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and that year. The Westminster Review, speaking of this last volume, says: "Opening with an account of the military operations in the Carolinas, of the treason of Arnold, and the execution of the compromised though gallant and patriotic Andre, the historian relates the retirement of Lord Cornwallis into Virginia, his occupation of Yorktown and Gloucester, his frequent repulses of the enemy, and finally, after vainly awaiting the arrival of Sir Henry Clinton, his capitulation to General Washington. This capitulation was the turning point of the American war. A year after the surrender at Yorktown the preliminaries of peace were signed. The treaty concluded, not without some sharp practice on the part of the American Commissioners, between Great Britain and the United States, was arranged in entire independence of France and Spain, the avowed allies of the insurgent colonies in their struggle for liberty. Rodney's brilliant victory compelled the French to lower their ambitious