e defeated. Sullivan then penetrated into
the very heart of their country, where his followers destroyed houses,
corn-fields, gardens, fruit-trees, and everything that would afford
sustenance to man or beast. Such were the positive orders of congress,
and Sullivan proved himself to be their willing agent in the evil work.
Congress passed a vote approving his conduct, but Washington, whose
exertions were crippled by the expedition, in consequence of the great
force employed in it, inveighed bitterly against it, and in the end
Sullivan retired from public service in disgust. While this terrible
chastisement was inflicted on the tribes northward of Pennsylvania and
New York, similar expeditions were Kent out from the southern provinces
for the same purpose. On the other hand, whilst the Americans were
spreading devastation and laying waste the towns of their savage
enemies, the Indians, whose appetite for revenge was whetted by their
disasters, made incursions into the provincial settlements, and made
severe retaliation.

SPANISH INCURSIONS.

As Spain had concealed her hostile intentions towards England until
preparations for war were completed, it was not a matter of surprise to
see her commencing hostilities on the other side of the Atlantic, with
all the advantages of early information and previous design. No sooner
was war announced than Don Bernardo Galvez, Governor of Louisiana, made
an incursion into West Florida, and invested and captured a British fort
garrisoned with five hundred men, at the mouth of the Ibbeville. The
fate of almost the whole of the Mississippi was involved in the fall of
this fort, for the Spaniards overran a district of 1200 miles in extent;
and only left the eastern part of the province, with the strong fort of
Mobile untouched. With equal alacrity the Spanish Governor of Honduras
commenced hostilities against the British cutters of logwood in the Bay
of Honduras, and plundered the principal establishment at St. George's
Key. The logwood-cutters, who were chiefly sailors and men of a
daring spirit, retreated before the Spaniards, and kept together in an
inaccessible place, until the Governor of Jamaica dispatched Captain
Dalrymple, with a small body of Irish volunteers, to convey to them
a supply of arms. Sir Peter Parker dispatched a sloop of war to
co-operate, and this sloop, having taken Dalrymple and his party on
board, quickly drove the Spaniards from St. George's Key and all
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