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We are not able yet to give you any account of the wandering Howe and his fleet, save that they were seen on the 7th instant off Sinapuxen stearing Southward. Our accounts from France say that George depends much on the desperate efforts that Howe & Cornwallis must make to redeem their Bankrupt honor. His present Manoeuvre seems the effort of a despairing Bankrupt — For what good can result...
Date: 17 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9
. . . After Gen. Howe had long raised the curiosity of this part of the world, to know what could be his view in imbarking his army and coasting it for 5 weeks in a most oppressively hot season; at length, he appears at the very head of Chesapeak Bay where he remains with more than 200 sail of Vessels — His Troops not yet landed that we know of, but imagined they were put on shore yesterday. We...
Date: 25 August 1777
Volume: Volume 9