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13 ALEXANDER HAMILTON ON GATES’S RETREAT: Dupuy, 366.
14 CLINTON, “A FEW WORKS IF PROPERLY REINFORCED”: q. Willcox, AHR, 5. “THESE COUNTRY CLOWNS”: q. Miller, 156.
15 KING OF FRANCE IN NURSERY RHYME (AS QUOTED IN BARTLETT): Sometimes cited as “the Duke of York” but known in this form since childhood to the author and presumably to Bartlett.
16 LAFAYETTE, “WE ARE … DESTITUTE”: Idzarday, S. J., ed., Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution, Ithaca, N.Y., 1980.
17 HARTFORD CONFERENCE: Sparks, VII, 110, 130, 137, 171.
18 COLONEL BALFOUR, “DEFECTION … SO UNIVERSAL” IN SOUTH CAROLINA: q. Fleming, 58.
19 CORNWALLIS HAD A DORMANT COMMISSION TO SUCCEED CLINTON: Wickwire, 107.
20 CLINTON, “I CAN NEVER BE CORDIAL”: q. Larrabee, 104.
21 CLINTON, “I AM NEGLECTED AND ILL-TREATED”: q. Miller, 597; primary source is believed at Clements Library to be a letter from Clinton to Germain (letter from Curator of Clinton Papers to author, March 25, 1988).
22 CURRICULUM AT TURIN: Wickwire, 25-6.
23 LORD CAMDEN ON DECLARATORY BILL, “ABSOLUTELY ILLEGAL”: February 24, 1776, GB Parl., I, 364-7.
24 CORNWALLIS VOLUNTEERED: Wickwire, 79; Valentine, Establishment, I, 207.
25 CORNWALLIS TO MAJOR GENERAL PHILLIPS, “IF WE MEAN AN OFFENSIVE WAR”: April 10, 1781, Cornwallis, Corres., I, 87-8.
26 “A SUCCESSFUL BATTLE MAY GIVE US AMERICA”: ibid.
27 ARNOLD SOLD HIMSELF TO THE BRITISH FOR £6,000: Willcox, Portrait, 341, n. 6; Morris and Commager, 122.
28 PRICE CALCULATED ON A BASIS OF 2 GUINEAS PER MAN OF THE WEST POINT GARRISON: Griffith, 600.
29 TARLETON CHARGED WITH BURNING LIVESTOCK: Wickwire, 258.
30 WAXHAW MASSACRE: Dupuy, 347.
31 GREENE, “WE FIGHT, GET BEAT”: on the campaigns in the Carolinas, letter of June 22, 1781, to Luzerne, q. Dupuy, 411.
32 SWAMP FOX “HAD SO WROUGHT ON THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE”: q. Wickwire, 191.
33 FERGUSON’S PROCLAMATION: Wickwire, 208.
34 FERGUSON MESSAGE, “SOMETHING MUST BE DONE”: Dupuy, 368.
35 KING’S MOUNTAIN: Wickwire, 195 et seq.; Dupuy, 367-70.
36 LOYALISTS “DASTARDLY AND PUSILLANIMOUS”: q. Wickwire, 221.
37 PRISONERS TRIED FOR TREASON AND HANGED: ibid., 218.
38 GREENE TO JEFFERSON, “THE GREAT BODY OF THE PEOPLE ARE WITH US … THEY ARE A LIFELESS AND INANIMATE MASS”: November 19, 1780, q. Malone, 232.
39 WASHINGTON, “WE HAVE BUT A HANDFUL OF MEN”: q. Freeman, V, 177.
40 WASHINGTON, “THE SAME BOUNTIFUL PROVIDENCE”: q. Freeman, V, 250.
41 WASHINGTON, “THE GAME IS YET IN OUR HANDS”: to John Matthews, June, 1781, q. Freeman, V, 295.
42 TARLETON ORDERED TO PUSH MORGAN’S ARMY: q. Dupuy, 378.
43 AT COWPENS: ibid., 379-88.
44 “JUST HOLD YOUR HEADS UP, BOYS”: q. Davis, 99.
45 CORNWALLIS, “ALMOST BROKE MY HEART”: q. Wickwire, 269.
46 GREENE, “AFTER THIS, NOTHING SEEMS DIFFICULT”: q. Bass, 162.
47 O’HARA, “WITHOUT BAGGAGE … TO FOLLOW GREENE’S ARMY”: O’Hara to Duke of Grafton, April 20, 1781, Wickwire title page.
48 CORNWALLIS DISCARDS BAGGAGE: Wickwire, 276.
49 O’HARA, “FATAL INFATUATION”: ibid., 285.
50 CORNWALLIS, “OUR FRIENDS … SO TIMID AND STUPID”: q. Wickwire, 243.
51 “A-HOLLERIN’, A-SNORTIN’ ”: q. ibid., 280.
52 MORGAN, “SHOOT THE FIRST MAN WHO RUNS”: q. Dupuy, 395.
53 BATTLE OF GUILFORD: Dupuy, 394-404.
54 CHARLES FOX, “ANOTHER SUCH VICTORY”: q. ibid., 405.
55 CORNWALLIS TO CLINTON, “THE ONLY POSSIBLE PLAN”: q. Wickwire, 320.
56 LAURENS TO INFORM FRANCE IN “CLEAREST LIGHT”: Rochambeau, Memoirs, 32-3 [1838].
57 LAURENS’ “INTREPIDITY BORDERING ON RASHNESS”: q. Encyc. Brit. on Laurens.
58 WASHINGTON, “CALAMITOUS DISTRESS”: Fitzpatrick, Writings, XXI, 106-7.
59 WASHINGTON TO LAURENS, “WE ARE AT THE END OF OUR TETHER”: Fitzpatrick, Writings, XXI, 439.
60 LAURENS MISSION: Aldridge, 217-20.
61 LAURENS “BRUSQUED” THEM TOO MUCH: van Doren, 626.
62 LAURENS TO VERGENNES, THE “SWORD WHICH I WEAR”: q. Fleming, 17-18.
63 LOUIS XVI ORDERS ADMIRAL DE GRASSE TO AID AMERICANS: Corwin, 293; Lewis, C. L., 99.
64 DE GRASSE SIX FEET SIX ON DECK IN TIME OF COMBAT: q. Whipple, 47, from Tornquist.
65 CLINTON TO RODNEY, “SHOULD YOU BE APPOINTED COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF