counter-manifesto of congress.... Arrival of Monsieur
Girard, minister plenipotentiary of France.... Hostilities of the
Indians.... Irruption into the Wyoming settlement.... Battle of
Wyoming.... Colonel Dennison capitulates for the inhabitants....
Distress of the settlement.... Colonel Clarke surprises St. Vincent....
Congress determines to invade Canada.... General Washington opposes the
measure.... Induces congress to abandon it.

CHAPTER IV.

Divisions in Congress.... Letters of General Washington on the state
of public affairs.... Invasion of Georgia.... General Howe defeated by
Colonel Campbell.... Savannah taken.... Sunbury surrenders.... Georgia
reduced.... General Lincoln takes command of the Southern army.... Major
Gardener defeated by General Moultrie.... Insurrection of the Tories
in South Carolina.... They are defeated by Colonel Pickens.... Ash
surprised and defeated.... Moultrie retreats.... Prevost marches
to Charleston.... Lincoln attacks the British at Stono Ferry
unsuccessfully.... Invasion of Virginia.

CHAPTER V.

Discontents in a part of the American army.... Letter from General
Washington on the subject.... Colonel Van Schaick destroys an Indian
settlement.... Expedition against the Indians meditated.... Fort Fayette
surrendered to the British.... Invasion of Connecticut.... General Wayne
storms Stony Point.... Expedition against Penobscot.... Powles Hook
surprised by Major Lee.... Arrival of Admiral Arbuthnot.... Of the Count
D'Estaing.... Siege of Savannah.... Unsuccessful attempt to storm that
place.... Siege raised.... Victory of General Sullivan at Newtown....
Spain offers her me[Pg v]diation to the belligerents.... Declares
war against England.... Letter from General Washington to congress
respecting the annual formation of the army.... The army goes into
winter quarters.

CHAPTER VI.

South Carolina invaded.... The British fleet passes the bar, and
gets possession of the harbour of Charleston.... Opinion of General
Washington on the propriety of defending that place.... Sir Henry
Clinton invests the town.... Tarleton surprises an American corps at
Monk's Corner.... Fort Moultrie surrendered.... Tarleton defeats
Colonel White.... General Lincoln capitulates.... Buford defeated....
Arrangements for the government of South Carolina and Georgia.... Sir
Henry Clinton embarks for New York.... General Gates takes command of
the Southern army.... Is defeated near Camden.... Death of De Kalb