Book/Printed Material Travels through the interior parts of America, Volume 2
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Image 1 of Volume 2 TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF AMERICA IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME II 2 194 2133- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 2 of Volume 2 FIVE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE COPIES OF THIS EDITION WERE PRINTED AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS IN CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., IN SEPTEMBER 1923, OF WHICH FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE ARE TO BE SOLD. THIS...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 3 of Volume 2 TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF AMERICA BY THOMAS ANBUREY LIEUTENANT IN THE ARMY OF GENERAL BURGOYNE WITH A FOREWORD BY MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM HARDING CARTER VOLUME II LC BOSTON AND NEW YORK...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 4 of Volume 2 E 163 .A 53 1923 COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED DEC 22 '23- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 5 of Volume 2 TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF AMERICA IN A SERIES OF LETTERS BY AN OFFICER IN TWO VOLUMES T? ?uν, αν τιs ειπ?ι, ταuτα λ?γ?ιs ημιν νuν; Iνα γνωτε, καì αιδΘηδΘε αμØóτερα....- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 6 of Volume 2- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 7 of Volume 2 TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF AMERICA LETTER XLII Cambridge, in New England, Nov. 17, 1777 My dear friend, IN military operations, the conqueror is delighted to honor the good conduct and...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 8 of Volume 2 2 arms, that they might not be spectators of so humiliating a scene. Our situation, although unfortunate, is not the first instance of an army's capitulating, witness the convention at Closterhauven, which...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 9 of Volume 2 3 and regular communication with the southern army, ill success has been the consequence. The sad event of our expedition evinces the necessity of confiding the plan of war to a General,...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 10 of Volume 2 4 of a campaign, carried on through a country in interior desarts, and at a distance of three thousand miles, without allowing the General who is to conduct that army, to be...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 11 of Volume 2 5 credited every report, and are continually led away by the false information of men who are interested in the deception, and are profiting by the common calamities of England and America....- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 12 of Volume 2 6 riflemen the enemy had posted in trees, and at night the men were prevented, as they were sure to be taken prisoners, if they attempted it. All the water that the...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 13 of Volume 2 7 when I obtained the rum, necessity, contrary to inclination, rendered me extremely so. Upon our arrival at Saratoga, three companies of our regiment, one of which was that I belong to,...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 14 of Volume 2 8 orders not to fire, as it might bring on a skirmishing attack, whilst the enemy were meditating another of greater importance. The men were so harrassed and fatigued with continually sitting...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 15 of Volume 2 9 redoubt. The men anxiously expected it, but were greatly disappointed by the appearance of day-break, as knowing no relief could arrive then, and that they had another day's vexation to encounter...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 16 of Volume 2 10 me it would weaken my mare, that, to use the fellow's words, if ever we march from this encampment, she will not be able to convey your baggage; at the same...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 17 of Volume 2 11 LETTER XLIII Cambride, in New England, Nov. 19 1777 My dear friend, OUR expedition, for you must pardon my dwelling on a subject so near my heart, was certainly undertaken with...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 18 of Volume 2 12 fully demonstrated he was equally as good a soldier; amidst all the hardships and difficulties we had to encounter, the attachment of all ranks to him was unshaken, and during the...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 19 of Volume 2 13 LETTER XLIV Cambridge, in New England, Nov. 20, 1777 My dear friend, GENERAL BURGOYNE had not the advantages of prosecuting war in this part of America, attendant on Lord Amherst and...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 20 of Volume 2 14 as those of New England; for by a diversion on the coast of Massachusetts, many benefits would have resulted: it would have kept the New Englanders at home for the internal...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 21 of Volume 2 15 “and put himself under his command;” at the same time adding this powerful reason, “with a view “of quelling the rebellion it is become highly necessary, “that the most speedy junction...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 22 of Volume 2 16 It may be urged, that General Howe's going to the southward was to draw off Washington from our army. He was then at Quibble-town, 200 miles distant from us when we...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 23 of Volume 2 17 apparent means, for no doubt it was the intention of General Howe to draw off General Washington's army, and to prevent his acting against ours, would have been to have taken...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 24 of Volume 2 18 ravines, and strong defiles, and the provisions for his army would be all from the distant southern colonies; he knew that it would throw a great damp upon the spirits of...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 25 of Volume 2 19 Elk, did he quit that post, and march his army to the southward. — Thus, you see, the conduct of General Washington entirely coincided with his declared and fixed sentiments. That...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 26 of Volume 2 20 LETTER XLV Cambridge, in New England, Nov. 20, 1777 My dear friend, AFTER we had piled up our arms, and our march settled, we moved forward, and spent the night on...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 27 of Volume 2 21 up the North River; and, to our mortification, we learn, that General Vaughan had advanced as far as Æsopus, which place is but a few miles from Albany. — This fully...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 28 of Volume 2 22 In crossing the river, I had nearly lost my baggage, and those in the batteaux had a very narrow escape; about the center a horse proving very unruly, jumped over, and...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 29 of Volume 2 23 and comfort they afforded each other, during our trying situation at Saratoga, seemed now to be done away; some were so inattentive to the dignity of their character, as to contend...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 30 of Volume 2 24 the peasants of New-England) their scruples were entirely satisfied, and being compleatly outwitted, they assigned him the best quarters. Upon our arrival at the place, after complimenting him with his ingenious...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 31 of Volume 2 25 child, she and the infant are both well, and are now at this place. It may be said, that women who follow a camp are of such a masculine nature, they...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 32 of Volume 2 26 you, that the New England people are very inquisitive as to the rank you have in the army: “Mr. “Ensign,” says she, “Our Jonathan and I will sleep in “this, and...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 33 of Volume 2 27 custom is in hospitable repute, and perpetual practice. We every morning look from our barracks to the mouth of Boston harbour, hoping to catch a look of the fleet of transports...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 34 of Volume 2 28 LETTER XLVI Cambridge, in New England, Nov. 25, 1777 My dear friend, ON our march to this place, we were fully convinced what powerful levies the New England states are capable...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 35 of Volume 2 29 to march, they are promised never to go out of the province, but only to oppose any enemy that appears either upon their coast or frontiers. These states can, in the...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 36 of Volume 2 30 veil of sanctity and religion, are constantly formed to encrease our mutual animosities, for men buoyed up with such assurances of Heaven, will fight to desperation. In all religious contests, we...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 37 of Volume 2 31 thought proper to send it to General Washington, who certainly would understand it better. As we passed from this town, at a small village there were assembled a great concourse of...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 38 of Volume 2 32 Grenadier's March — it is the lover's spell, the nurse's lullaby. After our rapid successes, we held the Yankees in great contempt; but it was not a little mortifying to hear...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 39 of Volume 2 33 Kemmis, the women got up, and one of them lifting up her hands and eyes to Heaven, with great astonishment, exclaimed, “Well, for my part, if that be a “Lord, I...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923
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Image 40 of Volume 2 34 with his boots. So much for an American Brigadier-General! Notwithstanding they are displeased with our Government, they are not so with our guineas, and although they are fighting for independency, they...- Contributor: Anburey, Thomas
- Date: 1923