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12.
CHATHAM PREDICTED FRENCH ENTRY:
q. Donne, editor’s preface to
Correspondence of George III with Lord North, II, 9
.

13.
RICHMOND, “I FEEL VERY LANGUID”:
11 Dec 75, q. olson, 169.
TO BURKE ON A FRENCH PEERAGE:
Burke,
Correspondence
, II, 118, 120.

14.
FOX, “ON THE ROCKINGHAM WHIGS”:
q. ibid., II, 182.
BURKE, “PLENTIFUL FORTUNES”:
ibid.

15.
WASHINGTON, “NOW THE WHOLE FORCE OF NEW ENGLAND”:
to General Putnam,
Writings of George Washington
, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, USGPO, 1931–1944, IX, 115.

16.
CHATHAM SPEECH OF 20 NOV 77:
Hansard, XIX, 360–75.

17.
FOX, “ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE”:
ibid., 431–2.

18.
CHATHAM SPEECH OF 11 DEC
77: q. Donne in
CORRESPONDENCE OF GEORGE III WITH LORD NORTH
, II, 114.

19.
“YOU HAVE NO IDEA,” LETTER TO SELWYN:
q. Valentine,
Germain
, 265.
“UNIVERSAL DEJECTION”:
ibid,
GIBBON, “IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR SHAME”:
Walpole,
Last Journals
, II, 76.

20.
GERMAIN, “WILFUL BLINDNESS”:
q. Valentine,
Germain
, 275.

21.
GEORGE III, “I KNOW THAT I AM DOING MY DUTY”:
26 July 75,
Correspondence
, III, no. 1683.

22.
PRAYED HEAVEN “TO GUIDE ME”:
ibid., no. 3923.

23.
GERMAIN’S CARRIAGE HORSES:
Fitzmaurice, I, 358; Valentine,
Germain
, 284.

24.
PEACE COMMISSION PROPOSALS:
Hansard, XVIII, 443.
“FULL MELANCHOLY SILENCE,” AND “IGNOMINIOUS”:
Walpole,
Last Journals, II, 200. Dr. Johnson, “Such a Bundle of Imbecility”:
q. Robertson, 174.
IGNOMINIOUS DAY:
Walpole to Mann, 18 Feb 78.

25.
ROCKINGHAM AND RICHMOND, “INSTANTLY AND PUBLICLY”:
Olson, 172–3.

26.
CHATHAM’S LAST SPEECH:
Hansard, XIX, 7 Apr 78.
HIS DEATH:
Plumb,
Chatham
, 156; Robin Reilly,
William Pitt the Younger
, New York, 1979, 52; Dr. Addington: Williams,
Pitt
, II, 242–3.

27.
PREDICTIONS OF RUIN: SHELBURNE:
q. Miller, 453;
RICHMOND TO ROCKINGHAM:
15 Mar 78, q. Olson, 172–3. Walpole,
“MISERABLE LITTLE ISLAND”:
q. Miller, 396.

28.
BURKE, TO ROCKINGHAM:
25 Aug 75, q. ibid., 453.

29.
FOX, “IN A MANNER CONSISTENT”:
q. Derry, 87. Walpole, “Too Inert”;
Correspondence
, to Mann, 30 June 79. Fox,
“DESPISED EVERYWHERE”:
q. Derry, 75.

30.
CARLISLE PEACE COMMISSION:
q. Brown, 266.

31.
HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER CAROLINE:
q. Brown, 266;
“OUR OFFERS OF PEACE”:
ibid., 263;
PUBLIC PROCLAMATION OF 3 OCT 78:
Stevens,
Facsimiles
, XI, no. 1171–2;

32.
CARLISLE’S FIRST DRAFT:
29 Sept 78, ibid.,V, no. 529;
CONGRESS RECOMMENDS PROCLAMATION PUBLISHED:
ibid., XII, 1200–01.

33.
EDEN, “THIS NOBLE COUNTRY”:
Miller,
Triumph
, 5.
TO WEDDERBURN, “IT IS IMPOSSIBLE”:
ibid.

34.
YORKSHIRE PETITION:
Feiling, 135–6.
DUNNING RESOLUTION:
Trevelyan, I, 216.

35.
CONWAY’S MOTION:
Jesse, III, 357; Feiling, 141; all sources.

36.
GEORGE III, PROPOSED ABDICATION:
Namier,
Crossroads
, 125.

37.
ONLY NEGOTIATOR RICHARD OSWALD:
Allen, 254 (here erroneously named James).

38.
GEORGE HI, “DISMEMBERMENT OF AMERICA”:
to Shelburne, 10 Nov 82,
Correspondence
, VI, no. 3978.

39.
ADAMS, “PRIDE AND VANITY”:
letter written from Holland in 1782, q. Allen, 255; see also Miller,
Triumph, 6
32.

40.
ROCKINGHAM, “TACIT COMPACT”:
q. Guttridge, 73–4.

41.
IF HAMLET AND OTHELLO HAD BEEN REVERSED:
J. G. Adams, q. by William Willcox,
Portrait of a General
(Sir Henry Clinton), New York, 1964, xi.

Chapter Five
AMERICA BETRAYS HERSELF IN VIETNAM

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