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18 RODNEY WOULD BE HERO OF THE HOUR: Walpole, Corres., XXVII, 46, n. 27; Hannay, 104.
19 “BRILLIANT RUSH”: Hannay, 100.
20 HORACE MANN, “CAUGHT LIKE WILD FIRE”: March 11, 1780, Walpole, Corres., XXV, 24.
21 LETTERS OF DAUGHTER AND WIFE ON MOONLIGHT BATTLE: Mundy, I, 259, 262.
22 WALTER YOUNG CLAIMS CREDIT: MacIntyre, 105.
23 SANDWICH CONGRATULATIONS: Mundy, I, 265.
24 SIR JOHN ROSS, OUR EXPEDITION: Sandwich Papers, III, 204.
25 WALPOLE LETTER TO REV. COLE, “MY SYSTEMATIC BELIEF”: February 27, 1780, Walpole, Corres., II, 84.
26 ADAMS, “NAVAL VICTORIES EXCITE THEM”: q. Miller, 596.
27 RODNEY’S PENSION: MacIntyre, 143.
28 “TO BE OUT OF PARLIAMENT”: q. Spinney, 343.
29 MAHAN, “THE OBJECTIVE FROM WHICH HIS EYE NEVER WANDERED”: Mahan, Influence, 378.
30 SIGNALING SYSTEM: MacIntyre, 111-12, 120; Hannay, 125; Spinney, 321.
31 COMBAT OF APRIL 17, 1780: Hannay, 129-35; Mahan, Influence, 378-80; Lewis, C. L., 86-93; MacIntyre, 177 et seq.; Spinney, 320 et seq.; James, W. M., 198, et seq. ON “DISOBEDIENCE” TO SIGNALS: to Germain, q. Spinney, 329.
32 RODNEY’S REPORT TO THE ADMIRALTY: Mundy, [1836], 102 ff.
33 RODNEY, “MY EYE WAS MORE TO BE DREADED”: Sandwich Papers, III, 215; Mundy, I, 295.
34 PURSUIT OF GUICHEN FOR 14 DAYS AND NIGHTS AND SLEEPING ON THE FLOOR: MacIntyre, 137.
35 RODNEY GOES TO THE AMERICAN COAST: MacIntyre, 149; Hannay, 144.
36 CLINTON, “FOR GOD’S SAKE, MY LORD”: q. Willcox, Portrait, 269.
37 CLINTON “IMPLORED” HIS MAJESTY: Clinton, 137.
38 PLEA BECOMES A “PRAYER”: ibid., 149 and 173.
39 CORNWALLIS, “WHAT IS OUR PLAN?”: April 10, 1781, to Major General Phillips, Cornwallis, Corres., II, 87.
40 GENERAL MURRAY, “TO LOSE A BATTLE TO YOU EVERY WEEK”: q. Mackesy, 407.
41 RODNEY “FLEW ON THE WINGS OF NATIONAL ENTHUSIASM”: q. Spinney, 346.
42 ARBUTHNOT “DESTITUTE OF … NAVAL TACTICS”: DNB on Arbuthnot.
43 CLINTON, THROWN REBELS “INTO A CONSTERNATION” (TO RODNEY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1780): PRO Clinton papers, document 30/20/12 102388.
44 CLINTON, “YOUR FORTUNATE ARRIVAL”: ibid.
45 CLINTON ON ARBUTHNOT, “THIS OLD GENTLEMAN”: q. Griffith, 596.
46 RODNEY’S CONDUCT “AS USUAL PRAISEWORTHY”: q. Spinney, 353.
47 “FATAL MEASURE” OF EVACUATING RHODE ISLAND UNDER “ENFORCED” ADVICE OF ARBUTHNOT: Mundy, I, 429; Spinney, 348.
48 ARBUTHNOT, RHODE ISLAND “WAS OF NO USE TO THE NAVY”: Clinton, 145.
49 “THE GENERAL HATES THE ADMIRAL”: q. Willcox, Portrait, 332.
50 RODNEY PROPOSES A SHAM BATTLE TO LURE FRENCH FROM RHODE ISLAND: Clinton to Rodney, September 18, 1780, Clinton Papers, PRO, 30/20/12; Spinney, 348.
51 RODNEY, WAR CONDUCTED WITH “SLACKNESS INCONCEIVABLE”: Mundy, I, 428.
52 WASHINGTON, PROSPECTS “INFINITELY WORSE”: Fitzpatrick, Writings, XVII, 272.
53 RATIONS REDUCED TO ONE-EIGHTH OF NORMAL: Morris and Commager, 121 under May 25, 1780.
54 MUTINY OF PENNSYLVANIA TROOPS: Griffith, 618-20; Miller, 542-5.
55 VON STEUBEN, “CAESAR AND HANNIBAL”: q. Miller, 562.
56 WASHINGTON DIARY ON MAY I, “WE HAVE NOTHING”: Fitzpatrick, Diaries, II, 208.
CHAPTER X “A SUCCESSFUL BATTLE MAY GIVE US AMERICA”
1 LORD NORTH, “IF AMERICA SHOULD GROW”: q. Miller, 585.
2 CLINTON, “I HAVE ALL TO HOPE”: According to the Curator of the Clinton Papers at the Clements Library, this was a phrase that Clinton used from time to time, as seen in his Papers #133:8; q. Mackesy, 385.
3 GERMAIN, “SO VAST IS OUR SUPERIORITY”: q. Miller, 612.
4 MURRAY, “I JUDGE THAT THE ENEMY”: q. Mackesy, 384.
5 HORACE MANN, “UNLESS SOME DECISIVE STROKE”: Walpole, Corres., XXV, 83.
6 CLINTON, “ARMY THREE TIMES IN DANGER OF STARVING”: Clinton, 99.
7 WASHINGTON, NAVAL SUPERIORITY “WITH AN AID OF MONEY”: to Laurens, January 15, 1781, Fitzpatrick, Writings, XXI, 108.
8 WASHINGTON, “WITHOUT THE SHADOW OF A BLANKET”: to Fielding Lewis, July 6, 1780, q. Freeman, V, 177.
9 GREENE, “SPRAT IN A WHALE’S BELLY”: ibid., 99.
10 WASHINGTON, “I HAVE ALMOST CEASED TO HOPE”: q. Miller, 528.
11 LAUZUN “VERY AGREEABLE TO THE AMERICANS”: Rochambeau, Memoirs, 28.
12 WASHINGTON TO BROTHER SAMUEL, “IT IS IMPOSSIBLE”: August 31, 1780,