An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . named Egg Point, thesuccess was imperfect, a great part of the shipping having es-caped. On these occasions, plunder and outrage were practised toan unjustifiable extent against known privateers. The Americans,through the report of the French alliance, had obtained the evacua-tion of Philadelphia ; but in every other respect their hopes of thiscampaign had been greatly disappointe
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . named Egg Point, thesuccess was imperfect, a great part of the shipping having es-caped. On these occasions, plunder and outrage were practised toan unjustifiable extent against known privateers. The Americans,through the report of the French alliance, had obtained the evacua-tion of Philadelphia ; but in every other respect their hopes of thiscampaign had been greatly disappointed. Their pride, however,was gratified by the arrival at Philadelphia of the French ambassa-dor, Gerard, a highly respected individual, by whose agency chieilythe treaty had been concluded. N the course of this summer, the western countxyhad been the scene of most distressing events;the tories were driven, by the rigorous lawsenacted against them, to seek an asylum be-yond the limits of the colonies. There theyfound themselves among the Indians, a racealways bitterly hostile to the white borderers,and easily excited to the most daring enter-prises. The tories stimulated these allies to deeds of/nore than their. 384 CAMPAIGN OF 1778.
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