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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, The American revolution. (search)
ed his administration. Besides, many men of honest intentions, neither wishing to see English liberties impaired, nor yet to consent to the independence of the colonies, kept their minds in a state of suspense; and this reluctance to decide led them to bear a little longer the ministry which alone professed ability to suppress the insurrection: for better men would not consent to take their places coupled with the condition of continuing their policy. Once in a moment of petulance Lord George Germain resigned; and the king, who wished to be rid of him, regarded his defection as a most favorable event. King to Lord North, 8 March, 1778. But he was from necessity continued in his office, because no one else could be found willing to accept it. In the great kingdom on the other side of the channel, antagonistic forces were likewise in action. As the representative of popular power, France had in reserve one great advantage over England in her numerous independent peasantry. B
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 4: (search)
der. Nothing saved him from reprobation in England but that Lord George Germain had made mistakes still graver than his own. Meantime Lorntly constituted. In the certainty that it would not be received, Germain had given orders for the prosecution of the war, and on a different plan, Most secret instructions of Lord George Germain to Sir H. Clinton, Whitehall, 8 March, 1778. such as a consciousness of weakness mig for ship-building. At the same time the Indians, from Detroit Germain's Canada Correspondence, passim. all along the frontiers of the west and south Lord George Germain to General Prevost, Whitehall, 13 March, 1779. to Florida, were to be hounded on to spread Chap. IV.} 1structions to the commissioners from the king, 12 April, 1778; and Germain to the commissioners of the same date. and on their submission to nd to their extreme surprise and chagrin Commissioners to Lord George Germain, Philadelphia, 15 June, 1778, and particularly postscript by
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 5: (search)
r path, was lightly esteemed. Haldimand to Germain, 15 Sept., 1779. Brandt was not at Wyoming. had burned a thousand houses and every mill; Germain in reply extolled their prowess and even their humanity, Lord George Germain to Sir Clinton, 4 Nov., 1778. and resolved on directing a succesninth of July, while Clinton was reporting to Germain that he would probably be under the necessitytiring to Halifax, Sir H. Clinton to Lord George Germain, 27 July, 1778. the French fleet, with o the king to disavow the declaration. Lord George Germain defended it, insisting that the Americahe states to the south of the Susquehanna. Germain to Clinton, 8 March, 1778. For this end the B. Lord Carlisle and other commissioners to Germain, New York, 5 Sept., 1778. Sir Henry Clinton t York and to retire to Halifax, Clinton to Germain, 27 July, 1778. remonstrated against being ree might render serious service. Clinton to Germain, 8 Oct., 1778. Every detachment for the south[1 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 7: (search)
very little of this moderate assessment reached the national treasury, and there was no resource but in new emissions of notes and loan certificates. Private reports from American refugees, seeking the favor of the king of England, persuaded Germain that the cause of the United States would share the wreck of their finances: but he knew not how to conciliate provinces that were weary of war, nor to measure the tenacity of the passive resistance of a determined people; and systematically sou own interests, and raised for Lord Rawdon a large regiment in which officers and men were exclusively Irish. Among them were nearly five hundred deserters from the American army. Yet the British general lagged far behind the requirements of Germain, who counted upon ten thousand provincial levies, and wished that the war should be carried on in a manner better calculated to make the people feel their distresses. The king believed in the hourly declension of the rebellion, and that the col
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 8: (search)
vailed at Detroit of danger to the settlements in the Illinois, Hamilton to Germain, 14 July, 1777, and Ibid., 27 July, 1777. but only from the Spanish side of thse as the best proofs of their attachment to British interests. Hamilton to Germain, 7 June, 1778. Sure of their aid, he schemed attempts against the rebel forts 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 peopleat heart attached to the crown. Abbot (lieutenant-governor of Vincennes) to Germain, 3 April, 1778. On the invasion of Canada in 1775, Carleton, to strengthe 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. Rocheblave to Germain, 28 Feb., 1778. On the passage down the Ohio, Clark was overtaken by news of the alliance with France. Having learned from
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 13: (search)
