Journal of du Roi the Elder: Lieutenant and Adjutant, in the Service of the Duke of Brunswick, 1776-1778 Translated from the Original German ... Congress, Washington, D. C (Classic Reprint)

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 by the permission of Dr. Herbert Putnam, the Librarian of Con gress, 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 A meri can 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 mat ter. 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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