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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 15 15 Browse Search
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 15 15 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 13 13 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 19: (search)
ess made not even a semblance of direct action, and could only entreat the states to correspond severally with its committee at headquarters, so that it might explicitly know how far they could be relied on to furnish the men and money and provisions that had been called for. The legislature of Pennsylvania, before its adjournment, vested large discretionary powers in its president; but these from motives of prudence he declined to use. It remained to be seen what private efforts could do. In June, steps were June. taken at Philadelphia for founding a bank with power to issue notes. The subscribers proposed, but only on adequate security, to make purchases in advance for the suffering soldiers. Congress accepted the proffered aid, and further resolved to advance to the company as much of its paper money as could be spared from other services. Thus began the deposit of funds of the United States with a bank. Throughout the war, the women of America never grew weary of yielding up
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 20: (search)
ships had been seized. The republic had no part to choose but submission to Great Britain or an association with Russia. The draft of the convention which the empress had directed to be offered to Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands, arrived in June. The grand pensionary and the country wished to accede to the confederacy of the North. But the stadholder, who in May, acting in the interests of England, refused to take a step till the conduct of all the other neutral powers should be thoroughly understood, in June would not listen to June 16. any treaty with Russia unless the possessions of the republic in both Indies should be guaranteed. A better idea, wrote Yorke, could not be started to overset the whole. Yorke to Stormont, 16 June, 1780. Yet Stormont, who on this subject guided the cabinet of England, wrote to the British ambassador at the Hague: If the states-general proceed, they throw the die and leave us no alternative; Stormont to Yorke, 8 Aug., 1780. and he
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
tinental 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 theirrth is to be considered as the chief and principal object for the employment of all the forces under your command which can be spared from the defence of the places in his Majesty's possession. On Cornwallis he heaped praises, writing to him in June: 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 the seventh of July: The detachments sent to Virgini
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 28: (search)
ost after post and redoubt after redoubt, until they were completely shut up in Savan- May 21. nah. A body of British cavalry and infantry went out four miles from Savannah to escort a strong party of Creeks and Choctaws into the town. In the following night, he threw himself with inferior force between them and Savannah, and, attacking them by surprise, totally defeated and dispersed them. At Sharon, five miles from Savannah, at half-past 1 in the morning of the twenty-fourth June 24. of June, a numerous horde of Creek warriors, headed by their ablest chiefs and a British officer, surprised Chap. XXVIII.} 1782. June. the camp of Wayne, and for a few moments were masters of his artillery. Wayne marshalled his troops, and, under a very heavy fire of small-arms and hideous yells of the savages, attacked them in front and flank with the sword and bayonet alone. The Indians resisted the onset with ferocity heightened by their momentary success. With his own hand Wayne struck down
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