Primary Sources: American Revolution: Military

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Vice-Admiral of the Blue and Commander-in-Chief of His Britannic Majesty's ships in North America, January-July, 1776

An annotated edition of the military journal of Jeremiah Greenman / edited by Robert C. Bray & Paul E. Bushnell

commanding the Second Rhode Island continental regiment during the American revolution, 1778-1781; transcribed from the original manuscript, together with a biographical sketch of the author and illustrative notes by Edward Field.

Relating to the naval operations of the Yorktown campaign, July to October, 1781

Chief of the Hanau Artillery during the Burgoyne Campaign

Kemble was "deputy adjutant general of the forces in North America," 1772-1779. On his resignation Oct. 23, 1779, he went to Jamaica, and in Apr. 1780 was sent with reinforcements to supersede Col. Polson who had landed an expedition in Nicaragua. His later services were in England, Canada, West Indies, &c.

Together with an appendix, containing revolutionary journals and letters, hitherto unpublished.

During the American Revolutionary War, from 1775 to 1783

Prepared from the originals in the Library of Congress by Charles Henry Lincoln, to the Division of manuscripts.

in 1781-2, as Described in Two Contemporaneous Journals

As described in two contemporaneous journals.
Edited by John Dawson Gilmary Shea.
The second journal was written "by a friendly hand, if not his [de Grasse's] own." cf. p. 21.
The name "Chevalier de Goussencourt," under which the first journal was issued, appears to be a pseudonym. cf. Pref.

August, 1776-September, 1780, ed. by Charles Oscar Paullin.

containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers; names of the officers and privates of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their and enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene.

issued during the years 1778, '80, '81, & '82, selected from the mss. of John Whiting, lieut. and adjutant of the 2nd regiment Massachusetts line, and ed. by his son, Henry Whiting.