. Cornwallis arrives.... Presses Lafayette.... Expedition
to Charlottesville, to the Point of Fork.... Lafayette forms a junction
with Wayne.... Cornwallis retires to the lower country.... General
Washington's letters are intercepted.... Action near Jamestown.[Pg vii]

CHAPTER XI.

Farther state of affairs in the beginning of the year 1781.... Measures
of Mr. Morris, the superintendent of finances.... Designs of General
Washington against New York.... Count Rochambeau marches to the North
River.... Intelligence from the Count de Grasse.... Plan of operations
against Lord Cornwallis.... Naval engagement.... The combined armies
march for the Chesapeake.... Yorktown invested.... Surrender of Lord
Cornwallis.

NOTES.

Footnotes.

ILLUSTRATIONS

George Washington, by Gilbert Stuart
Martha Washington, by Gilbert Stuart
George Washington, by John Trumbull
The Ruins of Stony Point--On the Hudson
Beverly Robinson Mansion at West Point
Where Washington Stayed During Andre's Trial
The Moore House at Yorktown, Virginia

LIFE OF WASHINGTON, Volume IV.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

Greene invests Camden.... Battle of Hobkirk's Hill.... Progress of
Marion and Lee.... Lord Rawdon retires into the lower country.... Greene
invests Ninety Six.... Is repulsed.... Retires from that place....
Active movements of the two armies.... After a short repose they resume
active operations.... Battle of Eutaw.... The British army retires
towards Charleston.

CHAPTER II.

Preparations for another campaign.... Proceedings in the Parliament of
Great Britain. Conciliatory conduct of General Carleton.... Transactions
in the south.... Negotiations for peace.... Preliminary and eventual
articles agreed upon between the United States and Great Britain....
Discontents of the American army.... Peace.... Mutiny of a part of the
Pennsylvania line.... Evacuation of New York.... General Washington
resigns his commission and retires to Mount Vernon.

CHAPTER III.

General Washington devotes his time to rural pursuits.... to the duties
of friendship.... and to institutions of public utility.... Resolves of
Congress and of the Legislature of Virginia for erecting statues to
his honour.... Recommends improvement in inland navigation.... Declines
accepting a donation made to him by his native state.... The society of
the Cincinnati.... He is elected President.... The causes which led to
a change of the governme