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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 256 0 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 56 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 40 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 30 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 16 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 14 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 14 0 Browse Search
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739. 10 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 10 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 42: (search)
but caprices, implying momentary treachery rather than a well considered system. His secret was kept in America, but the statement found its way through the British ministry to Vergennes, Chap. XLII.} 1775. July. who pronounced it an absurdity worthy only of contempt. All the while skirmishes continued. A party of Americans on the eighth of July drove in the British advance guard nearest Roxbury, and took several muskets. On the evening of the tenth, three hundred volunteers swept Long Island, in Boston harbor, of more than seventy sheep and fifteen head of cattle, and carried off sixteen prisoners. Two days later, just after the arrival of six crowded transports, Greaton, with one hundred and thirty six men, went again to the same island, and burnt the hay which was stacked there for the British cavalry. After a few days more, companies at Weymouth and Hingham reaped and brought off the ripe grain from Nantasket. On the fifteenth of July, the army of Cambridge heard Langd
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 58: (search)
and Hudson River below the Highlands; neither Staten Island nor Long Island could prevent the landing of British troops; the possession of LLong Island would give the command of Manhattan Island, which had not as yet accumulated materials for defence. In Queen's county, where a lested that body to undertake the disarming of the disaffected on Long Island. All their suggestions were approved, and made general in theirhen directed, each with five or six hundred minute men, to enter Long Island, and disarm every man in Queen's county who voted against sendinfaced Broadway was torn down; Lee and Lord Stirling, crossing to Long Island, marked out the ground for an intrenched camp, extending from thpacious enough to hold four thousand men; the connection between Long Island and New York was secured by a battery of forty guns at the foot sweeping order, to secure the whole body of professed tories on Long Island. The arbitrary orders were resented by all the New York delegat
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 66: (search)
ment of the fleet, than Chap. LXVI.} 1776. June. by landing on Long Island, which was represented to communicate with Sullivan's Island at on began his disembarkation, landing four or five hundred men on Long Island. It was therefore evident that the first attack was to be made ting with Cornwallis, he completed the landing of all his men on Long Island, a naked sand, where nothing grew except a few bushes, that harbd. Seeing the enemy's boats already in motion on the beach of Long Island, and the men-of-war loosing their topsails, Moultrie hurried bacpport; not knowing what else to do, he directed the batteries on Long Island to open a cannonade; and several shells were thrown into Thomson much as once attempted to land. The detachment had hardly left Long Island before it was ordered to disembark, for it was seen that the lannations. Nothing remained for the army but to quit the sands of Long Island, yet three weeks more passed away before they embarked in transp