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2 PALLISER-KEPPEL CONTROVERSY: Miller, 336-7; Mackesy, 239-43; James, B., 135-42.
3 “FIERCE TORRENT OF INVECTIVE” AGAINST SANDWICH: Jesse, II, 241.
4 LONDON MOB CELEBRATES KEPPEL’S ACQUITTAL: Spinney, 292; Griffith, 542.
5 LORD NORTH CLIMBED TO THE ROOF: Miller, 336.
6 REFUSALS TO SERVE UNDER SANDWICH: Spinney, 292.
7 “SO VIOLENT WAS THE SPIRIT OF PARTY”: Wraxall, 306.
8 HOOD ON “WANT OF DISCIPLINE”: George A. Billias, ed., George Washington’s Opponents: British Generals and Admirals in the American Revolution, New York, 1969, p. 297.
9 BARRINGTON, “WOULD HAVE MADE ME RUN MAD”: q. Mackesy, 354.
10 A MODERN HISTORIAN: Callender, 15-16; q. Lewis, C. L., 67-8. “A [British] victory at Ushant would entirely have changed the history of the world. It would have shut the French up in their own ports and rendered them incapable of assisting the Americans. The helplessness of the French would have kept Europe passive and Britain would not have been called to face the world in arms. If left to deal with her turbulent sons, uninterrupted by foreigners, she might well have subdued them. She might then in a happier hour have granted them the substance of their demands and the great republic of North America might today form an integral part of her world-embracing empire.” On the same theory, see also Kennedy, 109.
11 “WILDLY FALLACIOUS”: Willcox, Portrait, 143.
12 “INTELLECTUAL SHORTCOMINGS”: ibid.
13 STORMONT, “WE HAVE NO INTELLIGENCE”: Walpole, Last Journals, II, 355.
14 GERMAIN, “UTMOST FORCE,” ON GENERAL BELIEF IN USE OF FORCE: Miller, 338.
15 DUKE OF RICHMOND ADVISES KEPPEL: q. James, W. M., 121.
16 PITT (LORD CHATHAM), “YOU CANNOT CONQUER AMERICA”: November 20, 1777, GB Parl.
17 ASTONISHING REVERSAL OF LORD NORTH’S GOVERNMENT: OFFER OF PEACE TERMS TO THE COLONIES: Willcox, Portrait, 219 ff.; Griffith, 469 ff.
18 JOHNSTONE COURT-MARTIALED FOR MANSLAUGHTER AND INSUBORDINATION: Valentine, Establishment, II, 499.
19 JOHNSTONE’S BRIBES AND OFFER OF PEERAGES: Miller, 332, 333n.
20 CARLISLE MANIFESTO OF 1778: Miller, 333.
21 CONGRESS ON “INSIDIOUS DESIGNS”: Carl van Doren, Secret History of the American Revolution, New York, 1951, 114.
22 UNPUBLISHED DRAFT (OF SEPTEMBER 29, 1778): Stevens, B. F., V, 529.
23 TRYON PROCLAMATION: Townshend, 24.
24 TRYON RAID IN CONNECTICUT: ibid., 37-8.
25 MURDER OF BENJAMIN ENGLISH: The Connecticut Journal, July 3, 1779; q. Townshend, 27.
26 RESISTANCE OF REV. NAPHTALI DAGGETT: Townshend, 74-5; DAB.
27 WALPOLE, AS INSIGNIFICANT AS DENMARK OR SARDINIA: to Henry Seymour Conway, January 3, 1781, Corres., XXXIX, 354.
28 A FALL “LIKE CARTHAGE”: unidentified q. Miller, 339.
29 D’ESTAING EXPEDITION: Clinton, 99; Mahan, Influence, 359-63.
30 “DESERTED IN A MOST RASCALLY MANNER”: q. Miller, 330.
CHAPTER IX LOW POINT OF THE REVOLUTION
1 SANDWICH TO KING ON A COMMISSIONER TO WATCH RODNEY IN PURCHASING: September 17, 1779, Fortescue, IV, 448.
2 RODNEY, “DELAYS ARE WORSE THAN DEATH”: Mundy, I, 173.
3 BIRON PROPOSES TO PUT HIS PURSE AT RODNEY’S SERVICE: Rodney letter to his wife, April, 1779, ibid., 177 ff.
4 BIRON EPISODE: Spinney, 283-8.
5 “JE VOUS ENVIE”: q. Spinney, 286, from Comte R. de Gontaut Biron, Le duc de Lauzun, Paris, 1937.
6 LAUZUN’S HOUSE WAS THE PRESENT RITZ HOTEL: Whitridge, 128.
7 EXPENDITURES OF DUC DE LAUZUN: Manceron, 253n.
8 CREDITORS HAD GROWN SO “CLAMOROUS”: Spinney, 284.
9 ON SIR CHARLES HARDY, “DOES THE PEOPLE AT HOME THINK”: Kampenfelt to Sir Charles Middleton, letters of July 2 and August 6, 1779, q. James, W. M., 174-5.
10 ADMIRAL GEARY “WHOLLY DEBILITATED”: q. Mackesy, 355.
11 ATTEMPTED INVASION: James, W. M., 177-84; Mackesy, 280 et seq.
12 D’ORVILLIERS, “MEDIOCRE CAPTAINS”: q. James, W. M., 177.
13 ALARM GRIPPED ENGLAND: Griffith, 556.
14 “IGNORANCE AND VACILLATION”: q. James, W. M., 181-2.
15 RODNEY AT PORTSMOUTH, “AN ABSENCE OF PROPER ZEAL”: Mundy, I, 203.
16 OPPOSITION SPEAKERS, “SUPERLATIVELY WRETCHED”: amendment to King’s speech from the throne on November 25, 1779, q. Griffith, 572-3.
17 SANDWICH, “FOR GOD