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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 3: (search)
Anspach and Hesse to pass through his dominions. The prohibition, which was made as publicly as possible, and just as the news arrived of the surrender of Burgoyne, resounded throughout Europe; and he announced to the Americans that it was given to testify his goodwill for them. Schulenburg to Wm. Lee, 3 Feb., 1778. Every facility was afforded to the Chap. III.} 1777. American commissioners to purchase and ship arms from Prussia. Before the end of 1777 he promised not to be the last to recognise the independence of the United States; Schulenburg to Arthur Lee, 18 Dec., 1777. and in January, 1778, his minis- 1778. Jan. ter, Schulenburg, wrote officially to one of their commissioners in Paris: The king desires that your generous efforts may be crowned with complete success. He will not hesitate to recognise your independence, when France, which is more directly interested in the event of this contest, shall have given the example. Schulenburg to Arthur Lee, 16 Jan., 1778.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 9: (search)
ant style of living. The use of irredeemable paper poisoned the relations of life, and affected contracts and debts, trusts and inheritances. Added to this, the British had succeeded in circulating counterfeit money so widely, that congress in January was compelled to recall two separate emis- Jan. sions, each of five millions. Even a defensive campaign was attended with difficulties. To leave the officers, by the depreciation of the currency, without subsistence, augured the reduction oJan. sions, each of five millions. Even a defensive campaign was attended with difficulties. To leave the officers, by the depreciation of the currency, without subsistence, augured the reduction of the army to a shadow. Writings of Washington, ed. Sparks, VI. 168. Few of them were willing to remain on the existing establishment, and congress was averse to granting pensions to them or to their widows. The rank and file were constantly decreasing in number, and not from the casualties of the service alone. Many would have the right to their discharge in the coming summer; more at the end of the year. To each of them who would agree to serve during the war, a bounty of two hundred d
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 10: (search)
of his experience:— The present crisis may be wrought into the great- 1780. Jan. est blessing of peace, liberty, and happiness, which the world hath ever yet expequence, either to the right or the fact. The independence of Chap. X.} 1780. Jan. America is fixed as fate. The government of the new empire of America is liabthe mind. The acquirement of information gives the mind thus Chap. X.} 1780. Jan. exercised a turn of inquiry and investigation, which forms a character peculiar ndicrafts, the new world hath been led to many improvements of Chap. X.} 1780. Jan. implements, tools, and machines, leading experience by the hand to many a new inpe. Unless the great potentates of Europe can station cherubim Chap. X.} 1780 Jan. at every avenue with a flaming sword that turns every way, to prevent man's quit or danger. So prophesied Pownall to the English world and to Europe in the first month of 1780. Since the issue of the war is to proceed in a great part from th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 12: (search)
ncestors, devoted to England. The grand pensionary, van Bleiswijck, had been the selection of Prince Louis. He was a weak politician, and inclined to England, but never meant to betray his country. Thus all the principal executive officers were attached to Great Britain; Prince Louis and the secretary Fagel as obsequious vassals. France had a controlling influence in no one of the provinces; but in the city of Amsterdam, van Berckel, its pensionary, was her friend. In January, 1778, Jan. before her rupture with England, the French ambassador at the Hague was instructed to suggest a convention between the states-general, France, and Spain, for liberty of navigation. As the proposal was put aside by the grand pensionary, Vergennes asked no more than that the Netherlands in the coming contest would announce to the court of London their neutrality, and support it without concessions. The treaties of alliance with England promised it no support in an aggressive war, and no guara
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 13: (search)
on board prison-ships to be swept away by infection. Moses Allen, the chaplain of the Georgia brigade, fervid in the pulpit and in battle, after a loathsome confinement of many months, was drowned in attempting to escape by swimming. The war was plainly to be conducted without mercy, and terror was to compensate for the want of numbers. Many submitted; but determined republicans sought an asylum in the western parts of the state. Early in January, 1779, Brigadier-General Prevost 1779. Jan. marched as a conqueror across lower Georgia to Savannah, reducing Sunbury on the way and capturing its garrison; and Campbell, with eight hundred regulars, took possession of Augusta. The province appearing to be restored to the crown, plunder became the chief thought of the British army. From jealousy of concentrated power, congress kept the military departments independent of each other. At the request of the delegates from South Carolina, Robert Howe was superseded in the south- Cha
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 14: (search)
The admiral led the van into the adverse current of the gulf stream; glacial storms scattered the fleet; an ordnance vessel foundered; American privateers 1780. Jan. captured some of the transports; a bark, carrying Hessian troops, lost its masts, was driven by gales across the ocean, and broke in pieces just as it had landed i passengers near St. Ives in England. Most of the horses perished. Few of the transports arrived at Tybee in Georgia, the place of rendezvous, before the end of January. After the junction of the troops, Clinton had ten thousand men under his command; and yet he instantly ordered from New York Lord Rawdon's brigade of eight reg- Chap. XIV.} 1780. Jan. iments, or about three thousand more. Charleston was an opulent town of fifteen thousand inhabitants, free and slave, including a large population of traders and others, strongly attached to England and hating independence. The city, which was not deserted by its private families, had no considerable
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 19: (search)
In the midst of these financial straits, the year came to an end; and a paper dollar, which in January had been worth twelve and a half cents, was in December worth less than two and a half cents. he war; and three years had passed since that time. In the night of the first of January, 1781. Jan. 1781, a part of the Pennsylvania line, composed in a large degree of Irish immigrants, and hutted the not infrequent want of food, the compulsion imposed upon some of them to Chap. XIX.} 1781. Jan. remain in service beyond the three years for which they believed they had engaged, were extremitialmost every one of them native Americans, freeholders or sons of freeholders. Chap. XIX.} 1781 Jan. In spite of their nakedness, they marched through deep snows, over mountainous roads, and supprest them before the government of France in the most striking light. Hamilton, Chap. XIX.} 1781. Jan. the fittest man for the office, was not known to congress; and its choice fell on the younger Lau
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 23: (search)
Chapter 23: The southern campaign. Battle of Guilford court-house. January—March, 1781. Morgan's success lighted the fire of emulation in Chap. XXIII.} 1781. Jan. 18. the breast of Greene, and he was loath it should stand alone. The defeat at the Cowpens took Cornwallis by surprise. It is impossible, so he wrote on the eighteenth of January, to his superior, Sir Henry Clinton, to foresee all the consequences that this unexpected and extraordinary event may produce. But nothing but the most absolute necessity shall induce me to give up the important object of the winter's campaign. Defensive measures would be certain ruin to the affairs of Britain in the southern colonies. Instead of remaining in South Carolina, as he should have done, he without orders and on his own responsibility persisted in his original plan of striking at the heart of North Carolina, establishing there a royal government, and pressing forward to a junction with the British troops on the Chesap
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 28: (search)
s committed under the authority of Lord George Germain to injure the property or take the life of a loyalist, although private anger could not always be restrained. In conformity to the writs issued by Rutledge, as governor, the assembly met in January at Jacksonborough, on the Edisto. In the legislature were many of those who had been released from imprisonment, or had returned from exile. Against the advice of Gadsden, who insisted that it was sound policy to forget and forgive, laws Chare one poor savage than destroy twenty, and Greene, who longed for the repose of domestic life, strove to reconcile the Carolina patriots to the loyalists. The complaints of Greene respecting the wants of his army were incessant and just. In January, he wrote: Our men are almost naked for want of overalls and shirts, and the greater part of the army barefoot. In March, he repeated the same tale: We have three hundred men without arms; twice that number so naked as to be unfit for any duty