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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 9: (search)
nconsistent with the interests of the latter power; and he formally declared, that his king would not prolong the war one single day to secure to the United States the possessions which they Chap. IX.} 1779. coveted. Gerard to Vergennes, 28 Jan., 1779. Besides; the extent of their territory rendered already a good administration difficult: so enormous an increase would cause their immense empire to crumble under its own weight. Ibid. Gerard terminated his very long conversation by ds Canada should one day be received as the fourteenth. The president of congress, still confiding in the triple alliance, avowed himself content with the boundary of the colonies at the breaking out of the revolution, Gerard to Vergennes, 28 Jan., 1779, and compare Ibid., 19 Sept., 1778. and the French minister did not doubt of success in extorting the concessions required by Spain. On the fifteenth of February, Gerard in a private Feb. 15. audience represented to congress that the price