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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 29: (search)
April, 1767. had been so highly colored, that Choiseul began to think the time for the great American insurrection was come. He resolved, therefore, to send an emissary across the Atlantic, and selected for that purpose the brave and upright De Kalb, a Colonel of Infantry, from Alsace, able to Chap. XXIX.} 1767. April. converse with Americans of German parentage in their own tongue. His written instructions, dated on the twenty-second day of April, enjoined him to repair to Amsterdam, the give you, said Choiseul, is difficult, and demands intelligence. Ask of me the means which you think necessary for its execution; I will furnish you with them all. Choiseul to De Kalb, 20 April, 1767; Special and Secret Instruction to Lieut. Col. de Kalb, put into his hands, 22 April, 1767; De Kalb to Choiseul, 24 April, 1767; Choiseul to De Kalb, 2 May, 1767. The eagerness of the Minister suffered his hopes to run ahead of realities; for a Frenchman could not compute the power of Angl