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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 3: (search)
has been already printed in Ranke's Die deutschen Machte, i. 218. The friend to whom these words were addressed was the brave, warm-hearted Charles Augustus of Saxe-Weimar, who, in 1776, being then of only nineteen years, refused a request for leave to open recruiting offices at Ilmenau and Jena for the English service, Wangenheim to the duke, 22 May, 1776. but consented to the delivery of vagabonds and convicts. Factum d. 12 Juni. Signed von Fritsch. When, in the last days of November, 1777, the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, as the go between of the British ministry, made unlimited offers of subsidies for some of his battalions, the patriot prince called his ministers to a conference, and, supported by the unanimous advice of those present, on the third of December, he answered: There are, in general, many weighty reasons why I cannot yield my consent to deliver troops into foreign service and pay; and it is minuted on the draft that Serenissimus himself took charge of postin
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 4: (search)
lse, and Gates, who, in the belief that Chap. IV.} 1778. everything contended for was granted, wished a conference with the commissioners. Washington, reproving Johnstone for addressing him a private letter, assured him that the voice of congress was the general voice of the people. The convention of Saratoga had been broken by the British at the time of the surrender by the concealment of the public chest and other public property of which the United States were thus defrauded. In November, 1777, Burgoyne had written a rash and groundless complaint of its violation by the Americans, and raised the implication that he might use the pretended breach to disengage himself and his government from all its obligations. In January, 1778, congress suspended the embarkation of his army until his capitulation should be expressly confirmed by the court of Great Britain. Congress had also made a demand for lists of all persons comprehended in the surrender; and a compliance with this very