkeepers, tradesmen, and • attorneys, they are become statesmen and legislators, and are employed in contriving a new form of government for an extensive empire, which, they flatter themselves, will become, and which, indeed, seems very likely to become, one of the greatest and most formidable that ever was in the world.
Página 313 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? PORTIUS.