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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 20: (search)
ssia on the terms which that empire had proposed. Yorke to Stormont, 7 Nov., 1780. Just after this interview, Yorke received from Stormont an inquiry as to where blows could be struck at the republic with the most profit, and on the seventh of November Yorke replied: This 7. country is by no means prepared for war. It is the fashion still to suppose a war against England impossible. The executive part of the government has been averse to it all along. As to the Dutch settlements in thd two hundred ships of the republic, carrying cargoes worth fifteen millions of guilders. Four days at least before he left the Hague, a swift cutter was sent to Rodney at Barbadoes with orders, founded upon the ambassador's letter of the seventh of November, to seize St. Eustatius. Suddenly, on the third of February, 1781, the 1781. Feb. 3. British West India fleet and army, after a feint on the coasts of Martinique, appeared off the island and demanded of de Graat, the governor, its surr