Browse Items (14 total)

  • Subject is exactly "United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783."

Lexington alarm letter, 1775 April 19

A1995_011_DS1.jpg
Alarm letter, containing an account of the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775, originally written by Joseph Palmer, at Watertown, Massachusetts, just hours after the event. This attested copy written by Daniel Tyler, Jr., at Brooklyn, Connecticut on…

Report from Fort No. 2 (Dorchester Heights), 1776 November 19

A1994_038_DS.jpg
This report from Fort No. 2 (Dorchester, Massachusetts) by Revolutionary War Lieutenant Daniel Wheelwright provides an account of events to the officer of the day.

Muster Roll, 1775 September 12

A1994_038_2DS.jpg
A muster roll for American Revolutionary War Captain Samuel Leighton's Company in the 30th Regiment of Foot. Dated September 12, 1775.

A song, composed by the British soldiers, after the fight at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, between 1875 and 1880

A2018_029_033DS1.jpg
A song, composed by the British soldiers, after the fight at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. Dated between 1875 and 1880. This song in twelve stanzas was written by an unknown British author and commemorates the Battle of Bunker Hill and the British…