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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 18: (search)
nd a lieutenant. From Elizabethtown Point the fruitless expedition crossed to Staten Island by a bridge of boats, which at midnight was taken away. Clinton was never again to have so good an opportunity for offensive operations as that which he had now rejected. On the return of d'estaing from America, he urged the French ministry to send twelve thousand men to the United States, as the best way of pursuing the war actively; and Lafayette had of his own motion given the like advice to Vergennes, with whom he had formed relations of friendship. The cabinet adopted the measure in its principle, but vacillated as to the number of the French contingent. For the command Count de Rochambeau was selected, not by court favor, but from the consideration in which he was held by the troops. Goltz to Frederic, 3 March, 1780. On the tenth of July, Admiral de Ternay with a squadron of ten Chap. XVIII.} 1780. July 10. ships of war, three of them ships of the line, convoyed the detachment
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 19: (search)
or had, under the seal of the commonwealth, notified the French minister at Philadelphia of the act. On this procedure, Vergennes in September instructed the French minister at Phil- Sept. adelphia in these words: During the war it is essential botay every state will be found separately connected with us, whatever may be the fortune of the general confederation. Vergennes to Luzerne, 27 Sept., 1779. Maryland was the only other state to take notice of treaties, and it did no more than ahe officers of the staff it returned to salaries instead of commissions. Gerard, in reporting the cost of the war to Vergennes, writes: L'Intendant de l'arinee ou quartier-maitre General a cinq % sur totes ses depenses, et ses agens ont autant. casion to contract. To Franklin he wrote in the same strain; and Lafayette addressed a like memorial of ripe wisdom to Vergennes. While the United States thus importuned a foreign prince for help, their people, in proportion to numbers, was rich
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 20: (search)
of Orange. I am as much attached to that family as a man can be, wrote Stormont; but he would not let any sentiments of veneration and attachment bias his opinion or retard extreme measures. Ibid., 19 Sept., 1780. The commissioners for the Netherlands found in Panin a statesman who regarded the independence of America as a result very advantageous for all nations and especially for Russia, and who did not doubt that England would be forced to recognise it. The Marquis de Verac to Vergennes, 1 Sept., 1780. He could not grant the wished — for guarantee of the Dutch possessions in America, at the Cape of Good Hope, and in India; but in the course of September he drafted the Sept. convention which he held to be the only possible one between Russia and the republic. Ibid., 12 Sept., 1780. The draft did not include a general guarantee; but, if the republic should be attacked on account of the convention, the other powers were to take her part. A separate article declared the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 21: (search)
need of peace. 1780, 1781. England, said Vergennes, has declared war Chap. XXI.} 1780. againstthing for a single campaign. Montmorin to Vergennes, 13 May, 1780. The invasion of England havinEngland. With regard to the United States, Vergennes always maintained that Chap. XXI.} 1780. Frthem up to helpless anarchy. Montmorin to Vergennes, 22 Feb., 1780. He would not receive Jay as ng to their own judgments and inclinations. Vergennes broke off correspondence with him, as not beweakness. I will express no opinion, said Vergennes, of Necker, in January, 1781, on his financi1781. The negotiations for peace belonged to Vergennes, and for their success he needed mediation oea. There are none but the mediators, wrote Vergennes, who could make to the United States so grie the independence of the thirteen states. Vergennes to Luzerne, 1 Feb., 1781. Kaunitz, accordingeace congress at Vienna, adopted the idea of Vergennes that the United States should be represented[11 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 24: (search)
and the close, stiff branches of the stubborn trees made the cavalry useless. Colonel Washington himself, after his glorious share in the campaign, at the last moment of this last encounter, was wounded, disabled, and taken prisoner. So there were at Eutaw two successive engagements. In the first, Greene won brilliantly and with little loss; in the second, he sustained a defeat, with the death or capture of many of his bravest men. C'est une grande science de savoir s'arreter à temps. Vergennes to Lafayette, 1 Oct., 1781, commenting on the events of the day. In the two engagements, the Americans lost in killed, wounded, and missing, five hundred and fifty-four men; they took five hundred prisoners, including the wounded; and the total loss of the British approached one thousand. The cause of the United States was the cause of Ireland. Among the fruits of the battles of the former was the recovery for the latter of her equal rights in trade and legislation. Yet such is the sad
