A military dictionary : $b or, Explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops, infantry, artillery, and cavalry: the principles of fortification, and all the modern improvements in the science of tactics: comprising the pocket gunner, or little bombardier, the military regulations of the United States: the weights, measures, and monies of all nations: the technical terms and phrases of the art of war in the French language: particularly adapted to the use of the Duane, William
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A military dictionary : $b or, Explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops, infantry, artillery, and cavalry: the principles of fortification, and all the modern improvements in the science of tactics: comprising the pocket gunner, or little bombardier, the military regulations of the United States: the weights, measures, and monies of all nations: the technical terms and phrases of the art of war in the French language: particularly adapted to the use of the
Duane, William
English language -- Terms and phrases; Military art and science -- Dictionaries
Chamblee taken by Montgomery, 124 barrels gun-powder, 6564
musket cartridges, 150 stand French made arms, 3 mortars, 61
shells, 83 stand English arms; and other valuable military and
naval stores, 3 Nov.
Montreal taken by the Americans, Nov. 12.
St. John’s taken by Montgomery, 17 brass ordnance, 2 eight inch
howitzers, 22 iron ordnance, shot, shells, powder, 800 stand
small arms, and naval stores, 13 Nov.
Storm of Quebec, Montgomery falls, Arnold wounded, the Americans
obliged to retreat, but encamp on the Plains of Abraham, 31 Dec.
Great Bridge in Virginia, battle of, in which the British were
defeated, Dec.
1776. Norfolk, in Virginia, burnt by order of Lord Dunmore the British
governor, and great damage sustained, Jan. 1.
Chamblee fort retaken by the British, Jan 18.
Highlanders, and regulators of N. Carolina, defeated with great
loss near Moore’s Creek bridge, by Gen. Moore, Feb. 27.
Dorchester Point fortified in the night, so as to render Boston
no longer tenable by the British, March 4.
Boston evacuated precipitately, the British leaving behind their
arms, military stores and provisions; sir Archibald Campbell,
with 1700 men, enters the harbor, and are made prisoners by
general Washington, 18 March.
Crown Point re-taken by the British.
British attack on the Cedars, Arnold capitulates; Americans
treated with barbarity; congress annuls the capitulation in
consequence, 26 May.
British tories defeated at Moore’s creek, in North Carolina, by
colonel Caswell, and the tory leader Macleod killed.
Portsmouth, Virginia, destroyed by the British, June 1.
General sir H. Clinton attacks Sullivan’s island, in concert
with Sir P. Parker, and is defeated by general Lee, 15 June.
Montreal retaken by the British, June 15.
Charleston, S. C. attacked by a squadron of ships under Sir
Peter Parker, and a body of troops under Generals Clinton and
Cornwallis, who were defeated with great slaughter, June 25.
Battle of Long Island, or Flat bush; the American lines attacked
by sir William Howe, with 20,000 men, and the American army
suffers great loss from an injudicious disposition of the
forces; the retreat however was conducted with admirable skill,
in thirteen hours 9000 men with artillery, and all their
equipage, crossed an arm of the sea a mile wide, in the face of
a superior and victorious army. In this action the Americans had
2000 men killed and wounded, and 1000 taken prisoners. 26 Aug.
Fort on Sullivan’s Island, unsuccessfully attacked by the
British, June 28.
New-York surrendered to the British forces, Sept. 15.
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