Tuesday, March 31, 2009

This Day in History: March 31

A Captain [Deshields] who escaped from New York on Saturday Evening and who arrived here this Morning informs, that about three thousand Troops (British and Hessian) were embarked from the City and Staten Island when he came away. It was generally said, they had in contemplation an expedition to Chesapeak Bay, and to make a descent on the Eastern Shore. [More]

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