The Campaign in Virginia, 1781, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Stevens, Benjamin Franklin

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ISBN 10: 1332233309 ISBN 13: 9781332233304

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Campaign in Virginia, 1781, Vol. 1 of 2

Such a series of transactions evidently opens the way for abundant controversy and recrimination between the officers concerned. Was Cornwallis's march through the Carolinas and Virginia undertaken with Sir Henry Clinton's approbation or consent Upon his arrival in the Chesapeake, ought Clinton to have strongly reinforced him, even at the cost of aban doning New York or to have withdrawn his forces while there was time or, as he actually did, to have awaited events Was the unfortunate selection of York Town as headquarters the fault of Cornwallis or was he constrained by Clinton's instructions to occupy and fortify a good harbour Could the de fence have been better conducted and did Clinton use all possible Cxpedition and diligence in coming to Cornwallis's relief? These were the questions chiefly agitated in the pamphlets of which I have now to give a bibliographical account.

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Excerpt from The Campaign in Virginia, 1781, Vol. 1 of 2

These two volumes relating to the military controversy between Sir Henry Clinton and Lord Cornwallis will be found a valuable contribution to the history of the American campaign of 1781, by which the independence of the United States was virtually secured. They comprise: -

1. Reprints of five exceedingly rare pamphlets on the Clinton-Cornwallis Controversy, published in London in 1783, and a sixth with the official correspondence between these commanders, privately printed at New York in 1781. These six pamphlets are of such rarity that only one library, that of the Department of State at Washington, possesses all of them, and of the 'Parting Word' no other copy is known. All were purchased at the auction sales of two portions of Sir Henry Clinton's library in 1882 and 1884.

2. Innumerable important and hitherto unpublished Manuscript Notes made by Sir Henry Clinton in many separate copies of the pamphlets and in other books.

3. The full text of the omitted portions of the one hundred and eighty-three documents in the six pamphlets, now for the first time published, en tire whenever possible, from the manuscripts in the Public Record Office, the Royal Institution, the House of Lords, the bureaux des Affaires Etrangeres, de la Marine, and de la Guerre, Paris, and in the private collections of the Marquis of Lansdowne, Mrs. Stopford Sackville, and Lord Auckland.

4. A supplement containing: - a. Extracts from the Journals of the House of Lords from 27 Nov. 1781, to 6 March 1782.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1332233309
• ISBN 13: 9781332233304
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 541