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
parated by five hundred miles from every other corps and without any resources, I am to oppose the projects of the court of St. James and the fortunes of Lord Cornwallis. Thus far we have encountered no disaster. On the same day, his words to Vergennes were: In pursuance of the immense plan of his court, Lord Cornwallis 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 Carolinount de Maurepas were running out; but he could still recognise de Lauzun, and the tidings threw a halo round 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. T
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 26: (search)
unanimity, leave was the next day granted to bring in a bill, enabling the king to make a peace or a truce with America. The bill for that purpose was accord- Chap. XXVI.} 1782. March 4. ingly brought in by the ministers; but more than two and a half months passed away before it became a law under their successors, in an amended form. Forth, who in the time of Stormont had been secretary of embassy at Paris, repaired to France as the agent of the expiring administration, to parley with Vergennes on conditions of peace, which did not essentially differ from those of Necker in a former year. To anticipate any half-way change of ministry, Fox, in the debate of the fourth, denounced Lord North and his colleagues as men void of honor and honesty, a coalition with any one of them as an infamy; but three days later he qualified his words in favor of Lord Thurlow. In the majesty of upright intention, William Pitt, now in his great days, which were the days of his youth, stood aloof fr
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 27: (search)
French ambassador reported to him the proposal of Vergennes to constitute its inhabitants an independent repubhe allowed himself to be introduced by Franklin to Vergennes, who received with pleasure assurances of the goodes of Great Britain at the court of Versailles. Vergennes received Grenville most cordially as the nephew oft from France to the Americans to revolt; to which Vergennes answered with warmth that France had found and notext day, Grenville, unaccompanied by Franklin, met Vergennes and de Aranda, and offered peace on the basis of td States and the treaty of 1763. That treaty, said Vergennes, I can never read without a shudder. The king, myead the wishes of Franklin, which were seconded by Vergennes, thought it best to let Oswald remain at Paris, saeived, the cabinet agreed to invite proposals from Vergennes. Soon after this came a letter from Grenville, in their independence. When Grenville laid before Vergennes his credentials, he received the answer that they
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 28: (search)
The interview closed with the understanding by Oswald that Franklin was ready to sign the preliminary articles of the treaty so soon as they could be agreed upon. The negotiation was opened and kept up with the knowledge and at the wish of Vergennes; but everything relating to the conditions of peace was withheld from him to the last. So soon as Shelburne saw a prospect of a general pacification, of which he reserved the direction to himself, Fitzherbert, a diplomatist of not much exper plantations of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and the rest, naming them one by one; and Oswald was authorized to treat with the American commissioners under any title which they should, assume, and to exchange with them plenipotentiary powers. Vergennes, who was anxious that there might be no impediment to a general peace, urged upon Jay that the powers of Oswald were sufficient, saying: This acceptance of your powers, in which you are styled commissioners from the United States of America, wi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 29: (search)
IX.} 1782. parole, brought from Shelburne to Vergennes suggestions, which left Spain as the only obland. I trust what you say as much as if Mr. de Vergennes himself were speaking to me, were the wor 14. the fourteenth. Rayneval replied: Count de Vergennes will, without ceasing, preach justice anade accord exactly with those of France; Count de Vergennes thinks that freedom is the soul of commeshould treat otherwise than as independent. Vergennes pressed upon Jay a settlement of claims withm. On the fourteenth of the same 14. month, Vergennes thus explained to the French envoy at Philad of their cause exacts. You know, continued Vergennes, our system with regard to Canada. Everythi influence of France to bend the Americans. Vergennes had especially pleaded with them strongly ine final instructions to Oswald were written, Vergennes declared in a letter to Luzerne: There existhe, soit par rapport à laetendue des limitss Vergennes to Luzerne, 23 Nov., 1782. In spite of all t[3 more...]
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