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Portsmouth, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
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
Hudson (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
the American general called upon the governors of the four New England states, in earnest and pointed terms, to complete their continental battalions, to hold bodies of militia ready to march in a week after being called for, and to adopt effective modes of supply. Governor Trumbull, of Connecticut, cheered him with the opinion that he would obtain all that he needed. In June, the French contingent, increased by fifteen hundred men, newly arrived in ships of war, left Newport for the Hudson river. The inhabitants crowded around them on their march, glad to recognise in them allies and defenders, and, mingling at their encampments with officers and soldiers, listened with delight to the bands of their regiments. The rights of private property were most scrupulously respected, and the petty exigencies of local laws good-naturedly submitted to. Cornwallis began his career in Virginia by seizing the fine horses on the James river, and mounting a Chap. XXV.} 1781. gallant and mo
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 26
ut three thousand men. Clinton's letter of the eleventh expressed his fear of being attacked in New York by more than twenty thousand; there was, he said, no possibility of re-establishing order in Virginia, so general was the disaffection to Great Britain. Cornwallis should therefore take a defensive situation in any healthy station he might choose, be it at Williamsburg or Yorktown. On the fifteenth, he added: I do not think it advisable to leave more troops in that unhealthy climate at thio the river so as to narrow its width to one mile. These were occupied by Cornwallis, and fortified with the utmost diligence; though in his deliberate judgment the measure promised no honor to Chap. XXV.} 1781. himself, and no advantage to Great Britain. On the other hand, Lafayette, concentrating his forces in a strong position at a distance of about eight miles, indulged in the happiest prophecies, and wrote on the twenty-fourth of August to Maurepas: I Aug. 24. owe you so much gratitu
Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
less of destructive fury. In the march of the British army from Elk Hill down the river to Williamsburg, where it arrived on the twenty-fifth of June, all dwelling-houses were plundered. The trustlong travels had only taught him that the bulk of the people were bent on independence. At Williamsburg, to his amazement and chagrin, he received from his chief orders to send back about three tho should therefore take a defensive situation in any healthy station he might choose, be it at Williamsburg or Yorktown. On the fifteenth, he added: I do not think it advisable to leave more troops ind republic. Two days were given to domestic life. On the fourteenth, the party arrived at Williamsburg, where 14. Lafayette, recalling the moment when in France the poor rebels were held in lighto secure an important general good. The troops from the north having been safely landed at Williamsburg, on the twenty-eighth the 28. united armies marched for the investiture of Yorktown, drove e
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 26
courier from Washington, Lafayette received information that Virginia was about to become the centre of active operations, and was instructed to defend the state as well as the weakness of his means would permit. His troops were chiefly from New England, and dreaded the unwholesome and unknown climate of lower Virginia. Besides, they were destitute of every thing. To prevent deser- April. tion, Lafayette, as soon as he found himself on the south side of the Susquehanna, in an order of the ighest power in the northern and southern departments in the hands of Washington, and France had magnanimously placed her troops as auxiliaries under his command. Before his return, the American general called upon the governors of the four New England states, in earnest and pointed terms, to complete their continental battalions, to hold bodies of militia ready to march in a week after being called for, and to adopt effective modes of supply. Governor Trumbull, of Connecticut, cheered him
Clinton, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
amazement and chagrin, he received from his chief orders to send back about three thousand men. Clinton's letter of the eleventh expressed his fear of being attacked in New York by more than twenty td now that Cornwallis was thoroughly cured of his own presumptuous delusions, they came back to Clinton in the shape of orders from the American secretary, who dwelt on the vast importance of the occne: The rapidity of your movements is justly June 6. matter of astonishment to all Europe. To Clinton he repeated in the same month: Lord Cornwallis's opinion entirely coincides with mine; and on t not secure ships at anchor in Hampton roads. To General Phillips on his embarkation in April, Clinton's words had been: With regard to a station for the protection of the king's ships, I know of nooper as Yorktown. Answer, 175. Nothing therefore remained but, in obedience to the spirit of Clinton's orders, to seize and fortify York and Gloucester. Answer, 174. Cornwallis accordingly, in
Auvergne (France) (search for this): chapter 26
ent, the Count de Deux Ponts raised the cry of Vive le roi, which was repeated by all of his companions who were able to lift their voices. De Sireuil, a very young captain of yagers, who had been wounded twice before, was now wounded for the third time and mortally. Within six minutes, the redoubt was mastered and manned; but in that short time nearly one hundred of the assailants were killed or wounded. Louis the Sixteenth distinguished the regiment of Gatinois by naming it the Royal Auvergne. Washington acknowledged the emulous courage, intrepidity, coolness, and firmness of the attacking troops. On that night victory twined double garlands around the banners Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vive la France. of France and America. By the unwearied labor of the French and Americans, both redoubts were included in the second parallel in the night of their capture. Just before the break of day of the sixteenth, the British made a 16. sortie upon a part of the second parallel and sp
Lynnhaven Bay (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
s entered into their souls, and became a part of their nature. On the fifth of September, they encamped at Chester. Never had the Chap. XXV.} 1781. Aug. 30. French seen a man penetrated with a livelier or more manifest joy than Washington when he there learned that, on the last day but one in August, the Count de Grasse with twenty-eight ships of the line, and nearly four thousand land troops, had entered the Chesapeake, where, without loss of time, he had moored most of the fleet in Lynnhaven bay, blocked up York river, and, without being in the least annoyed by Cornwallis, had disembarked at James island three thousand men under the command of the Marquis de St. Simon. Here too prevailed unanimity. St. Simon, though older in military service as well as in years, placed himself and his troops as auxiliaries under the orders of Lafayette, because he was a major-general in the service of the United States. The combined army in their encampment could be approached only by two pas
Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
rty was not equal to the loss in skirmishes on the route and from the heats of midsummer. From his camp on Malvern Hill, Lafayette urged Washington to march to Virginia in force, and he predicted in July that if a French fleet should enter Hampton roads the English army must surrender. In like manner, on the eighth of the same month, Cornwallis, in reply to Clinton, reasoned earnestly against a defensive post in the Chesapeake. It cannot have the smallest influence on the war in Carolina: od, the special value that it offered in the last resort the chance of an escape into the Carolinas. The engineers, after careful and extensive surveys, reported unanimously, that a work on Point Comfort would not secure ships at anchor in Hampton roads. To General Phillips on his embarkation in April, Clinton's words had been: With regard to a station for the protection of the king's ships, I know of no place so proper as Yorktown. Answer, 175. Nothing therefore remained but, in obedien
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
ce which its planters in five quiet years had accumulated were now carried off or destroyed. Their negroes, so desired in the West Indies, formed the staple article of plunder. By a courier from Washington, Lafayette received information that Virginia was about to become the centre of active operations, and was instructed to defend the state as well as the weakness of his means would permit. His troops were chiefly from New England, and dreaded the unwholesome and unknown climate of lower Virginia. Besides, they were destitute of every thing. To prevent deser- April. tion, Lafayette, as soon as he found himself on the south side of the Susquehanna, in an order of the day, offered leave to any of them to return to the north; and not one would abandon him. At Baltimore he borrowed two thousand pounds sterling, supplied his men with shoes and hats, and bought linen, which the women of Baltimore made into summer garments. Then, by a forced march of two hundred miles, he arrived at
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