- Call Number:
- HIL-MICL FC LMR .P6R5M5
- Category:
- Military
- Creator:
- Pope, Richard, (fl.1770s).
- Material Description:
- 1 microfilm textual records 35 mm
- Background:
A journal kept by a British soldier of the 47th Regiment relating to military activities at Boston, Ticonderoga and Saratoga. The Journal is incomplete but covers the period from 18 April 1775 - 10 January 1779.
- Contents:
The Journal contains a list of the British regiments in Boston, 19 April 1775; information on troop movements; battle preparations; lists of persons killed and wounded, by rank, for particular periods or after an engagement; numbers of rebels killed and wounded; lists of guns and equipment seized and prisoners taken; conditions of terrain; descriptions of battles; return of rank and file fit for duty at various periods, including Provincials, Germans and Indians; general orders; distribution and location of regiments in winter quarters; list of rebel fleet on Lake Champlain under Benedict Arnold, 12 October 1776; list of vessels taken and destroyed, 6 July 1777; return of ordnance; and messages between the British Lieutenant-General Burgoyne and the American Major-General Gates negotiating the British surrender at Saratoga.
- Originals:
The original records are held by The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
- Archival Ref. No.:
- Huntington Library, HM 66.