The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War - xaviantvision

From a letter by John Brewer, written in 1779 and published in the Bangor Whig and Courier, August 13th, 1846:"I then told the Commodore that . . . I thought that as the wind breezed up he might go in with his shipping, silence the two [sic] vessels and the sixgun battery, and land the troops under cover of his own guns, and in half an hour make everything his own. In reply to which he hove up his longchin, and said, "You seem to be damned knowing about the matter! I am not going to risk my shipping in that damned hole!"Excerpts of a letter from John Preble to the Honorable Jeremiah Powell, President, Council Board of the State of Massachusetts Bay, July 24th, 1779:I have been upon Command with the Indians five Weeks there is now there about 60 warriors the greater part firce for War and wait only for Ordersto march and assist their Brothers the Americans. The Enemey coudent incurd their displeasure more than comming on their River or near it tofourtify they have declared to me they would Spil Every drop of their Blood in defense of their Land and Liberty they seem to be more and moreSensible of the diabollical intentions of the Enemy and the Justness of our Cause. . . . This moment the Fleet appears in Sight which gives univalJoy to White and Black Soldiers Every one is Antious and desirious for action and I can acquaint your Honors that on my passage here in a burchCanoe the people at Naskeeg and up a long shore declared they were Ready . . . to fight for us altho they had taken the Oath of Fidelity to theBritish party.