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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
und his death-bed. The joy at court penetrated the whole people, and the name of Lafayette was pronounced with veneration. History, said Vergennes, offers few examples of a success so complete. All the wild agree, wrote Franklin to Washington, that no expedition was ever better planned or better executed. It brightens the glory that must accompany your name to the latest posterity. The first tidings of the surrender of Cornwallis reached England from France, about noon on the twenty-fifth of November. It is all over, said 25. Lord North many times, under the deepest agitation and distress. Fox—to whom, in reading history, the defeats of armies of invaders, from Xerxes' time downwards, gave the greatest satisfaction—heard of the capitulation of Yorktown with wild delight. He hoped that it might become the principle of all mankind that power resting on armed force is invidious, detestable, weak, and tottering. The official report from Sir Henry Clinton was received the same da
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 29: (search)
. To the ministry, it was clear that peace, if to be made at all, must be made before the coming together of parliament, which had been summoned for the twenty-fifth of November. While the under-secretary of state was sent to re-enforce Oswald, the American commission was recruited by the arrival of John Adams. He had Chap.justice, think to obtain rights attached to the condition of subjects which they renounce? France would not prolong the war to secure to the Chap. XXIX.} 1782. Nov. 25. Americans the back lands and the fisheries; the Americans were still less bound to continue the war to obtain Gibraltar for Spain. 25. Early in the morning of future confiscations nor prosecutions of loyalists; that all pending prosecutions should be discontinued; and that congress should recommend Chap. XXIX.} 1782. Nov. 25. to the several states and their legislatures, on behalf of the refugees, amnesty and the restitution of their confiscated property. Strachey thought this articl