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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Preface. (search)
rl of Derby. Indeed, there seemed to prevail in the foreign office a readiness to let every thing be investigated and made known respecting the past policy of Great Britain toward the United States. The American government has manifested the same disposition, and this I hold to be wise. The two great cosmopolitan nations are enterrors which disturbed the past, and from what was done well. The rule in natural science that life divides is equally true of nations. The United States and Great Britain will each live its great and divergent life; but it is to be hoped that the same ideas of freedom, truth, and justice will be developed in them both, and bringd that she practised on the British minister at Petersburg no other cajolery than was needed to make him the channel through which the code was communicated to Great Britain, so that direct crimination might be avoided. The contemporary documents show that England declared war on the Dutch republic, solely to prevent her from bein
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, The American revolution. (search)
he American revolution. Epoch fourth continued. Peace between America and Great Britain. 1778-1782. Peace between the United States of America and Great BritaiGreat Britain. Chapter 1: Europe and American independence. 1778. The alliance of France with the United States Chap. I.} 1778. brought the American question into the het ever insisted, and his friends continued to maintain, that the commons of Great Britain had no right to impose taxes on unrepresented colonies. This was the first, retard useful works for the happiness of France, and justify reprisals by Great Britain on the colonies of the Bourbon princes. It was against the interior sente northern powers, Russia was for the United States the most important; for Great Britain with ceaseless importunity sought its alliance: but its empress put aside ee republic had little interest of its own, it remained the faithful ally of Great Britain. Gibraltar was taken by ships and troops of the Dutch not less than by tho
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 3: (search)
Chapter 3: The relations of the two New powers. 1778. The negotiations of Great Britain with the petty Chap. III.} princes, who transferred the service of their subjects for money, have been fully related. Duke Ernest of Saxony, cultivated by travel in Holland, England, and France, ruled his principality of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg with wisdom and justice. By frugality and simplicity in his court, he restored the disordered finances of his duchy, and provided for great public woe no connection whatever with Eng- Chap. III.} 1777. land, nor do I grudge to France any advantages she may gain by the war with the colonies. Frederic to Goltz, from Neudorf, 31 Aug., 1777. Her first interest requires the enfeeblement of Great Britain, and the way to this is to make it lose its colonies in America. The present opportunity is more favorable than ever before existed, and more favorable than is likely to recur in three centuries. Frederic to Goltz, 8 Sept., 1777. The inde
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 4: (search)
May. strength of France, of the most enlightened parts of Germany, and of the states which Great Britain had formed by colonization. In England and Scotland and Ireland, though the property by feused their sentiments upon bills not essentially different from those acts. When the king of Great Britain shall be seriously disposed to end the unprovoked war waged against these United States, theible. 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 thembarkation 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; ane the most formal and irrevocable ratification of the convention by the highest authority in Great Britain. The British, on their side, complained that an essential condition of the Chap. IV.} 177
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 5: (search)
addressed a farewell manifesto to the members of congress, the several assemblies, and other inhabitants of America, that their persistence in separating from Great Britain would change the whole nature and future conduct of this war; that the extremes of war should so distress the people and desolate the country, as to make them resemblance between the proclamation and the acts of Butler at Wyoming. He added: There is an article in the extraordinaries of the army for scalping-knives. Great Britain defeats any hope in the justness of her cause by means like these to support it. The debate closed well for America, except that Lord Shelburne was provoked illowing twenty-ninth of November, all resident free male persons in the state above sixteen years, refusing to take the oath to maintain it against the king of Great Britain and all other enemies, were exiled; but a period of twelve months after their departure was allowed them to dispose of their property. In October, 1778, after
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 6: (search)
d of their coming influence shaped her policy Chap. VI.} 1778. during their struggle. She was willing to encourage them so far as to exhaust the resources of Great Britain by one campaign more; but she was bent on restraining France from an alliance with them, till she should herself have wrung from their agents at Paris all the a war which had neither an object for its beginning, nor a plan Chap. VI.} 1778. for its close. Baffled in her policy by France, Spain next thought to use Great Britain as her instrument for repressing the growth of the United States. Her first wish was to prevent their self-existence, and, as mediator, to dictate the terms ond he answered, that while France supported the colonies in rebellion no negotiation could be entered into. Weymouth to Grantham, 20 May, 1778. But, as both Great Britain and Spain were interested in preserving colonial dependency, he invited a closer union between them, and even proposed an alliance. At this point in the neg
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 7: (search)
s dear to every lover of political freedom. He derived his theory of morals from eternal and immutable principles, and his essay on liberty, which was read in Great Britain, America, and through a translation in Germany, founded the rights of man on the reality of truth and justice. He had devised a scheme for the payment of the of the middle provinces, by hanging or exiling all its rebels, and confiscating their estates to the benefit of the friends to government. Wiser partisans of Great Britain reprobated the desire of continuing the war for the sake of war, and foretold that, should the mode of devastation be adopted, the friends of government must be we shall secure to the United States Canada, Nova Scotia, Florida too, and the fishery, by our arms or by treaty. We shall never be on a solid footing, till Great Britain cedes to us, or we wrest from her, what nature designs we should have. For want of a government this boundless hope of a young and resolute people could hav
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 8: (search)
and the United States, he was persuaded, could never conclude a peace with Great Britain except under the auspices of France and Spain, and must submit to any termshe declared frankly, that Spain would furnish no troops for the invasion of Great Britain; France must undertake it alone; even the junction of the fleets of Brest aectly to congress, that it might be made the basis of all the advantages to Great Britain which so desirable an object might seem to be worth. Weymouth to Grantha This policy was so founded in wisdom, that it continued to be the rule of Great Britain for a little more than eighty years. Meantime Vergennes, on the twelfth s signed. By its terms France bound herself to undertake the invasion of Great Britain or Ireland; if she could drive the British from Newfoundland, its fisheriesdrained by its waters, the Bourbons of Spain, hoping to act in concert with Great Britain as well as France, would have excluded the United States totally and foreve
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 9: (search)
n 1778 implied a willingness to treat with Great Britain on her recognition of American independenc of the Ohio river should be guaranteed to Great Britain; but such a proposition could never gain adependence must be finally acknowledged by Great Britain. This being effected, they proposed as tht; for it was a question with Spain alone; Great Britain, according to the American view, was to pecht divided those of Newfoundland between Great Britain and France, on the principle that each shosed during their political connection with Great Britain. He was in part supported by Sherman; the guarantee of France, or the consent of Great Britain, the American minister should not sign any place in a future treaty of commerce with Great Britain. The proposition to stipulate a right to f the United States should, on the part of Great Britain, be assured. Further; Gerard wished Ameri, by a unanimous vote, directed to require Great Britain to treat with the United States as soverei[4 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 10: (search)
ent against them could strike them in the rear. The march into the country of the Senecas on the left extended to Genesee; on the right, detachments reached Cayuga lake. After destroying eighteen villages and their fields of corn, Sullivan, whose army had suffered for want of supplies, returned to New. Jersey. Meantime, a small party from Fort Pitt, under command of Colonel Brodhead, broke up the towns of the Senecas upon the upper branch of the Alleghany. The manifest inability of Great Britain to protect the Six Nations inclined them at last to desire neutrality. In June the British general Maclean, who com- June. manded in Nova Scotia, established a British post of six hundred men at what is now Castine, on Penobscot bay. To dislodge the intruders, the Massachusetts legislature sent forth nineteen armed ships, Chap. X.} 1779. June. sloops, and brigs; two of them continental vessels, the rest privateers or belonging to the state. The flotilla carried more than three h
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