Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Journal of Captain John Montresor, June 19, 1777

This morning at 2 o'clock the line moved & proceeded to Brunswick, the column with Lord Cornwallis following in the Rear. Encamped on each side the River Rariton by ½ past 7 this morning. Some firing on our Rear but checked with the guns. In marching off two officers and fourteen of the Fifty fifth-missing.

SOURCE: G. D. Scull, Editor, The Montresor Journals, p. 423

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