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2 DE LAUZUN’S CAVALRY LEGION: Davis, 6.
3 WASHINGTON TO GREENE, “AS INTERESTING AND ANXIOUS A MOMENT”: q. Lewis, C. L., 148.
4 DE GRASSE “TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE”—WILL SEND TRANSPORTS: ibid., 155.
5 DEUX-PONTS, WE “ARE IN PERFECT IGNORANCE”: Deux-Ponts, My Campaigns, 126.
6 CLINTON, “UNLESS A SUPERIOR FLEET”: Clinton to William Eden, May 30, 1780, q. Willcox, AHR, 5.
7 CLINTON’S ORDERS FOR FOOD AND LIQUOR: Document headed House Expensing [sic] New York and His Excellency Sir Henry Clinton, 250:20:22 and 250:20:30, Clinton Papers, Clements Library.
8 GENERAL OFFICERS AT CLINTON’S HEADQUARTERS: Manual of the Common Council of New York, Clinton Papers, Clements Library.
9 CLINTON “QUITE A MONOPOLIZER … RIDING FULL TILT TO AND FROM HIS DIFFERENT SEATS”: q. Stevens, October, 1880, 1139, from political magazine of London citing Manual of the Common Council (of the Corporation of the City of New York).
10 WASHINGTON WATCHES FERRIES CROSSING WITH CLAUDE BLANCHARD: Blanchard, 129, 130.
11 WASHINGTON TO ROCHAMBEAU ON RIVER CROSSING: Fitzpatrick, Writings, XXIII, 25.
12 DEUX-PONTS, “AN ENEMY OF ANY BOLDNESS OR ANY SKILL”: Deux-Ponts, My Campaigns, 123n.
13 WILLIAM SMITH, “NO SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE”: q. Fleming, 99.
14 CLINTON TO NEWCASTLE, “AMERICA IS BECOME NO OBJECT?”: q. Willcox, Portrait, 355-6.
15 CLINTON’S “FEAR THAT THE ENEMY MIGHT BURN NEW YORK”: q. Wickwire, 355.
16 CLINTON, “THINGS … COMING FAST TO A CRISIS”: to Germain, September 7, 1781, q. Willcox, AHR, 26.
17 CLINTON TO GRAVES, “AS SOON AS THE WAY IS CLEAR”: September 2, 1781, ibid.
18 VON CLOSEN, A “PLEASING, INDUSTRIOUS …”: von Closen, intro., xxii-xxiii. VON CLOSEN, “A VERY BEAUTIFUL SMALL VALLEY”: von Closen, 109.
19 ON PRINCETON: Blanchard, 134.
20 APPEARANCE OF A FLEET: Freeman, V, 3, 15.
21 MARCHERS IN PHILADELPHIA: Royal Deux-Ponts, My Campaigns, 26 ff.; von Closen, 120-21; Gallatin, 126.
22 DINE AT ROBERT MORRIS’S: von Closen, 117.
23 DINE AT JOSEPH REED’S: ibid., 119.
24 WASHINGTON TO LAFAYETTE ON SEPTEMBER 2, “I AM DISTRESSED”: Fitzpatrick, Writings, XXIII, 77.
25 COURIER FROM DE GRASSE’S FLEET: Freeman, V, 321.
26 WASHINGTON AT CHESTER, WAVING HIS HAT AND HANDKERCHIEF: von Closen, 123; Freeman, V, 322.
27 NEWS REPORTED TO PHILADELPHIA BANQUET: Gallatin, 27, 31; Scott, 16-17. “LONG LIVE LOUIS SIXTEENTH:”: ibid.
28 BATTLE OF THE BAY: Lewis, C. L., 156-69; Larrabee, 184-223; James, W. M., 288-96; Tornquist, 58-61.
29 GRAVES, “EFFECTUAL SUCCOUR”: q. Lewis, C. L., 169.
30 TORNQUIST, “IT WAS A PLEASANT SURPRISE”: Tornquist, 57.
31 CLINTON TO CORNWALLIS ON SEPTEMBER 2, “YOU MAY BE ASSURED”: Clinton, 563.
32 CLINTON TO CORNWALLIS ON SEPTEMBER 6, “I THINK THE BEST WAY”: ibid., 564.
33 “THEY ARE ALREADY EMBARKED”: Letter of September 6, 1781, q. Wickwire, 362.
34 “RAISED SPIRITS TO THE REQUIRED LEVEL”: von Closen, 124.
35 “THIS DAY WILL BE FAMOUS IN THE ANNALS”: q. Davis, 82.
36 WASHINGTON’S JOURNEY TO MOUNT VERNON: Freeman, V, 324-7; Gallatin, 36-7.
37 WASHINGTON TO LAFAYETTE, “I HOPE YOU WILL KEEP”: q. Davis, 87.
38 TORNQUIST DESCRIBES WILLIAMSBURG COUNTRY AS “VERY FERTILE”: Tornquist, 75.
39 TORNQUIST ON MURDERED PREGNANT WOMAN: ibid., 57.
40 “GODLESS BEHAVIOUR OF THEIR ENEMIES”: ibid., 58.
41 UNBORN BABY HUNG FROM A TREE: Anonymous, 78.
42 WASHINGTON GOES TO MEET DE GRASSE: Tornquist, 64; Lewis, C. L., 172-5; Freeman, V, 334-6.
43 MON CHER PETIT GŃŃRAL: q. Stone, 410, from George Washington Parke Custis, Recollections.
44 INTERVIEW WITH DE GRASSE: Scott, Corres., 36-41.
45 FORDING THE SUSQUEHANNA: Von Closen, 125.
46 MR. WALKER REFUSING PAYMENT: ibid., 128.
47 “FIRE SHIPS”: James, B., 116-17; Tornquist, 64-6.
48 “ALARMED AND DISQUIETED … THE NAVY”: von Closen, 133.
49 DE GRASSE DECISION TO LEAVE: Doniol, V, 544; Scott, Corres., 45-7; von Closen, 134; Freeman, V, 340.
50 WASHINGTON’S LETTER OF “PAINFUL ANXIETY”: Scott, Corres., 48-50; Fitzpatrick, Writings, XXIII, 136-9.
51 DE GRASSE’S FLAG CAPTAINS “DID NOT APPEAR TO FULFILL THE AIMS WE HAD IN VIEW”: Scott,