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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 62 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. 15 9 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 14 0 Browse Search
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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 6 0 Browse Search
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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 5 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 5 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 4: (search)
England; that independence was peace; and, by a unanimous vote, they on the seventeenth made answer as before: 17. The idea of dependence is inadmissible. Congress will be ready to enter upon a treaty of peace and commerce, when the king of Great Britain shall demonstrate a sincere disposition for that purpose by an explicit acknowledgment of the independence of these states, or withdrawing his fleets and armies. The American officers were of the same mind, except Lee, who was false, 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, Bu
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 9: (search)
ization of the strength of all the states. Washington remained more than a month at Philadelphia in consultation with congress, and all agreed that the country must confine itself to a defensive campaign. Writings of Washington, ed. Sparks, VI. 217. Measures for the relief of the national treasury were postponed by congress from day to day, apparently from thoughtlessness, but really from conscious inability to devise a remedy; while it wasted time upon personal and party interests. Gates was more busy than ever in whispers against Washington. Chap. IX.} 1779. Most men thought the war near its end; the skilfully speculative grew rich by the fluctuations in prices; and shocked a laborious and frugal people by their extravagant style of living. The use of irredeemable paper poisoned the relations of life, and affected contracts and debts, trusts and inheritances. Added to this, the British had succeeded in circulating counterfeit money so widely, that congress in January wa
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 10: (search)
s, that of the Susquehanna was selected for three thousand 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
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 15: (search)
ter 15: War in the South: Cornwallis and Gates. 1780. rivalry and dissension between Clinhirteenth of June unanimously ap- 13. pointed Gates to the command of the southern army, and constave been established in case of disaster. But Gates was impatient; and having detached Marion towa public mind against British authority invited Gates onwards. To the encouragements of others the venth, at the Cross Roads, the troops with 7. Gates made a junction with the North Carolina militians at the break of day. On the fourteenth, Gates had been joined by seven 14. hundred Virginiathat had never even been paraded together; but Gates, who had the most sanguine confidence of victoers held immediately in the rear of the lines, Gates communicated the report of a prisoner, that a hirds of the army fled without firing a shot. Gates writes of them, as an eye-witness: The British 16. hearing of the misfortunes of the army of Gates, Sumpter retreated slowly and carelessly up th[11 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 16: (search)
was there a house for forty miles between the Watauga and the Catawba. The men left their families in secluded valleys, distant one from the other, exposed not only to parties of royalists, but of Indians. In the evening of the thirtieth, they 30. formed a junction with the regiment of Colonel Ben- Chap. XVI.} 1780. Oct. 1. jamin Cleaveland, consisting of three hundred and fifty men from the North Carolina counties of Wilkes and Surrey. The next day Macdowell was despatched to request Gates to send them a general officer; till he should arrive, Campbell was chosen to act as commandant. Ferguson, who had pursued the party of Macdowell to the foot of the Alleghanies, and had spread the terror of invasion beyond them, moved eastwardly towards Cornwallis by a road from Buffalo ford to King's Mountain, which offered ground for a strong encampment. Of the parties against him he thus wrote to Cornwallis: They are become an object of consequence. I should hope for success against
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 21: (search)
dsummer, from his eagerness for peace, Maurepas forgot himself so far as to insinuate his wish in a letter to one Forth, a former secretary of the British embassy at Paris. Nothing came of the overture. Peace will be a great good, wrote Chap. XXI.} 1780. Marie Antoinette; but, if our enemies do not demand it, I shall be very much afflicted by a humiliating one. Marie Antoinette to Maria Theresa, 13 July and 11 Oct., 1780. After the capture of Charleston, and the rout of the army under Gates, the British parliament, which came together in November, granted all the demands of the ministry for money and for men by vast majorities; and the dread of disorder in the cities of England gave new strength to the government. At such a moment, Necker, who was ready Dec. 1. to take everything upon himself, wrote secretly to Lord North, proposing peace on the basis of a truce, during which each party should keep possession of all that it had acquired. The terms thus clandestinely offered
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 22: (search)
ter 22: The southern campaign. Morgan at the Cowpens. 1780, 1781. after the defeat of Gates, congress subjected its Chap. XXII.} 1780. Oct. 30. favorite to a court of inquiry, and, conforadvice of Washington, appointed Major-General Greene to the command of the southern department. Gates had received his appointment and his instructions directly from congress, and his command had beDelaware and the states south of it; and conferred on him all the powers that had been vested in Gates, but subject to the control of the commanderin-chief. Journals, III. 511. Thus the conduct of and capacity for transportation of the Dan, the Yadkin, and the Catawba. Before his departure, Gates had brought together two thousand three hundred and seven men, of whom only a little more than o; but they exceeded all that he had feared. Shoals of militia, kept on foot since the defeat of Gates, had done little but waste the country. The power of government was far less than in the north.