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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 18: (search)
est forbearance. The French minister, to whom Arnold applied for money, put aside his request and armation from Clinton of the having gained over Arnold. Otherwise, the letter would be a most marvelported by the New York delegation in congress, Arnold, pleading his wounds as an excuse for declininral Rochambeau. He was joined on the river by Arnold, who accompanied him as far as Peekskill, and st Indies. On the evening of the eighteenth, Arnold, giving information that Washing- Chap. XVIII a boat and a flag of truce. This letter of Arnold reached Clinton on Tuesday 19. evening, and hto its captain that he was ready to attend General Arnold's summons when and where he pleased. Thup to Chap. XVIII.} 1780. Sept. 23. dine with Arnold at his quarters. At a fork in the road about scrupulous delicacy. Hamilton's Account of Arnold's Affair, in Works, i. 176. Andre further wrot has no date: since it enclosed his account of Arnold's affair, sent in compliance with a promise, i[21 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 23: (search)
ck into South Carolina; the defeat at the Cowpens made his second invasion of North Carolina a desperate enterprise; the battle at Guilford courthouse transformed the American army into pursuers, the British into fugitives. Virginia furnished to the army that fought at Guilford sixteen hundred and ninety-three of her militia, and seven hundred and seventy-eight of her continental troops. The great reenforce-ments, wrote Cornwallis to Germain, sent by Virginia to General Greene whilst General Arnold was in the Chesapeake, are convincing proofs that small Chap. XXIII.} 1781. March 15. expeditions do not frighten that powerful province. Commis. Clinton, Cornwallis, 50. This display of the magnanimity of Virginia was due to its great advisers. Your state, wrote Washington to Jefferson, its governor, will experience more molestation in future; but the evils from these predatory incursions are not to be compared to the injury of the common cause. I am persuaded the attention t
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
81. Jan. 2. the Chesapeake Bay, and on the second of January, 1781, Arnold, with sixteen hundred men, appeared by his order in the James riverct of attack, kept his small force on the south side of the river. Arnold offered to spare Richmond if he might unmolested carry off its storpublic and private, 6. were set on fire. In the hope of capturing Arnold and his corps, Washington detached Lafayette with about twelve hundrteenth of May, General Phillips died May 13. of malignant fever. Arnold, on whom the command devolved, though only for seven days, addresseed it with scorn, refusing to correspond with a traitor; upon which Arnold threatened to send to the Antilles all American prisoners, unless atersburg; and, to free his camp of one whom he despised, he ordered Arnold back to New York. Clinton had little reason to be satisfied with; about forty were carried off as prisoners. With this expedition, Arnold disappears from history. Cornwallis now found himself where he h
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 26: (search)
gotiation which was to bring a breathing time to the world. Franklin had rightly divined the future, and his overture arrived most opportunely. Shelburne, as the elder secretary of state, having his choice, elected the home department, which then included America; so that he had by right the direction of all measures relating to the United States. On the fourth of April, April 4. he instructed Sir Guy Carleton to proceed to New York with all possible expedition; and he would not suffer Arnold to return to the land which he had bargained to betray. On the same day he had an Chap. XXVI.} 1782. April. interview with Laurens, then in England, as a prisoner on parole; and having learned of him the powers of the American commissioners, before evening he selected for his diplomatic agent with them Richard Oswald of Scotland. The king, moved by the acceptable part which Shelburne had acted in the whole negotiation for forming the present administration, departed from his purpose of