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We are going to sail in half an hour which prevents me from saying a thousand things. I shou'd imagine the commencement of this campaign will be bloody active as our G[enera]l is spurred on by a jealous notion that Carleton will gain the laurels. One ship of the 42nd Highlanders are arrived. We hope to meet the rest in the offing, with Lord Howe; if we arenot so fortunate our operations will be...
Date: 10 June 1776
Volume: Volume 5
We left Halifax on the 10th June, and after a very tedious passage arrived at Sandy Hook on the 29th June.
Preparations were immediately made for landing on Long Island and taking possession of a Hill which the enemy had strongly fortified ー with judgement, as it commanded Brooklyn's Ferry and the town of New York.
As we knew there were a number of the Rebel Troops upon this Island, and that in...
Date: 9 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
On the 16th of this month we marched from Newtown Camp, and the Corps de Reserve, consisting of three Battalions of Lt. Infantry, the German Jagers, my Battalion of Highland Grenadiers, and 42nd and 32nd Regts., embarked on board flat-bottomed boats in Newtown Creek, from whence we proceeded on our way to land upon New York island. A 50 gun ship and two Frigates were drawn up to cover the landing...
Date: 26 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Upon the 11th Oct. we embarked on board the flat-bottomed boats at 7 ocl. in the evening, and at about daybreak the next morning we proceeded through Hell-Gate (a place so called from a considerable chute which renders the passage very dangerous) to Throg's neck, where we landed without opposition.
The rebels, observing our motion, destroyed a bridge and causeway which joined this neck to part of...
Date: 29 November 1776
Volume: Volume 7
This is so critical a juncture that tho' I am no Politician, yet I can not help sending you my opinion of the present state of affairs in this Country; we have remitted home such extravagant accounts of very trifling advantages and have gloss'd over with such art our errors, that I hope our Leaders wrote more for the Eye of the Publick than for the information of the Minister. Unless these...
Date: 1 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
We remain here pretty much in the same state, waiting with anxiety for the Spring. The water is entirely froze over, except immediately in the Harbour, and able to bear an army, which obliges us to be particularly cautious with respect to the enemy's movements.
Their Navy seems to triumph over ours; they frequently take our store ships with impunity, but we have great expectations of our new...
Date: 29 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I was not entirely wrong in my conjecture Gen. Howe intended going to the South. We sailed from Sandy Hook on the 23rd July and arrived at the Delaware the 30th, stood up that river for some hours, when, as if it were a feint to perplex Washington, we put back to sea the middle of the same night, and on Friday got between Capes Henry and Charles (two Capes that form the entrance of Chesapeake Bay...
Date: 21 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9