Heath's Memoirs of the American War: Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1798 |
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American army APPENDIX arms arrived artillery attack boats Boston Brig brigade British army British fleet Burgoyne burnt Cambridge camp cannon cannonade Capt Charleston Colonel Commander in Chief Congress Connecticut Constitution Island Continental Convention corps Count D'Estaing Creek deserters detachment discharged division Dobb's Ferry embarkation encamped enemy enemy's field-pieces fire forage Fort Washington frigate garrison General's ground guard guns harbour HEAD-QUARTERS HEATH Hessian Hill honour Hook horse immediately Intelligence was received Jerseys killed and wounded Kingsbridge landed learnt letter Lieut light-infantry Long Island loss main army mand marched Massachusetts militia morning moved neck night o'clock officers ordered parole party passed Peekskill provisions quarters redoubt regiment retreat returned Rhode Island river Roxbury sail sent sentinels ships shot side Sir Henry Clinton soldiers Spuyten Duyvil Creek taken prisoners tion took town transports vessels Washington West Point whole York York Island
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Page 18 - An Act for the impartial administration of justice, in the cases of persons questioned for any act done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England...
Page 404 - With a heart full of love and gratitude I now take leave of you; I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Page 55 - The troops were ordered to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's notice ; but as yet all was uncertainty as to the precise direction of Napoleon's principal attack.
Page 396 - These enclosures will explain the distresses, which resulted from the measures now carrying into execution, in consequence of the resolution of the 26th of May ; but the sensibility occasioned by a parting scene under such peculiar circumstances will not admit of description.
Page 394 - I then told them no Payment could be made to the Army but by Means of a Paper Anticipation and unless our Expenditures were immediately and considerably reduced even that could not be done. Our Expenditures have nevertheless been continued and our Revenue lessens, the States growing daily more and more remiss in their Collections.
Page 374 - Addresses," read his celebrated appeal to the officers of the army, was a one-story frame structure put up by the labor and materials furnished by the different regiments. It stood on an eminence at New Windsor, and was " handsomely finished, with a spacious hall, sufficient to contain a brigade of troops on Lord's days, for public worship, with an orchestra at one end. On the top was a cupola and a flag-staff." * It was also called the " Temple" and the " Public Building," and, although erected...
Page 394 - States growing daily more and more remiss in their collections. The consequence is, that I cannot make payment in the manner first intended. The notes issued for this purpose would have been payable at two, four, and six months from the date, but at present they will be at six months, and even that will soon become impracticable, unless our expenses be immediately curtailed. "I shall cause such notes to be issued for three months' pay to the army ; and I must entreat, Sir, that every influence be...
Page 61 - In spite of these losses the spirit of the troops, which had been much depressed by the recent disasters, were greatly cheered. A lull of several weeks followed, during which the Americans suffered greatly from sickness. They were without proper hospital accommodations, " and they lay about in almost every barn, stable, shed, and even under the fences and bushes.
Page 160 - Burgoyne, and the troops under his command, be suspended till a distinct and explicit ratification of the Convention of Saratoga shall be properly notified by the court of Great Britain to Compress.
Page 393 - I beg they will be persuaded that as no man can possibly be better acquainted than I am with the past merits and services of the army, so no one can possibly be more strongly impressed with their present ineligible situation, feel a keener sensibility at their distresses, or more ardently desire to alleviate or remove them.