Identifier: socialengland05trai (find matches)
Title: Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff), 1842-1900 Mann, James Saumarez, 1851-
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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lundered on in America, winning anoccasional trick, but always beaten on the rubber. Their plan—if plan there was—seems to have been to keep an army atNew York, from which to maintain strong detachments in theCarolinas and in Virginia. In 1781 our harsh conduct in NorthCarolina had so alienated the inhabitants, that even the Loyalistsrejoiced to see Cornwallis retire northwards towards Virginia.There our troops, under the mistaken policy of bleeding therebeUion to death, did enormous damasre, estimated at twomillions sterling. At first Cornwallis was unopposed, but whenthe militia arrived to reinforce the United States regular troopshe retired towards the coast; and in October he had been drivento the peninsula of Yorktown, at the mouth of the York River,on the coast of Virginia. Here he hastily entrenched himself. The sur- hopinj? acrainst hope that our fleet from New York would rescue render at ^ ^ ° *=> ^ Yorktown. hun. But England had lost the connnand of the sea. A strong
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276 AN ERA OF NEW DEPARTURES. (1742 French fleet from the West Indies not only brought to theFranco-American army a welcome reinforcement of 3,000 men,but it kept our relieving squadrons at bay ; and when at lengthour naval reinforcements arrived, they came too late. To defendhis unfinished works at Yorktown Cornwallis had only 7,000men. Washington commanded 16,000 troops, of whom 7,000were French veterans. The English general fought till his gunswere dismounted, his shells expended, and then surrendered.One of the terms of the capitulation was that the Englishtroops should march out of Yorktown with bands playing, so abandmaster selected an air the title of which admirably expressedthe feelings of Cornwalliss army— The Worlds turned upsidedown!The Great With the surrender of Cornwallis the military interest gi^QgQ of , *^ Gibraltar, shifts from the shores of North America to the Straits ofGibraltar. Here Elliott triumphantly maintained his post duringthe weary years of the great si

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