CHAPTER XIII.

Evacuation of Philadelphia.--Battle of Monmouth..

General Lee censured.--General Clinton reaches

New York.- The Count de Estaing arrives there

Repairs to Rhode Island Expedition unsuccessful.

- French Fleet rendezvous at Boston, to refit after

the Damages sustained by a Storm.-Lord Howe

leaves the American Seas.-Marauding Exploits of

General Grey.-Destruction of Wyoming.--Expe-

dition into the Indian Territories.

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CHAPTER XIV.

Foreign Negociations.—Diffensions among the Amer-

ican Commissioners.—Deane recalled.--Mr. Adams

appointed.--Mr. Lee and Mr. Adams recalled.

Spain declares War against England. -Mr. Jay

sent to the Court of Madrid.--Sir George Collier's

Expedition to Virginia-His sudden Recal--Rav-

ages on the North River.--Depredations in the

State of Connecticut, in aid of Governor Tryon and

his Partisans.-General Washington feizes Stoney

Point-Recovered by the British. Penobscot Expe-

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CHAPTER XV.

A Retrospect of some Naval Transactions in the West

Indies, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-

eight, and seventy-nine.--Affairs in Georgia con-

cisely reviewed.—General Lincoln sent to take the

Command at the Southward.— The Count de Er-

taing's Arrival in Georgia.—Savannah closely be-

sieged by the Combined Forces of France and

America-Repulsed by General Prevost.--The

Count de Estaing leaves the Southern Clime.-

The Count Pulaski slain in Georgia. Some Anec-

dotes of Count Kosciulko.

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CHAPTER XVI..

Sir Henry Clinton and Admiral Arbuthnot fail for

South Carolina --Charleston invested-Capitulates.

-General Lincoln and his Army Prisoners of War.

-General Clinton returns to New York.—Lord

Cornwallis's Command and Civil Administration in

Charleston.-Mr. Gadsden and other Gentlemen

suspected, and sent to St. Augustine.—Much Oppo.

sition to British Authority in both the Carolinas.--

The Count de Rochambeau and the Admiral de

Tiernay arrive at Newport.—British Depredations

in the Jerlies.-Catastrophe of Mr. Caldwell and

his family.--Armed Neutrality. Some Observa-

tions on the State of Ireland.-Riots in England.-

Cursory Observations.

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CHAPTER XVII.

Distressed Situation of the Army and the Country,

from various Causes.--General Gates sent to the

Southward-Surprised and defeated at Camden by

Lord Cornwallis--Superseded.--General Greene

appointed to the Command in the Carolinas.--Ma.

jor Ferguson's Defeat.-Sir Henry Clinton makes

a Diversion in the Chesapeake, in favor of Lord

Cornwallis.--General Arnold sent there-His De-

fection and Character.-Detection, Trial, and Death

of Major Andre. -Dispolition of the Dutch Repub-

lic with regard to America. Governor Trumbull's

Character, and Correspondence with the Baron Van

der Capellen. Mr. Laurens appointed to negociate

with the Dutch Republic.

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CHAPTER XVIII.

Revolt of the Pennsylvania Line--Discontents in other

Parts of the Army.-Paper Medium sunk. Some

ađive Movements of Don Bernard de Galvez ia

America.-War between Great Britain and Spain

opened in Europe by the Siege of Gibraltar.--Short

View of Diplomatic Transactions between America

and several European Powers.-Empress of Ruflia

refuses to treat with the American States.

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CHAPTER XIX.

General Gates surrenders the Command of the South-

ern Army to General Greene, on his Arrival in

South Carolina.--Action between General Sumpter

and Colonel Tarleton.-General Morgan's Expedi-

tion-Meets and defeats Colonel Tarleton.---Lord

Cornwallis pursues General Morgan.-Party of

Americans cut off at the Catawba.—Lord Corn-

wallis arrives at Hillsborough-Calls, by Proclama-

tion, on all the Inhabitants of the State to join him,

- Battle of Guilford-Americans defeated.--Lord

Cornwallis marches towards Wilmington—General

Greene pursues him-General Greene returns to-

wards Camden.-Action at Camden.-Lord Raw-

don evacuates Camden, and returns to Charleston.

- Barbarous State of Society among the Moun-

taineers, and in the back Settlements of the Carolinas.

-Attack on Ninety Six--Repulse-General Greene

again obliged to retreat.--Execution of Colonel

Hayne.—Lord Rawdon leaves the State of South

Carolina, and embarks for England. --Action at

the Eutaw Springs.-General Greene retires to the

High-Hills of Santee. Governor Rutledge returns

to South Carolina, and resumes the Reins of Gov-

ernment.

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CHAPTER XX.

Lord Cornwallis marches to Wilmington.--Marquis

de la Fayette sent to Virginia.—Death of General

Phillips. Lord Cornwallis moves from Petersburgh

to Williamsburgh-Dissonant Opinions between him

and Sir Henry Clinton-Crosses James River--

Takes Post at Portsmouth. Indecision of Sir Henry

Clinton-Meditates an Attack on Philadelphia-

The Project relinquished.

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