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The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816

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Ryerson Egerton

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were only 5,000 strong 17

The two fleets separated by a storm; only fighting between individual ships 18

Count D'Estaing, against the remonstrances and protests of American officers, determines to sail for
Boston Harbour for the repair of his ships 18

Bitter feeling and riot between the American sailors and citizens and French seamen and soldiers in the
streets of Boston 19

Raids in New England by British expeditions (in a note) 19

Differences between Count D'Estaing and the American officers as to the mode of attacking the British on
Long Island 19

Early in November Count D'Estaing with his fleet quitted the port of Boston and sailed for the West Indies,
thus disappointing the hopes of the Americans from the French alliance 20

Count D'Estaing, though strengthened by the fleet of Count De Grasse, could not be induced to come to
close fight with Admiral Byron 21

The French take St. Vincent 21

Count D'Estaing complained of by the Americans to the French Court, which orders him to return to the
American coasts and assist the Colonists 22

D'Estaing arrives suddenly on the American coasts with twenty-two sail-of-the-line and eleven frigates and
six thousand soldiers; his magnificent plans and expectations 22

D'Estaing arranges with General Lincoln to attack Savannah and rescue the province of Georgia, and
afterwards other Southern provinces, from the British 23

Account of the Siege of Savannah, and the defeat of the French and their American allies; result of the contest 24

Mutual recriminations and jealousies between the French and American officers; Count D'Estaing sails
with his fleet for France 25

Why this minute account of Count D'Estaing's abortive expeditions to America; the barren results of the first
two years' alliance between Congress and the King of France, by Dr. Ramsay 27

Spain joins France against England in 1779 28

Low state of the American army and finances; discouragement and despondency of the Americans in 1780 28

The degeneracy of Congress in 1778, as stated by General Washington 29

Depreciation of public credit; sale of the confiscated property of "Tories" 30

CHAPTER XXIX.

1780—A year of weakness and disaster to the American cause, and of success to
the British 32-41
Depression of American finances 32
Weakness of Washington's army 32
La Fayette returns from France with a loan of money and reinforcements of naval and land forces 33
The British receive naval reinforcement of war ships, and become superior to the French 33
Failure of the French reinforcements 33
Sir Henry Clinton goes South; besieges and takes Charleston 34
Conditions of the surrender and treatment of the inhabitants, as stated by Dr. Ramsay and

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