Excerpt from Journal or Historical Recollections of American Events: During the Revolutionary WarThis Journal or Diary of Events which occur red during our Revolutionary War, is published, verbatim, literatim et pwnctuatim, from a faithful copy, made in 1874, of the original Journal writ ten by Elias Boudinot, and which was then in the possession of Joseph J. Mickley, of Philadelphia. That the publication of the same is merely cairy ing out the desire of the author who wished to bequeath to posterity a true and ungarbled ao count Of the important occurrences of those times, is attested to by himself, in the early pages of the Journal, as he says, A great many interesting anecdotes, that happened during the American Revolutionary War, are likely to be lost to pos terity, by the negligence of the parties concerned, in not recording them I shall therefore Without any attention to order, set down those I have had any acquaintance with, attending principally to the truth of the facts. Conse quently, we have here a gathering of anecdotes of vital historical interest, bequeathed to us by him who participated in many of the occurrences, or which were narrated to him, at the time of their inception, by other participants.Many of the narratives impart information not to be obtained from any other source, while some establish the claim to truthfulness of deeds which were ascribed to individuals, and which have been, until this publication, considered vague and imag inary, as instance the anecdote of John Aitken, alias John the Painter, who intended to assassi nate George the Third, but who was diverted from the deed by Silas Deane, and destroyed instead the naval stores at Portsmouth, England, also the anecdote of the heroine, Lydia Darrah, who con veyed to the author the information of the intended movements Of the British Army at Philadelphia, and the imparting of which to General Washing ton, saved the Continental Army a disastrous defeat.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.