Journal of Du Roi the Elder: Lieutenant and Adjutant in the Service of the Duke of Brunswick, 1776-1778 9781512815641

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PUBLICATIONS OF T H E

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

AMERICANA GERMANICA MONOGRAPHS DEVOTED TO T H E COMPARATIVE STUDY OF T H E

Literary, UngutstiG and Other Cultural Relations OF

Germany and America EDITOR

MARION DEXTER

LEARNED

University of Pennsylvania

JOURNAL OF

D u R o i THE ELDER L I E U T E N A N T A N D A D J U T A N T , IN T H E BRUNSWICK,

Translated

from

the Original

German

SERVICE O F T H E

Manuscript

Washington,

D.

in the Library of Congress,

C.

BY

CHARLOTTE S. J. EPPING.

Atttpriratta demantra No. 15

I UNIVERSITY OP PENNSYLVANIA

1911

DUKE

1776-1778.

OF

COPYRIGHT

1911

BY M . D. LEARNED

PREFACE. This Journal

of Du Roi the Elder

has been found in one

manuscript only, that now is in the possession of the Library of Congress.

The translation has been made, and is here published

bv the permission of Dr. Herbert Putnam, the Librarian of Congress, and of Dr. Hunt, Chief of the Manuscript Department, and at the instance of Dr. Joseph G. Rosengarten, of Philadelphia. The names of Du Roi the Elder and Du Roi the Younger, which seem to have escaped many of the compilers of the lists of the officers in the English service in America during the American Revolution, appear in the lists of this journal. The journal contains much valuable information, as Du Roi was an exceptionally close observer and did not, like many of the diarists of that period, fill up his pages with irrelevant matter.

The observations on the flora and fauna of Canada will

doubtless prove interesting to students in those fields, and the English portion at the close of the journal, besides furnishing valuable details, will serve as a curious example of the English employed by the German officers.

The photographic reproduction

of the first page of the journal and of the plan of battle at Albany will be self explanatory. M . D . LEARNED.

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