An American history . ry friends in Philadelphia were spending a gay winterat fetes and balls while Washingtons destitute fragment of anarmy was shivering and starving at Valley Forge near by, never-theless the advantage of the winter of 1777-1778 was with theAmericans. 172. Great The attempts of the British both to crush Washingtons armyterms of and to sever the northern and southern colonies had failed. Thepeace, March, jixipossibility of occupying the country back of the few seaport towns, such as New York, Newport, and Philadelphia, beganto be apparent to the British ministry, as it had fr
An American history . ry friends in Philadelphia were spending a gay winterat fetes and balls while Washingtons destitute fragment of anarmy was shivering and starving at Valley Forge near by, never-theless the advantage of the winter of 1777-1778 was with theAmericans. 172. Great The attempts of the British both to crush Washingtons armyterms of and to sever the northern and southern colonies had failed. Thepeace, March, jixipossibility of occupying the country back of the few seaport towns, such as New York, Newport, and Philadelphia, beganto be apparent to the British ministry, as it had from the firstbeen apparent to many British merchants, who had advisedmaking the war a purely naval one, for the blockade of theAmerican ports and the destruction of their commerce. Theamiable Lord North, distressed as much by the prolongationof the war as by the disaster to Burgoyne, was allowed tosend an embassy to the American Congress early in 1778, con-ceding to the colonies every right they had contended for since. o X ?z < The Birth of the Nation 139 ^ J^V; Am) ?ne^ am^ ^ xJ^Q^i. the days of the Stamp Act, if they would only lay down theirarms and return to British allegiance. But Lord Norths offer came too late. The victory at Sara- 173. Thetoga had opened the eyes of another court and sovereign. The auce Febru- French ministry, which ^^ ^^GX .f^f^s,^^ for over a year had been /a^ refusing the repeated re-quests of the colonies foraid, uncertain whether theAmerican rebellion were aweapon strong enough touse in taking revenge onEngland for the humiliat-ing defeat of twenty yearsbefore, decided in the af-firmative after February, 1778, treatiesof commerce and alliancewere signed by the Frenchand American treaty of alliance (theonly one ever made by theUnited States) pledgedeach nation to continuethe war with Englanduntil the other was readyto make peace. The French alliancewas a great gain for the Euro^etnAmericans. By it the in-dependence of th
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