A British Fusilier in Revolutionary Boston
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Originally published in 1926. British Fusilier in Revolutionary Boston- Diary of Lieutenant FREDERICK. MACKENZIE by ALLEN FRENCH. Text extracted from opening pages of book: INTRODUCTION: IN much of the re-writing of American History which has been so general in the past few years, the main effort has been to penetrate the tradition which so heavily overlays it and by the use of con temporary documents to reach the actual facts. That this effort is wholesome, few will deny , nor can any harm come from knowing the truth about our ancestors. This would be reason enough for publishing any Revolutionary diary, but the one herewith presented, written in Boston in 1775 by Lieutenant Frederick Mackenzie, a British officer, has its own intrinsic value. Until now the only portion of it printed was a part of the narra tive of a single day, which has long been the standard account of Lord Percys expedition to Lexington on the eigth of April, 1775. No writer upon that first day of our Revolution but has drawn heavily upon this narrative. Yet, buried in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society ( for March, 1896), it has not been easily accessible to the general reader, nor in convenient form for one assembling a library of Revolutionary Americana. In writing my Day of Lexington and Concord two or more years ago, I depended greatly upon this narrative, and finding it of the highest value, wished to discover the remainder. The extract had been communicated to the Massachusetts Historical Society by Mrs. Frances Rose-Troup, an American married in England, but when at length I managed to get word from her, I found that she had lost track of the original diary and believed it de stroyed. As it was my plan to visit England in the summer of I wrote in advance to the Literary Supplement of the London Times, stating the object of my search. By good fortune a copy containing my letter came under the eyes of a descendant of the original writer, and on landing in England I was
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