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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 10: (search)
ealthy rebels by their execution or exile. The Virginians, since the expulsion of Lord Dunmore, free from war within their own borders, were enriching themselves by the unmolested culture of tobacco, which was exported through the Chesapeake; or, when that highway was unsafe, by a short land carriage to Albemarle Sound. On the ninth of May, Chap. X.} 1779 May 9. two thousand men under General Matthew, with fivehundred marines, anchored in Hampton Roads. The next day, after occupying Portsmouth and Norfolk, they burned every house but one in Suffolk county, and plundered or ruined all perishable property. The women and unarmed men were given over to violence and death. Parties from a sloop of war and privateers entered the principal waters of the Chesapeake, carried off or wasted stores of tobacco heaped on their banks, and burned the dwellings of the planters. Before the end of the month, the predatory expedition, having destroyed more than a hundred vessels, arrived at New Y
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 12: (search)
Dutch flagship. The ship was hit, but no one was killed or wounded. Let us go down, said the Dutch crews to one another, rather than fall into a shameful captivity. But their admiral, considering that the British force was more than three times greater than his own, after returning the broadside, struck his flag. Account of the Rencontre, le Sieur de Schonberg, lieutenant of marines on board the flagship by of Count de Bylandt. Fielding carried the five merchant ships as prizes into Portsmouth. This outrage on the Netherlands tended to rouse Chap. XII.} 1779. and unite all parties and all provinces. Everywhere in Europe, and especially in Petersburg, it was the subject of conversation; and the conduct of the Dutch was watched with the intensest curiosity. Swart, minister at Petersburg, to the states-general, 1 and 4 Feb., 1780. But another power beside England had disturbed neutral rights. Fearing that supplies might be carried to Gibraltar, Spain had given an order to
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 20: (search)
the worst forms of haughty blindness to moral distinctions in dealing with foreign powers. To the complaints of the Dutch respecting the outrage on their flag, he answered by interpreting treaties directly contrary to their plain meaning, and then by saying: We are determined to persist in the line of conduct we have taken, be the consequences what they may. Stormont to Yorke, 11 Jan., 1780. The British ministry sent the case of the Dutch merchant vessels that had been carried into Portsmouth to the court of admiralty; and Sir James Mariott, the judge, thus laid down the law: It imports little whether the blockade be made across the narrows at Dover, or off the harbor at Brest or L'Orient. If you are taken, you are blocked. Great Chap. XX.} 1780. Britain, by her insular position, blocks naturally all the ports of Spain and France. She has a right to avail herself of this position as a gift of Providence. Dip. Cor., IV. 473. Influenced by the preponderating members of th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
citly to submit, was the answer of Cornwallis to the orders of Clinton; and on the fourth of July he began his march to Portsmouth. On that day, the royal army arrived near James island, and in the evening the advanced guard reached the opposite banoposed are occupied and established. It never was my intention to continue a post on Elizabeth river. Now the post of Portsmouth on Elizabeth river had, as Lafayette and Washington well understood, the special value that it offered in the last resoCornwallis accordingly, in the first week of August, embarked his troops suc- Aug. 1. 2. 8. cessively, and, evacuating Portsmouth, transferred his whole force to Yorktown and Gloucester. Yorktown was then but a small village on a high bank, where tornwallis left the two Carolinas exposed, and General Greene has largely profited by it. Lord Cornwallis has left to us Portsmouth, from which place he was in communication with Carolina, and he now is at York, a very advantageous place for one who h