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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 5: (search)
y dissensions between the minister for America in England and the highest British officials in America, and was fol- Chap. V.} 1778. lowed by never-ending complaints. Lord Carlisle and his associate commissioners deprecated the seeming purpose of enfeebling the establishment at New York by detachments for different and distant services. Under these appearances of weakness, so they reported, our cause has visibly declined. Lord Carlisle and other commissioners to Germain, New York, 5 Sept., 1778. Sir Henry Clinton threatened to evacuate New York and to retire to Halifax, Clinton to Germain, 27 July, 1778. remonstrated against being reduced to a starved defensive, Clinton to Haldimand, 9 Sept., 1778. and complained of being kept in command, a mournful witness of the debility of his army; were he only unshackled with instructions, he might render serious service. Clinton to Germain, 8 Oct., 1778. Every detachment for the southern campaign was made with sullen reluctance;