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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Preface. (search)
nce passed a day with John Adams. With regard to the peace between the United States and England, I think I might say that my materials in their completeness are unique. Of the letters of the American commissioners, nearly all are in print; yet I have been able to make gleanings from unpublished papers of them all, and have full reports of their conversations with the British representatives. On the French side, I have papers drawn up for the guidance of the negotiation; the reports of Rayneval from England to Vergennes, repeated in the accounts addressed by Vergennes himself to Montmorin, the French ambassador at Madrid, and to Luzerne, the French minister at Philadelphia. On the British side, I have the official letters of Shelburne and Secretary Townshend, and of every member of the British commission; beside a profusion of the private letters and papers of Shelburne and of Oswald. I have also the private papers, as well as the official ones, of Strachey; and the courtesy of
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 5: (search)
nd and annexing that island to the American republic as a fourteenth state with representation in congress. Extract of a letter of the Count d'estaing to Gerard de Rayneval, in Gerard de Rayneval to the Count de Vergennes, 15 July, 1778. Washington proposed to employ the temporary superiority at sea in the capture of Rhode IslaGerard de Rayneval to the Count de Vergennes, 15 July, 1778. Washington proposed to employ the temporary superiority at sea in the capture of Rhode Island and its garrison of six thousand men. He had in advance summoned Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island to send quotas of their militia for the expedition. The council of war of Rhode Island, exceeding his requirement, called out one half of the effective force of the state for twenty days from the first of August, and ooy at the al- Chap. V.} 1778. Aug. 6. liance with France. Congress on Sunday the sixth of August, with studied ceremony, gave its audience of reception to Gerard de Rayneval, the French plenipotentiary, listened to his assurances of the affection of his king for the United States and for each one of them, and acknowledged the ha
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 28: (search)
that hostilities of all kinds might be stayed. He treated captives always with gentleness; and some of them he set free. When Washington asked that the Carolinians who had been exiled in violation of the capitulation of Charleston might have leave to return to their native state under a flag of truce, Carleton answered that they should be sent back at the cost of the king of England; and that everything should be done to make them forget the hardships which they had endured. Luzerne to Rayneval, 10 June, 1782. Two hundred Iroquois, two hundred Ottawas, and seventy Chippeways came in the summer to St. Johns on the Chambly, ready to make a raid into the state of New York. They were told from Carleton to bury their hatchets and their tomahawks. Acting under the orders of Greene in Georgia, Feb. Wayne, by spirited manoeuvres, succeeded in wresting the state from the hands of the British, obliging them to abandon post after post and redoubt after redoubt, until they were completel
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 29: (search)
here, on the fourth of Sep- Sept. 4. tember, Rayneval sought to persuade him to resign for his count stream. Jay was inflexible. On the sixth, Rayneval sent him a paper containing a long 6. argume Shelburne. On the ninth, the departure of Rayneval came to 9. the knowledge of Jay. On the tente would for the present take no measures with Rayneval; giving as the reason, that it was the obviouh which he was welcomed. Gibraltar, observed Rayneval, is as dear to the king of Spain as his life.ete mistress of the Gulf of Mexico, continued Rayneval. On this point, Shelburne opened the way forcontinued, he added, on 14. the fourteenth. Rayneval replied: Count de Vergennes will, without ceaup to Lon- 15. don, where, on the sixteenth, Rayneval met Lord 16. Grantham. Nothing could be more the seventeenth, 17. in bidding farewell to Rayneval, Shelburne said, in the most serious tone andwill be established between the two princes. Rayneval reciprocated these views, and added: Your pri[2 more...]