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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, The American revolution. (search)
n of independence. Her heart was all in the Orient. She longed to establish a Christian empire on the Bosphorus, and wondered why Christians of the west should prefer to maintain Mussulmans at Constantinople. Of England, she loved and venerated the people; but she had contempt for its king and for his ministry, of which she noticed the many blunders and foretold the fall. On the other hand, she esteemed Vergennes as a wise and able minister, but did not love the French nation. Compare Arneth's Maria Theresia und Joseph II., ihre Correspondenz, III. 268. In Gustavus the Third of Sweden, the nephew of Frederic of Prussia, France might expect a friend. The revolution of 1771, in favor of the royal prerogative, had been aided by French subsidies and the counsels of Vergennes, who was selected for the occasion to be the French minister at Stockholm. The oldest colonizers of the Delaware were Swedes, and a natural affection bound their descendants to the mother country. The adv
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 11: (search)
rie Antoinette to Maria Theresa, Versailles, 6 Aug., 1779, Ihr Briefwechsel, herausgegeben von A. von Arneth, 296. The united fleet rode unmolested by the British: Sir Charles Hardy either did no. A deadly malady ravaged the French ships and infected the Spaniards. Marie Antoinette in von Arneth, 304. The combined fleet never had one chief. The French returned to port, where they remainegland were wasted by dysentery in their camps in Normandy and Brittany. Marie Antoinette in von Arneth, 304. There was a general desolation. The French public complained relentlessly of d'orvilliehing at all will have cost us a great deal of money, wrote Marie Antoinette to her mother. Von Arneth, 302. There was nothing Chap. XI.} 1779. but the capture of the little island of Grenada for ughter, who could only answer: The nothingness of the campaign removes every idea of peace. Von Arneth, 306. During the attempt at an invasion of England, the allied belligerents considered the