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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Preface. (search)
tion; the reports of Rayneval from England to Vergennes, repeated in the accounts addressed by Vergennes himself to Montmorin, the French ambassador at Madrid, and to Luzerne, the French minister at Philadelphia. On the British side, I have the official letters of Shelburne and Secretary Townshend, and of every member of the British commission; beside a profusion of the private letters and papers of Shelburne and of Oswald. I have also the private papers, as well as the official ones, of Strachey; and the courtesy of the present head of the family voluntarily gave consent to the unrestricted use of them. The Marquis of Lansdowne, of 1848, was persuaded that no letters existed from George the Third to his father while first minister; but assured me from his father that the king did nothing to obstruct the peace with the United States. Passing lately through London, Lord Edmond FitzMaurice was so good as to inform me that the numerous original letters of the king to Lord Shelburne
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 16: (search)
prisoners, and captured twenty-six of the escort. Colonel Marion, wrote Cornwallis, so wrought on the minds of the people, that there was scarcely an inhabitant between the Pedee and the Santee that was not in arms against us. Some parties even crossed the Santee and carried terror to the gates of Charleston. Balfour, the commandant of Charleston, wrote home: In vain we expected loyalty and attachment from the inhabitants; they are the same stuff as compose all Americans. Balfour to Strachey, 30 Aug., 1780, in Strachey Papers, 79, 80. The British his- Chap. XVI.} 1780. torian of the war, who was then in South Carolina, relates that almost the whole country seemed upon the eve of a revolt. In the second week of September, when the heats Sept. of summer had abated, the earlier cereal grains had been harvested and the maize was nearly ripe, Cornwallis began his projected march. He relied on the loyalists of North Carolina to recruit his army. On his left, Major Patrick Ferg
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 29: (search)
he American commissioners met 30. Oswald and Strachey, and for four several days they discussed theexceedingly on having gained this concession, Strachey wrote to the secretary of state that Jay and an break off the treaty upon such a point. Strachey to secretary of state, Private, Calais, 8 Nov to join with him in letters to Oswald and to Strachey, expressing in conciliatory language their untion, Adams, Franklin, and Jay met Oswald and Strachey at Oswald's lodgings. Strachey opened the paStrachey opened the parley by an elaborate speech, in which he explained the changes in the article on the fisheries, and swald could now conclude the treaty; and 28. Strachey answered that he could, absolutely. Jay desiussion was continued. On the twenty-ninth, Strachey, Oswald, and Fitzherbert, on the one side, ane restitution of their confiscated property. Strachey thought this article better than any of the mitish dominions in America. At this stage, Strachey and Fitzherbert gave the opinion that it woul[7 more...]