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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
ivisions and angry jealousies increased between the two chief British officers in the United States, on the American side all things conspired happily together. De Barras, who commanded the French squadron at Newport, wrote as to his intentions: M. de Grasse is my junior; yet, as soon as he is within reach, I will go to sea to put But Graves, who was of higher rank than Hood, was out of the way on a silly cruise before Boston, which had no purpose unless to pick up a few prizes. Meantime de Barras, with eight ships of the line, sailed from Newport, convoying ten transports, which contained the ordnance for the siege of Yorktown. There was no want of inf. De Grasse, now undisturbed master of the Chesapeake, on his way back to his anchoring ground captured two British ships, each of thirtytwo guns, and he found de Barras safely at anchor in Chap. XXV.} 1781. the bay. Leaving the allied troops to descend by water from Elk river and Baltimore, Washington, with Rochambeau and Ch