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35 VAUGUYON, A POLICY OF EASE AND QUIET: Edler, 20, n. 1.
36 FIELDING-BYLANDT COMBAT: Blok, V, 165-6.
37 MARINE COMMITTEE’S PLANS FOR JONES: Morison, Jones, 76-7.
38 FIGHT OF BONHOMME RICHARD AND SERAPIS: Whipple, 48-9; Lorenz, 288 et seq.
39 YORKE’S ACCESS TO SECRET CORRESPONDENCE: Edler, 17, n. 3.
40 BANCROFT AS “SUPREME SPY”: Augur, 136.
41 JONES REPORTS THE DUTCH PEOPLE ARE FOR US: q. Schama, 62.
42 YORKE’S PROTESTS ON PRESENCE OF JONES: q. Schulte, 72-3; Lorenz, 320.
43 “A THOUGHT STRUCK ME YESTERDAY,” YORKE WROTE TO THE ADMIRALTY: q. Lorenz, 327.
44 JONES, “DRAWBRIDGES HAULED UP OR LET DOWN AT OUR DISCRETION”: q. Schulte, 73.
45 THE DE NEUFVILLE OR SECRET TREATY: Augur, 322; Bemis, 289 ff.
46 WILLIAM V WOULD RESIGN AS STADTHOLDER RATHER THAN ACCEPT THE TREATY: Schulte, 63.
47 SECRET TREATY BECOMES PUBLICLY KNOWN: van Loon, 221, 252 ff.
48 CATHERINE II AND THE NEUTRALITY LEAGUE: de Madariaga, 383-5.
49 “LA MARIÉE EST TROP BELLE. ON VEUT ME TROMPER”: q. Haslip, 278.
50 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, “EVERY NATION IN EUROPE”: Committee of Secret Correspondence, March 12, 1977, q. Edler, 9.
51 FIVE PRINCIPLES OF NEUTRALITY: Bemis, 152 ff.
52 CABINET MEETING AT WHICH LORD NORTH FELL ASLEEP: Mackesy, 378-9.
53 MALMESBURY, “UNGRATEFUL DIRTY SENSELESS BOORS”: to Sir Robert Keith, November 29, 1780, Malmesbury, Diaries, I, 345.
54 LAURENS LOSES DE NEUFVILLE TREATY OVERBOARD: Blok, V, 168; Schulte, 148.
55 STORMONT TO YORKE, “EQUIVALENT TO ACTUAL AGGRESSION”: q. Schulte, 149.
56 LAURENS PAPERS WOULD GIVE “PROPEREST DIRECTION TO THE WAR”: ibid.
57 PUBLICATION WOULD “OCCASION A WONDERFUL ALARM”: ibid.
58 YORKE DEMANDS PUNISHMENT OF VAN BERCKEL ET AL.: Schulte, 150; Blok, V, 168.
59 ADAMS REPORTS YORKE TREATING AMSTERDAM AS BOSTON: q. Schulte, 150.
60 ADAMS, “A VIOLENT STRUGGLE” IN THE REPUBLIC: to Congress, December 25, 1780, Adams, Works, VII, 346-7.
61 DUTCH JOIN THE LEAGUE: Blok, V, 168-9; Madariaga, 238.
62 LORD NORTH’S SPEECH ANNOUNCING THE WAR: January 25, 1781, GB Parl.
CHAPTER VII ENTER ADMIRAL RODNEY
Correspondence and remarks by and about Admiral Rodney not cited are from the biographies by Mundy and Spinney; on conditions under sail: Whipple; Mahan, Types; Morison, Jones.
1 RODNEY RECEIVES ORDERS JANUARY 27 TO TAKE ST. EUSTATIUS: Mahan, Types, 217.
2 “FIRST OBJECTS OF ATTACK”: Spinney, 360, q. from Sandwich Papers, IV, 128.
3 GREAT “QUANTITIES OF PROVISIONS … LAID UP THERE”: Mundy, II, 8.
4 ATTACK ON EUSTATIUS “A MOST PROFOUND SECRET”: ibid., 15.
5 RODNEY DEMANDS “INSTANT SURRENDER”: ibid., 12-13.
6 “MORE DETRIMENTAL”: Rodney to Sandwich, February 7, 1781, Sandwich Papers, IV, 148.
7 RODNEY ENTERS ST. EUSTATIUS FLYING FRENCH FLAG: Miller, 591.
8 RODNEY’S CONFISCATIONS: Hartog, chap. 9; Jameson, 700 et seq.; Augur, 323; Larrabee, 165.
9 SINGLES OUT THE JEWS: Hartog, 88; Jameson, 705; Hannay, 154.
10 RODNEY ON DE GRAAFF AS “FIRST MAN WHO INSULTED THE BRITISH FLAG”: to Stephens, March 6, 1781, q. Mundy, II, 46.
11 DE GRAAFF SEIZED AND SENT AS PRISONER TO BRITAIN: Mundy, II, 46.
12 TRADING WITH THE ENEMY: Augur, 53.
13 MERCHANTS’ PAPERS DEPOSITED WITH LORD GEORGE GERMAIN: Spinney, 420; MacIntyre, 163.
14 PAPERS MISSING AFTER THE WAR: Augur, 325; Larrabee, 168.
15 WIFE WRITES, “JOY TO YOU, MY DEAR SIR GEORGE”: March 17, 1781, Mundy, II, 50-1.
16 ADAMS REPORTS “GLOOM AND TERROR” IN THE NETHERLANDS: Adams, Works, VII, 523.
17 RODNEY, “LOSS TO HOLLAND … GREATER THAN CAN BE CONCEIVED”: Mundy, II, 15-16.
18 BURKE’S SPEECH ON CRUELTY AND OPPRESSION OF RODNEY: debate November 30, 1781, GB Parl.
19 GERMAIN’S DEFENSE OF RODNEY: ibid.
20 CHARLES JAMES FOX’S SPEECH: ibid.
21 DEFENSE BY LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND: ibid.
22 RODNEY, “NEST OF VIPERS”: Mundy, II, 29.
23 RODNEY, “THEY DESERVE SCOURGING”: to Germain, q. Jameson, 702.
24 RODNEY’S LOSS: Larrabee, 167-8; Jameson, 707, 708n.
25 RODNEY AND VAUGHAN WILL LEAVE THE ISLAND “A MERE DESERT … THIS ROCK … HAS DONE ENGLAND MORE HARM,” APRIL 23, 1781: Mundy, II, 97.
26 A FAMILY OF GREATER ANTIQUITY THAN