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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 10: (search)
was a double row of abattis. Breastworks and strong batteries could rake any column which might advance over the beach and the marsh. From the river, vessels of war commanded the foot of the hill. Conducting twelve hundred chosen men in single file over mountains and through morasses and narrow passes, Wayne halted them at a distance of a mile and a half from the enemy, while with the principal officers he reconnoitred the works. About twenty minutes after twelve on the morning of the sixteenth, 16. the assault began, the troops placing their sole dependence on the bayonet. Two advance parties of Chap. X.} 1779. July. 16. twenty men each, in one of which seventeen out of the twenty were killed or wounded, removed the abattis and other obstructions. Wayne, leading on a regiment, was wounded in the head, but, supported by his aids, still went forward. The two columns, heedless of musketry and grape-shot, gained the centre of the works nearly at the same moment. On the right
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 13: (search)
-three sail, should not be detained long off so dangerous a coast. South Carolina glowed with joy in the fixed belief, that the garrison of Savannah would lay down their arms. In ten days the 12. French troops, though unassisted, effected their landing. Meantime, the British commander worked day and night with relays of hundreds of negroes to strengthen his defences; and Maitland, regardless of malaria, hastened with troops from Beaufort through the swamps of the low country. On the sixteenth, d'estaing summoned General 16. Prevost to surrender to the arms of the king of France. While Prevost gained time by a triple interchange of notes, Maitland, flushed with a mortal fever caught on the march, brought to his aid through the inland channels the first division of about four hundred men from Beaufort. The second division followed a few hours later; and when both had arrived, the British gave their answer of defiance. Swiftly as the summons had been borne through South Caro
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 15: (search)
to a council of officers an order to begin their march at ten o'clock in the evening of that day. He was listened to in silence. Many wondered at a night march of an army of which more than twothirds were militia, that had never even been paraded together; but Gates, who had the most sanguine confidence of victory and the dispersion of the enemy, appointed no place for rendezvous, and began his march before his baggage was sufficiently in the rear. At half-past 2 on the morning of the sixteenth, 16. about nine miles from Camden, the advance guard of Cornwallis fell in with the advance guard of the Americans. To the latter the collision was a surprise. Their cavalry was in front, but Armand, its commander, who disliked his orders, was insubordinate; the horsemen in his command turned suddenly and fled; and neither he nor they did any service that night or the next day. The retreat of Armand's legion produced confusion in the first Maryland brigade, and spread consternation thro
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 18: (search)
by luck the British admiralty of that day, tired of the Keppels and the Palisers, the Chap. XVIII.} 1780. mutinous and the incompetent, put in command of the expedition that was to relieve Gibraltar and rule the seas of the West Indies. One of the king's younger sons served on board his fleet as midshipman. He took his squadron to sea on the twenty-ninth of December, 1779. On the eighth of January, 1780, Jan. 8. he captured seven vessels of war and fifteen sail of merchantmen. On the sixteenth, he encountered off 16. Cape St. Vincent, the Spanish squadron of Languara, very inferior to his own, and easily took or destroyed a great part of it. Having victualled the garrison of Gibraltar, and relieved Minorca, on the thirteenth Feb. 13. of February he set sail for the West Indies. At St. Lucie he received letters from his wife, saying: Everybody is beyond measure delighted as well as astonished at your success; from his daughter: Everybody almost adores you, and every mouth is f
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 20: (search)
Even the stadholder, the great partisan of England, thought that the Dutch government had done enough to remove from themselves every suspicion. Yet on the first of December Stormont demanded Dec. 1. the exemplary and immediate punishment of the Amsterdam offenders; and on the fifth he asked of 5. Yorke some ideas for a manifesto, for he was preparing to send secret orders to seize the Dutch settlements in the West Indies. Stormont to Yorke, Confidential, 5 Dec., 1780. Then, on the sixteenth, 16. before he even knew that his second memorial had been presented, having been informed that, on the afternoon of the eleventh, the states-general had resolved to make the declaration of the armed neutrality without delay, he sent orders to Yorke as soon as may be to quit Holland without taking leave. Stormont to Yorke, 16 Dec., 1780. While Yorke was still negotiating at the Hague, British cruisers pounced upon the unsuspecting merchantmen of their ally of a hundred and six year
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 22: (search)
above the Cherokee ford. Chap. XXII.} 1781. Jan. 15. On the afternoon of the fifteenth, Morgan encamped at Burr's Mills on Thickety creek; and from this place on the same day he wrote to Greene his wish to avoid an action. But this, he added, will not be always in my power. Johnson's Greene, 370. His scouts, whom he kept within half a mile of the camp of his enemy, informed him that Tarleton had crossed the Tyger at Musgrove's Mills with a force of eleven or twelve hundred men. On the sixteenth, he put himself 16. and his party in full motion towards Broad river, while in the evening the camp which he had abandoned was occupied by Tarleton's party. On that day, Cornwallis with his army reached Turkey creek. In the genial clime of South Carolina, where the grass is springing in every month of winter, cattle in those days grazed in the field all the year round; never housed, nor fed by the hand of man, but driven from time to time into cowpens, where each inhabitant gave salt
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
e Sixteenth distinguished the regiment of Gatinois by naming it the Royal Auvergne. Washington acknowledged the emulous courage, intrepidity, coolness, and firmness of the attacking troops. On that night victory twined double garlands around the banners Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vive la France. of France and America. By the unwearied labor of the French and Americans, both redoubts were included in the second parallel in the night of their capture. Just before the break of day of the sixteenth, the British made a 16. sortie upon a part of the second parallel and spiked four French pieces of artillery and two of the American; but on the quick advance of the guards in the trenches they retreated precipitately. The spikes were easily extracted; and in six hours the cannon again took part in the fire which enfiladed the British works. On the seventeenth, Cornwallis, who could neither Chap. XXV.} 1781. Oct. 18. hold his post nor escape into the country, proposed to surrender.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 29: (search)
affairs, since it is so hard for us to understand them ourselves; there is need of but three persons to make peace, myself, the Count de Vergennes, and you. I shall be as pacific in negotiating as I shall be active for war, if war must be continued, he added, on 14. the fourteenth. Rayneval replied: Count de Vergennes will, without ceasing, preach justice and moderation. It is his own code, and it is that of the king. On the fifteenth, they both came up to Lon- 15. don, where, on the sixteenth, Rayneval met Lord 16. Grantham. Nothing could be more decided than his refusal to treat about Gibraltar. On the seventeenth, 17. in bidding farewell to Rayneval, Shelburne said, in the most serious tone and the most courteous manner: have been deeply touched by everything you have said to me about the character of the king of France, his principles of justice and moderation, his love of peace. I wish, not only to re-establish peace between the two nations and the two sovereigns, but t