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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 8: (search)
g on the red men of the prairies, and the white men of Vincennes. The reports sent to Germain made him believe that the inhabitants of that settlement, though a poor people who thought themselves cast off from his Majesty's protection, were firm in their allegiance to defend Fort Sackville against all enemies, and that hundreds in Pittsburgh remained at heart attached to the crown. Abbot (lieutenant-governor of Vincennes) to Germain, 3 April, 1778. On the invasion of Canada in 1775, Carleton, to strengthen the posts of Detroit and Niagara, had Chap. VIII.} 1778. withdrawn the small British garrison from Kaskaskia, and the government was left in the hands of Rocheblave, a Frenchman, who had neither troops nor money. I wish, he wrote in February, 1778, the nation might come to know one of its best possessions, and consent to give it some encouragement; and he entreated Germain that a lieutenant-governor might be sent with a company of soldiers to reside in Illinois. Rochebl
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 26: (search)
ay. In the calm hours of the winter recess, members of the house of commons reasoned dispassionately on the war with their ancient colonists. The king having given up Germain, superseded Sir Henry Clinton by the humane Chap. XXVI.} 1782. Sir Guy Carleton, and owned it impossible to propose great continental operations. The estimates carried by the ministry through parliament for America were limited to defensive measures, and the house could no longer deceive itself as to the hopelessness o 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
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 27: (search)
nvite proposals from Vergennes. Soon after this came a letter from Grenville, in which he argued that, as America had been the road to war with France, so it offered the most practicable way of getting out of it; and the cabinet agreed to a minute almost in his words to propose the independency of America in the first instance, instead of making it a condition of a general treaty. The proposition in the words of Fox was accepted by Shelburne, was embodied by him in his instructions to Sir Guy Carleton at New York, and formed the rule of action for Oswald on his return, with renewed authority, to Paris. Independence was, as the king expressed it, the dreadful price now offered to America for peace. A commission was forwarded to Grenville by Fox to treat with France, but with no other country; yet he devoted nearly all his letter of instructions to the relations with America, showing that in a negotiation for peace the United States ought not to be encumbered by a power like Spain,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 28: (search)
sses; and in the course of the summer six hundred of them or more were sent to America in cartels for exchange. The arrival Chap. XXVIII.} 1782. May 5. of Sir Guy Carleton at New York to supersede Clinton was followed by consistent clemency. He desired that hostilities of all kinds might be stayed. He treated captives always d that the Carolinians who had been exiled in violation of the capitulation of Charleston might have leave to return to their native state under a flag of truce, Carleton answered that they should be sent back at the cost of the king of England; and that everything should be done to make them forget the hardships which they had entwo hundred Ottawas, and seventy Chippeways came in the summer to St. Johns on the Chambly, ready to make a raid into the state of New York. They were told from Carleton to bury their hatchets and their tomahawks. Acting under the orders of Greene in Georgia, Feb. Wayne, by spirited manoeuvres, succeeded in wresting the state