Letters And Recollections of George Washington Being Letters to Tobias Lear And
Letters And Recollections of George Washington Being Letters to Tobias Lear And
Washington, George, 1732-1799
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On the night of June 24, 1780, the day after the Battle of Springfield, Washington, upon return to his head quarters, addressed another call to Governors of States for their full quota, under new assignments, and awaited with interest further tidings from the progress of the French allies, then on the sea. This Battle of Spring field had vindicated his confidence in the Continental troops ; and, as in all armies, some regiments proved in variably reliable, under whatever conditions they fought.... On the tenth day of July, 1780, the first division of the French army sent by Louis XVI. , in aid of American Independence, consisting of six thousand troops, landed at Newport, R. I. All were under the command of Lieu tenant-General Rochambeau, accompanied by Major- General Chastellux, a relative of Lafayette, and escorted by seven heavy battleships, under command of Chevalier de Ternay. Washington immediately submitted a project for the capture of New York ; but on the thirteenth of July Admiral Graves reached that city with six ships-of-the- line, which gave to the British such superiority of ships and guns, that the plan was postponed to wait the arrival of the second French division, of equal numbers, which was supposed, at the time, to be already on its way from France.
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