Author: Samuel Lovell Publisher: ISBN: 9781104662400 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 136
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Author: Gilbert Nash Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781021859105 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This fascinating book presents the original journal of General Solomon Lovell, one of the commanders of the Penobscot Expedition of 1779. The journal provides an intimate and detailed look at one of the most significant military campaigns of the Revolutionary War. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Gilbert Nash Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230376004 Category : Languages : en Pages : 30
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...was done, and the quota partly filled in that way.! Collected four hundred and thirty-three, rank and fife, and embarked them for Townsend. Some were old men, some boys, and some invalids; if they belonged to the Train Band or Alarm List, they were oldiers, whether they could carry a gun, walk a mile without crutches, or only compos mentis sufficient to! keep themselves out of fire and water." The Cumberland recruits were of much the same general character. These facts were represented to the General, who wrote at once to the several brigadiers to fill up their quotas immediately. Some of these subsequent levies reached the Penobscot just previous to the final catastrophe. 1 Lovell's Journal. 2 State Archives, vol. 145, pare 275. 3 State Archives, vol. 145, page 284. The adjutant says farther, in relation to their equipments: " most of them had arms, but many were out of repair, little or no ammunition, and most of the officers and men quite unacquainted with any military manoeuvre, and even the manual exercise." Major Todd states1 that he " received orders on the 2d July to repair to York County, to receive the troops raised there. Arrived at Wells on the 6th, and after the most urgent endeavors, consulting with General Frost and the colonels of the respective regiments," he had received, up to tie 13th, not more than sixty men, some of whom were brought in by force of arms; on the 14th he had readjr to march one hundred and thirty men, and the next day set out for Casco Bay. These testimonies are necessary in order to understand the material with which the General had to work, and the difficulties tjhat beset his way from the very outset. Even recruits of this class were deficient in number fully one-third. While at Townsnd, General...
Author: Solomon Lovell Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780666751874 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 140
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Excerpt from The Original Journal of General Solomon Lovell, Kept During the Penobscot Expedition, 1779: With a Sketch of His Life The fact that such expedition resulted in failure is no sufficient reason for withholding its history, since the light of the fullest investigation, as in many par allel cases, may not only relieve a principal actor of the odium that such disaster naturally throws upon him, but may serve to restore him to his former position and reputation, with the added lustre which the details of the service alone are able to reveal; and, also, to fasten where it properly belongs, the responsibility of the result. The Private Journal of Gen. Solomon Lovell, which is herewith published, while it may not, perhaps, present any new facts in relation to the matter of which it treats, gives a clearer insight into the details of that unfortunate affair, and affords better means of judging with whom the blame should rest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Samuel Lovell
Author: Gilbert Nash
Author: Gilbert Nash
Author: Gilbert Nash
Author: Gilbert Nash
Author: SOLOMON. LOVELL
Author: Solomon Lovell
Author: Solomon LOVELL (General, U.S. Service.)
Author: Weymouth Historical Society (WEYMOUTH, Mass.)
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