thern campaign of 1778 was Chap. XIII.} 1778. prepared by Germain with great minuteness of detail. Pensacola was to be stre to preserve the communication with the Indian nations. Germain to the officer commanding in West Florida, 1 July, 1778. Fleston; and, on the landing of a small corps at Cape Fear, Germain believed that large numbers of the inhabitants would doubtouth of the Susquehanna would return to its allegiance. Germain to Clinton, most secret, 8 March, 1778. Sir Henry Clinton No victory was ever Chap. XIII.} 1778. more complete; but Germain was not satisfied, for no Indian parties had been called to take part in the expedition. Germain to Prevost, 13 March, 1779. Compare Ibid., 8 March, 1779. Flushed with his raption of the king and his ministers. The instructions from Germain authorized the confiscation and sale not only of negroes e and took sanctuary under British jurisdiction. Compare Germain to Governor Wright, 19 Jan., 1780. Many of them were shipp
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 14: (search)
had no knowledge of its existence. On the third of June, Clinton, by a proclamation 3. which he alone signed, cut up British authority in Carolina by the roots. He required all the inhabitants of the province, even those outside of Charleston who were now prisoners on parole, to take an active part in securing the royal government. Should they neglect to return to their allegiance, so ran the proclamation, they will be treated as rebels to the government of the king. He never reflected that many who accepted protection from fear or convenience did so in the expectation of living in a state of neutrality, and that they might say: If we must fight, let us fight on the side of our friends, of our countrymen, of America. On the eve of his departure for New York, he reported to Germain: The inhabitants from every quarter declare their allegiance to the king, and offer their services in arms. There are few men in South Carolina who are not either our prisoners or in arms with us.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 15: (search)
Chapter 15: War in the South: Cornwallis and Gates. 1780. rivalry and dissension between Clinton and Corn- Chap. XV.} 1780. wallis already glowed under the ashes. The formerhad written home more of truth than was willingly listened to; and, though he clung with tenacity to his commission, he intimated conditionally a wish to be recalled. Germain took him so far at his word as to give him leave to transfer to Cornwallis, the new favorite, the chief command in North America. All opposition in South Carolina was for the moment at an end, when Cornwallis entered on his separate command. He proposed to himself no less than to keep possession of all that had been gained, and to advance as a conqueror at least to the Chesapeake. Clinton had left with him more than five thousand effective troops, besides more than a thousand in Georgia; to these were to be added the regiments which he was determined to organize out of the southern people. As fast as the districts submi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 16: (search)
from the moment of his victory near Camden, Chap. XVI.} 1780. Cornwallis became the principal figure in the British service in America,—the pride and delight of Germain, the desired commander-in-chief, the one man on whom rested the hopes of the ministry for the successful termination of the war. His friends disparaged the abilitruin him. No engagement by proclamation or by capitulation was respected. The ruthless administration of Cornwallis met the hearty and repeated applause of Lord George Germain, who declared himself convinced that to punish rebellion would have the best consequences. As to the rebels, his orders to Clinton and Cornwallis were: Germain to Clinton, 9 Nov., 1780. No good faith or justice is to be expected from them, and we ought in all our transactions with them to act upon that supposition. In this manner the minister released his generals from their pledges Chap. XVI.} 1780. to those on whom they made war. In violation of agreements, the continental
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 18: (search)
plot received the warmest encouragement from Lord George Germain, who, towards the end of 1779. September, wre expense will be cheerfully submitted to. Lord George Germain to Clinton, 27 Sept., 1779. Extract. It willer would be a most marvellous instance of harmony. Germain was, no doubt, cognizant of the plot; for Clinton, he brim. Thus ended, so he wrote in his anguish to Germain, this proposed plan from which I had conceived suched against his patron as wanting activity, assuring Germain that the American posts in the Highlands might be crt of inquiry; Clinton's elaborate letters to Lord George Germain of 11 and 12 Oct., 1780; Narrative of corresp letter of 11 Oct., 1780; Two letters of Clinton to Germain of 12 Oct., 1780; Clinton's secret letter of 30 Octquiescent approval, and which he forwarded to Lord George Germain: I have ordered in the most positive manner t order by the British government appears from Lord George Germain's answer, of which an extract follows: The mo
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