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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 25: (search)
ur little army will participate in successes which will compensate it for a long and fatiguing campaign. They say that you are about to make peace. I think that you should wait for the events of this campaign. On the very day on which Cornwallis took possession of York and Gloucester, Washington, assured of the assistance of de Grasse, turned his whole thoughts towards moving with the French troops under Rochambeau and the best part of the American army to the Chap. XXV.} 1781. Aug. Chesapeake. While hostile divisions and angry jealousies increased between the two chief British officers in the United States, on the American side all things conspired happily together. De Barras, who commanded the French squadron at Newport, wrote as to his intentions: M. de Grasse is my junior; yet, as soon as he is within reach, I will go to sea to put myself under his orders. The same spirit insured unanimity in the mixed council of war. The rendezvous was given to de Grasse in Chesapeake B