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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 162 162 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 7: (search)
ore congress. In December, 1777, in advance of treaties of commerce and alliance, the American commissioners in France and Spain were instructed to borrow two million pounds sterling, to be repaid in ten years; and in February, 1778, the commissioner for Tus- 1778. Feb. cany was charged to borrow half as much more. Yet the grand duke of Tuscany would have no relations with the United States; and no power was so ill disposed towards them as Spain. To the American people congress wrote in May: May. The reasons that your money hath depreciated are, because no taxes have been imposed to carry on the war; but they did not as yet venture to ask power to levy taxes. On obtaining the king of France for their ally, they authorized drafts on their commissioners in Paris for thirty-one and a half millions of livres, at five livres to the dollar, in payment of loanoffice certificates, leaving Franklin and his colleagues to meet the bills of exchange as they could. Of continental bills, f
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 10: (search)
men of the best continental troops, who were to rally at Wyoming; while one thousand or more of the men of New York were to move from the Mohawk river. Before they could be ready, a party of five or six hundred men, led by Van Schaick and Willet, made a swift march of three days into the country of the Onondagas, and, without the loss of a man, destroyed their settlement. The great expedition was more tardy. Its command, which Gates declined, devolved on Sullivan, to whom Washington in May gave repeatedly the May. instruction: Move as light as possible even from the first onset. Should time be lost in transporting the troops and stores, the provisions will be consumed, and the whole enterprise may be defeated. Reject every article that can be dispensed with; this is an extraordinary case, and requires extraordinary attention. Washington to Sullivan, Middlebrook, 31 May, 1779. Yet Sullivan made insatiable demands Chap. X.} 1779. on the government of Pennsylvania. Whil
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 18: (search)
and Arnold. 1780. Desultory movements of the British and Ameri- Chap. XVIII.} 1780. can troops in the North during the winter of 1780 were baffled by unwonted cold and deep snows. The Hudson and the East river were covered with solid ice, but Knyphausen provided for the safety of New York by forming battalions of the loyal inhabitants and refugees. Besides; the American army, whose pay was in arrear and whom congress could not provide with food, was too feeble to hazard an attack. In May the continental troops between the Chesapeake and Canada amounted only to seven thousand men; in the first week of June, those under the command of Washington, present and fit for duty, numbered but three thousand seven hundred and sixty. On the twenty-eighth of May, the official report May 28. of the surrender of Charleston was received. Journal desjenigen: was sich unter dem an den Generallieutenant von Kniephausen übertrage nen Commando ereignet hat. The refugees insisted that the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 19: (search)
ate without Maryland was the vote of Connecticut; with nine or more states, was the opinion at Boston; with so many as shall be willing to do so, allowing to the rest a time during which they might come in, was the decision of Virginia. Late in May, congress apportioned among the states forty-five millions of dollars more, though there was no chance that the former apportionment would be paid. Four times in the course of the year it sent forth addresses to the several states. Newspapers, tas then with the army relates, by the influence of the commander-in-chief whom they almost adored. The enemy appeared against them in the midst of these trials; and they rallied as one man and kept him at bay. Certain I am, wrote Washington in May, to his friend Joseph Jones, a delegate from Virginia, unless congress are vested with powers by the several states competent to the great purposes of war, or assume them as matter of right, and they and the states respectively act with more
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 20: (search)
English mail was waited for to learn by what new measures the British cabinet would abuse their power, and how many more Dutch ships had been seized. The republic had no part to choose but submission to Great Britain or an association with Russia. The draft of the convention which the empress had directed to be offered to Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands, arrived in June. The grand pensionary and the country wished to accede to the confederacy of the North. But the stadholder, who in May, acting in the interests of England, refused to take a step till the conduct of all the other neutral powers should be thoroughly understood, in June would not listen to June 16. any treaty with Russia unless the possessions of the republic in both Indies should be guaranteed. A better idea, wrote Yorke, could not be started to overset the whole. Yorke to Stormont, 16 June, 1780. Yet Stormont, who on this subject guided the cabinet of England, wrote to the British ambassador at the H