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66 HURRICANE DAMAGE: Spinney, 354-7; Griffith, 615; Mundy, I, 448 ff.
67 “THE LOSS OF ONE HALF OF IT”: March 29, 1781, MacKenzie, 497.
68 HOOD TO RODNEY, AND VICE VERSA, “I KNOW OF NO-ONE WHATSOEVER”: q. Spinney, 359.
69 NELSON ON HOOD: DNB.
70 SANDWICH, “IT HAS BEEN DIFFICULT”: q. MacIntyre, 158.
71 HOOD’S NASTY LETTERS: Larrabee, 171-2.
72 RODNEY, “MENTAL AND BODILY FATIGUE”: Mundy, II, 47-9.
73 SANDWICH TO RODNEY, “THE WHOLE GOVERNMENT, AND THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL”: Mundy, II, 104.
74 SANDWICH, WAR “CANNOT LAST MUCH LONGER”: ibid., 105.
75 RODNEY TO LEAVE ST. EUSTATIUS “A MERE DESERT”: ibid., 97-8.
76 SANDWICH REPORTS FRENCH FLEET: ibid., 59-60.
77 MME. DU DEFFAND TO WALPOLE (MARCH 13, 1780): Walpole, Corres., VII, 212.
78 CAPTAIN TIMOTHY FOLGER AND GULF STREAM: A. B. C. Whipple, Restless Oceans, Alexandria, Va., 23 ff.
79 ROCHAMBEAU AT WETHERSFIELD RECOMMENDS OFFENSIVE AT CHESAPEAKE: Rochambeau, Memoirs, 50; Larrabee, 243-4; Lewis, C. L., 121, 133.
80 ROCHAMBEAU ON “GRAVE CRISIS”: Larrabee, 152-3; Lewis, C. L., 119-25.
81 DE GRASSE LETTER CHOOSES CHESAPEAKE: Lewis, C. L., 138-9; Mahan, Influence, 388.
82 WASHINGTON TO LUZERNE, “GREAT DECISIVE STROKE”: Fitzpatrick, Writings, XXII, 206.
83 “BEAUTIFUL BLUE ESTUARY”: Gallatin, 41.
84 CORNWALLIS’ CHOICE OF YORKTOWN AND CLINTON’S ORDERS: Wickwire, 328, 349-52; Willcox, AHR, 19-20; Mackesy, 410-12.
CHAPTER XI THE CRITICAL MOMENT
1 COMBAT OF HOOD AND DE GRASSE OFF MARTINIQUE: Lewis, C. L., 109-13; Spinney, 370-72.
2 RODNEY’S FAILURE TO PURSUE WHILE KEEPING GUARD AT BARBADOS: Spinney, 374; MacIntyre, 178-80.
3 ROCHAMBEAU’S LETTERS REPORTING “GRAVE CRISIS” RECEIVED IN HAITI: Tornquist, 49; Lewis, C. L., 133-5.
4 DE BARRAS TO DE GRASSE, “MOST NECESSARY ARTICLE NEEDED HERE IS MONEY”: Tornquist, 53.
5 DE GRASSE PLEDGE OF PROPERTY REJECTED: Lewis, C. L., 138; Anonymous, 151-2; Larrabee, 155.
6 DECISION TO TAKE THE WHOLE FLEET: Lewis, C. L., 138-9; Larrabee, 156; Mackesy, 419.
7 DE GRASSE CONCLUSIVE LETTER OF JULY 28: Lewis, C. L., 138; Mackesy, 414.
8 RODNEY’S WARNING NOTICE TO GRAVES: Larrabee, 173-4.
9 LETTER TO EARL OF CARLISLE: Mundy, II, 151.
10 ORDERS TO SIR PETER PARKER: Mackesy, 423; Willcox, AHR, 22.
11 RODNEY TO HIS WIFE, “THE FATE OF ENGLAND MAY DEPEND”: Mahan, Types, 233; Mundy, II, 139.
12 SPECIFIES CAPES OF VIRGINIA AS PLACE WHERE FRENCH INTEND THEIR “GRAND EFFORT”: q. Larrabee, 179, from Graves Papers.
13 NOTICE TO GRAVES WENT UNDELIVERED: James, W. M., 284.
14 HOOD AND GRAVES CONFER ON LONG ISLAND WITH CLINTON: Willcox, Portrait, 421.
15 RODNEY PREPARES TO TAKE PROMISED LEAVE: Mundy, II, 143 ff.
16 RODNEY TO CARLISLE, “TO BE DEPRIVED OF THAT HONOUR”: September 17, 1781, Mundy, II, 151.
17 HOTHAM’S CONVOY CAPTURED: James, W. M., 305-6; Mundy, II, 61.
18 “DETERMINED TO SERVE AGAIN”: q. Spinney, 383.
19 HOOD, “IF THAT ADMIRAL HAD LED”: q. Spinney, 382.
20 RODNEY TO JACKSON, “IN MY POOR OPINION”: ibid.
21 TORNQUIST ON MONEY RAISED IN CUBA: Tornquist, 53.
22 DE GRASSE TOOK BAHAMAS CHANNEL: Lewis, C. L., 140; Mahan, Influence, 388.
23 HOOD SAW NO FOREIGN SAIL IN CHESAPEAKE BAY: Lewis, C. L., 152; Willcox, AHR, 25, n. 90.
24 GRAVES, “HEATED IMAGINATION”: q. Willcox, Portrait, 417.
25 IMPOSSIBLE FOR RODNEY TO SEND REINFORCEMENTS IN TIME: q. Miller, 604.
26 DE LAUZUN, ENGLISH “STRICKEN WITH BLINDNESS”: Lauzun, 200.
27 MORE THAN “CONGRESS HAD A RIGHT TO EXPECT”: q. Miller, 592.
28 WASHINGTON DECIDES TO ADOPT PLAN FOR CHESAPEAKE: “I WAS OBLIGED”: August 14, 1781, Fitzpatrick, Diaries, II, 254; Gallatin, 21.
29 STOCKS ROSE SIX PERCENT: to Mann, March 13, 1781, Walpole, Corres., XXV, 139.
30 EMPRESS OF RUSSIA AND SIR JOSEPH OFFERED TO MEDIATE: ibid.
31 WALPOLE “ON THE WINGS OF WINDS TO VIENNA”: ibid.
32 “THEN MEANLY SOLICIT”: September 30, 1781, Walpole, Last Journals, II, 374.
CHAPTER XII LAST CHANCE—THE YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN
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