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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 22: (search)
it flows from well-founded inquiry concerning the enemy's designs. Tarleton's Campaigns, 246. To this Cornwallis replied: You have understood my intentions perfectly. Ibid., 246. The danger to Morgan was imminent; for the light troops were pursuing him on the one side, and the main army preparing to intercept his retreat on the other. On the fourteenth, Tarleton passed the 14. Enoree and Tyger rivers above the Cherokee ford. Chap. XXII.} 1781. Jan. 15. On the afternoon of the fifteenth, Morgan encamped at Burr's Mills on Thickety creek; and from this place on the same day he wrote to Greene his wish to avoid an action. But this, he added, will not be always in my power. Johnson's Greene, 370. His scouts, whom he kept within half a mile of the camp of his enemy, informed him that Tarleton had crossed the Tyger at Musgrove's Mills with a force of eleven or twelve hundred men. On the sixteenth, he put himself 16. and his party in full motion towards Broad river, while
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 23: (search)
south-west Virginia March. militia under William Campbell, by another brigade of militia from Virginia under General Lawson, by two from North Carolina under Butler and Eaton, and by four hundred regulars raised for eighteen months. Then on the tenth, while Cornwallis was on 10. his march to New Garden or the Quaker meetinghouse, he prepared to hazard an engagement. On the fourteenth, he encamped near Guilford court- 14. house, within eight miles of Cornwallis. At dawn of day on the fifteenth, Cornwallis, having 15. sent off his baggage under escort, set in motion the rest of his army, less than nineteen hundred in number, all of them veteran troops of the best quality. To oppose them, Greene had sixteen hundred and fifty-one men equal to the best of the British, and more than two thousand militia, in all twice as many as his antagonist. But he himself had not taken off his clothes since he left his camp on the Pedee; and on this most eventful day of his life he found himsel
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 24: (search)
time Rawdon marched down the Santee on the north side, anxious to save the garrison of Fort Motte, to which Marion had laid siege. To hasten its surrender, Rebecca Motte, the owner of the house in which they were quartered, on the twelfth brought 12. into camp a bow and a bundle of Indian arrows; and when the arrows had carried fire to her own abode, the garrison of a hundred and sixty-five men surrendered. Two days later, the British evacuated their 14. post at Nelson's ferry. On the fifteenth, Fort Granby 15. with three hundred and fifty-two men surrendered by capitulation. General Marion turned his arms against Georgetown; and, on the first night after the Americans had broken ground, the British retreated to Charleston. The troops under Rawdon did not halt until they reached Monk's corner. The north-western part of South Carolina was thus recovered, but the British still held Ninety-Six and Augusta. Conforming to the plan which Greene had forwarded from Deep river, Gen
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
At Williamsburg, to his amazement and chagrin, he received from his chief orders to send back about three thousand men. Clinton's letter of the eleventh expressed his fear of being attacked in New York by more than twenty thousand; there was, he said, no possibility of re-establishing order in Virginia, so general was the disaffection to Great Britain. Cornwallis should therefore take a defensive situation in any healthy station he might choose, be it at Williamsburg or Yorktown. On the fifteenth, he added: I do not think it advisable to leave more troops in that unhealthy climate at this season of the year than are absolutely wanted for a defensive and a desultory water expedition. De Grasse, so he continued on the nineteenth, will visit this coast in the hurricane season, and bring with him troops as well as ships. But when he hears that your Lordship has taken possession of York river before him, I think that their first efforts will be in this quarter. I am, however, under n
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 29: (search)
ap. XXIX.} 1782. Sept. them: they can know nothing about our affairs, since it is so hard for us to understand them ourselves; there is need of but three persons to make peace, myself, the Count de Vergennes, and you. I shall be as pacific in negotiating as I shall be active for war, if war must be continued, he added, on 14. the fourteenth. Rayneval replied: Count de Vergennes will, without ceasing, preach justice and moderation. It is his own code, and it is that of the king. On the fifteenth, they both came up to Lon- 15. don, where, on the sixteenth, Rayneval met Lord 16. Grantham. Nothing could be more decided than his refusal to treat about Gibraltar. On the seventeenth, 17. in bidding farewell to Rayneval, Shelburne said, in the most serious tone and the most courteous manner: have been deeply touched by everything you have said to me about the character of the king of France, his principles of justice and moderation, his love of peace. I wish, not only to re-establis