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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, The American revolution. (search)
independence of the colonies, kept their minds in a state of suspense; and this reluctance to decide led them to bear a little longer the ministry which alone professed ability to suppress the insurrection: for better men would not consent to take their places coupled with the condition of continuing their policy. Once in a moment of petulance Lord George Germain resigned; and the king, who wished to be rid of him, regarded his defection as a most favorable event. King to Lord North, 8 March, 1778. But he was from necessity continued in his office, because no one else could be found willing to accept it. In the great kingdom on the other side of the channel, antagonistic forces were likewise in action. As the representative of popular power, France had in reserve one great advantage over England in her numerous independent peasantry. Brought up in ignorance and seclusion, they knew not how to question anything that was taught by the church or commanded by the monarch; and, ho
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 4: (search)
Burke, III. 372. The third was Johnstone, who had lately in parliament justified the Americans and charged the king with hypocrisy. There never was any expectation on the part of the ministry that the commission would be successful, or it would have been differently constituted. In the certainty that it would not be received, Germain had given orders for the prosecution of the war, and on a different plan, Most secret instructions of Lord George Germain to Sir H. Clinton, Whitehall, 8 March, 1778. such as a consciousness of weakness might inspire in a cruel and revengeful mind. Clinton was ordered to abandon Philadelphia; to hold New York and Rhode Island; to curtail the boundaries of the thirteen states on the north-east and on the south; to lay waste Virginia by means of ships of war; and to attack Providence, Boston, and all accessible ports between New York and Nova Scotia, destroying vessels, wharfs, stores, and materials for ship-building. At the same time the Indians, fr
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 5: (search)
d be again brought forward, Rawlins Lowndes, the newly elected president, gave his sanction to the re-enacted bill. Richard Hutson to George Bryan, from Charleston, S. C., 14 March, 1778. John Rutledge to Henry Laurens, 16 Feb., 1778, and 8 March, 1778. In F. Moore's Materials for History, 94, 103-106. Ramsay's History of South Carolina, i. 129-138. The new constitution might be altered by legislative authority after a notice of ninety days. None but freeholders could elect or be elecouth Carolina still partook of their usual pastimes and cares; while the British ministry, resigning the hope of reducing the north, indulged the expectation of conquering all the states to the south of the Susquehanna. Germain to Clinton, 8 March, 1778. For this end the British commander-in-chief at New York was ordered to despatch before October, if possible, a thousand men to re-enforce Pensacola, and three thousand to take Savannah. Two thousand more were destined as a re-enforcement to
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 13: (search)
additional men were at a later date to be sent to take Charleston; and, on the landing of a small corps at Cape Fear, Germain believed that large numbers of the inhabitants would doubtless flock to the standard of the king, whose government would be restored in North Carolina. Then, by proper diversions in Virginia and Maryland, he said it might not be too much to expect that all America to the south of the Susquehanna would return to its allegiance. Germain to Clinton, most secret, 8 March, 1778. Sir Henry Clinton was no favorite of the minister's; these brilliant achievements were designed for Cornwallis. During the autumn of 1778, two expeditions were sent out by Prevost from East Florida. They were composed in part of regulars; the rest were vindictive refugees from Georgia and South Carolina, called troopers, though having only a few horses that were kept to go plundering into Georgia. Brown, their commander, held directly from the governor of East Florida the rank of lie