human
It is in the Chesapeake Bay that it seems urgent to convey all the naval forces of the King, with such land forces as the generals will consider appropriate. This change cannot fail to have the most advantageous consequences for the continuation of the campaign, which consequences he points out with singular clear-sightedness, adding:
gpt
If the English follow us and can reach the bay only after us, their situation will prove very different from ours; all the coasts and the inland parts of the country are full of their enemies. They have neither the means nor the time to raise, as at New York, the necessary works to protect themselves against the inroads of the American troops and to save themselves from the danger to which the arrival of superior forces would expose them. If the plan submitted by him offers difficulties, others should be formed, but he maintains that
human
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gpt
; all those reasons and some others,
human
On the same day he was writing to La Luzerne:
gpt
I should be wanting in respect and confidence were I not to add that our object is New York.
human
The situation of the Southern States becomes every moment more critical; it has even become very dangerous, and every measure that could be taken for their relief would be of infinite advantage.... The situation of the Marquis de Lafayette and that of General Greene is most embarrassing, since Lord Cornwallis has joined the English division of the Chesapeake. If Virginia is not helped in time, the English will have reached the goal which they have assigned to themselves in the bold movements attempted by them in the South: they will soon have really conquered the Southern States.... I am going to write to M. de Grasse as you want me to do; on your side, seize every occasion to write to him, and multiply the copies of the letters you send him, that is, in duplicate and triplicate, for fear of loss or capture.
gpt
His coming to the rescue of the oppressed States is not simply desirable; the thing seems to be now of the most pressing necessity.