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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 26: (search)
John Adams had waited more than eight months for an audience of reception, unaided even indirectly by the French ambassador at the Hague, because interference would have pledged France too deeply to the support of the United Chap. XXVI.} 1782. Jan. 9. Provinces, whose complicated form of government promised nothing but embarrassment to an ally. Encouraged by the success at Yorktown, on the ninth of January he presented himself to the president of the states-general, and renewing his formal rninth of January he presented himself to the president of the states-general, and renewing his formal request for an opportunity of presenting his credentials, demanded a categorical answer which he might transmit to his sovereign. He next went in person to the deputies of the several cities of Holland, following the order of their rank in the confederation, and repeated his demand to each one of them. The attention of Europe was drawn to the adventurous and sturdy diplomatist, who dared alone and unsustained to initiate so bold and novel a procedure. Not one of the representatives of foreign