THE FRENCH AND CONGRESS ALLIES RECOVER VIRGINIA; SURRENDER OF
LORD CORNWALLIS; RESULTS 42-52
General Washington and the French Commander plan an
expedition to the South 42
Sir Henry Clinton deceived as to their design 43
Count De Grasse sails for the Chesapeake with a fleet of
28 ships and 7,000 French troops 43
Remarkable march of the allied army, five hundred miles
from New York to Virginia, without committing any depredations
whatever upon the inhabitants, even in the season of fruits 43
Plan of the siege of York Town 44
Earl Cornwallis's measures of defence 44
Position and strength of the allied forces, and their
process of operations 45
Lord Cornwallis's courageous and protracted defence; is
disappointed of promised reinforcements from New York 45
Lord Cornwallis capitulates to superior forces 45
Conditions of capitulation 46
Circumstances of the Loyalists 46
Groundless boastings of American orators and writers
over the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, commanding but a small
part of the British forces 47
The unrivalled skill and courage of Washington undoubted,
as well as the bravery and endurance of his soldiers; but
the success of the siege of York Town chiefly owing to the
French, but for whose ships, artillery and land forces, Lord
Cornwallis would have been the conqueror, rather than conquered,
in this famous siege and battle 47
The resources of England; the peace party opposed to the
continuance of the American War irrespective of the Battle
of York Town 48
The war party and corrupt administration at length defeated
in the House of Commons, after repeated and protracted debates
and various intrigues 50
Change of Government, and end of Lord North's twelve years'
administration 51
Seven years' war and bloodshed, and an unnatural alliance
would have been prevented, liberty secured, and the united
life of the Anglo-Saxon race saved, had Congress, in 1776,
adhered to its previous professions (in a note) 52