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Title: Seventeen hundred and seventy-six, or, The war of independence : a history of the Anglo-Americans, from the period of the union of the colonies against the French, to the inauguration of Washington, the first president of the United States of America ...
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Edward Walker, 114 Fulton Street
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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memorate the victory over the Serapis. Thus ended the warlike operations of the year 1779. The maindivision of the American army of the north went into winter-quartersat Morristown, New Jersey, under the immediate personal commandof Washington, and strong detachments were stationed at WestPoint and other posts on the Hudson, and the cavalry were cantonedin Connecticut. The manifest designs of Clinton against thesouth, and the defeat of the Americans at Savannah, induced theCommander-in-chief to send a reinforcement to General Lincolnsarmy; and before the middle of December two of the North Caro-lina regiments and the whole of the Virginia line marched to thesouth, leaving the main army in quite a weak condition. Thescarcity of provisions, and the depreciated value of the continentalmoney, soon threatened a total dissolution of the army. The soldierswere put upon allowance before the close of January, and finally, toprevent the catastrophe of a general rebellion, incited by starvation,
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chap, ix.) EVENTS OF 1779. 299 Election by Congress of Ministers to Great Britain and Spain. The French Alliance. Washington was obliged to resort to measures similar to thoseadopted during the winter of 1778, at Valley Forge,* and thus hemanaged to keep his little army together. On the twenty-seventh of September, Congress proceeded to electa minister to negotiate a treaty of peace and also of commerce, withGreat Britain, hoping by that means to conclude the war andestablish the independence of the States through the instrumentalityof diplomacy, rather than shed more blood. John Adams waselected to this important office, and immediately proceeded to enterupon its duties.t John Jay was elected the same day minister toSpain, for general negotiations and for the special purpose of con-cluding some definite adjustment of boundaries between the Spanishpossessions and the States of the confederacy. Mr. Jay did notreach Spain until March, 1780. In November, M. Gerard, theFrench Minister to

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