misrepresented
by Mr. Bancroft 35

CHAPTER XXX.

• 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
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