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It seems the [English] nation is sick of [the war] ... but the King is obstinate.... The ministry, you will see, declare that the war in America is for the future to be only _defensive_. I hope we shall be too prudent to have the least dependence on this declaration. It is only thrown out to lull us; for, depend upon it, the King hates us cordially, and will be content with nothing short of our extirpation.
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My dear Papa, I am sulky with you ... yes, Mr. Papa, I am sulky. What! You capture whole armies in America, you burgoynize Cornwallis, you capture guns, ships, ammunition, men, horses, etc., etc., you capture everything and of everything, and only the gazette informs your friends, who go off their heads drinking your health, that of Washington, of independence, of the King of France, of the Marquis de Lafayette, of Mr. de Rochambeau, Mr. de Chastellux, etc., and you give them no sign of life!...
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Passy, 25 Décembre 1781.--Vous me boudés, ma chère amie, que je n'avois pas vous envoyé tout de suite l'histoire de notre grande victoire. Je suis bien sensible de la magnitude de notre avantage et de ses possibles bonnes conséquences, mais je ne triomphe pas. Sçachant que la guerre est pleine de variétés et d'incertitudes, dans la mauvaise fortune j'espère la bonne, et dans la bonne je crains la mauvaise.
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In vain is it to expect that our aim is to be accomplished by fond wishes for peace, and equally ungenerous and fruitless will it be for one State to depend upon another to bring this to pass. [57] French and American regiments remained, therefore, under arms and waited, but scarcely did anything on the continent but wait. For if George III was still for war, the mass of his people were not. Rochambeau availed himself of his leisure to visit the accessible parts of the country, give calls and dinners to his neighbors, study the manners and resources of the inhabitants, go fox-hunting
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states Closen. The different usages of the French and the Americans are for each other a cause of merriment.
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On New Year's Day the custom of the French to embrace, even in the street, caused much American laughter, but, the young aide observes with some spite,
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Bruton church, its old College of William and Mary, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, and the birthplace of the far-famed Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, its statue of the former English governor, Lord Botetourt,[58] in conspicuous marble wig and court mantle.
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America, behold your friend,
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The husbandman in his habitation is neither a castellated lord nor a tenant, but a landowner. It takes him thirty to forty years to rise from
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with the house
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as an intermediary stage, to the
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Labor is expensive and is paid a dollar a day. The country has three million inhabitants, but will easily support a little more than thirty, which was not such a bad guess since the thirteen States of Rochambeau's day have now thirty-seven. Men are fond of English furniture, and women
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In every part where the ravages of the war have not been felt people live at their ease,
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He takes notes on raccoons, investigates opossums, and visits a marsh
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and he sees them at work. He is also present at one of those cock-fights so popular then in the region,
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(the stinking one), and a careful description shows that, in any case, the name well fitted the animal. He also studies groundhogs on the same occasion. The charm and picturesqueness of wild life in American forests is a trait which French officers noted with amused curiosity in their journals. Describing his long journey on foot from the Chesapeake, where he had been shipwrecked, to Valley Forge, where he was to become aide to his Auvergnat compatriot, Lafayette, youthful Pontgibaud, with no luggage nor money left, sleeping in the open, writes of the beauty of birds, and the delightful liveliness of innumerable little squirrels,
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and elsewhere
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They reach the handsome house of the
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adorned with a colonnade,
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but, they said,
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The favorable impression left by an army permeated with the growing humanitarian spirit, is especially mentioned in several of those addresses:
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May Heaven, wrote
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To preserve in troops far removed from their own country the strictest discipline and _to convert into esteem and affection deep and ancient prejudices_ was reserved for you.... We view with regret the departure of troops which have so conducted, so endeared, and so distinguished themselves, and we pray that the laurels they have gathered before Yorktown may never fade, and that victory, to whatever quarter of the globe they direct their arms, may follow their standard.
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Your well-behaved and brave army has not only contributed to put an end to the success of the English in this country, but has destroyed in three years prejudices deep-rooted for three centuries.
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President and professors of the University of William and Mary, using a style which was to become habitual in France but a few years later, desired to address Rochambeau,
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and, after thanks for the services rendered and the payment made for the building destroyed
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they adverted to the future intellectual intercourse between the two nations, saying:
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Among the many substantial advantages which this country hath already derived, and which must ever continue to flow from its connection with France, we are persuaded that the improvement of useful knowledge will not be the least. A number of distinguished characters in your army afford us the happiest presage that science as well as liberty will acquire vigor from the fostering hand of your nation.
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You have reaped the noblest laurels that victory can bestow, and it is, perhaps, not an inferior triumph to have obtained the sincere affection of a grateful people.
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as the authors of the address said, such sentiments as to a possible intellectual intercourse, the French King sent to this university, as the college was then called,
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but, La Rochefoucauld adds after having seen them in 1796, they arrived greatly damaged,
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Fire has since completed the havoc, so that of the two hundred only two are now left, exhibited under glass in the library-museum of the college. They are parts of the works of Bailly, then of European fame as an astronomer and scientist, who was, however, to count in history for something else than his _Traité sur l'Atlantide de Platon_, for he was the same Bailly who a few years later presided over the National Assembly, sending to the royal purchaser of his works the famous reply:
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The nation assembled can receive no orders,