University of Virginia Library

9211. YORKTOWN, Gratitude to France.—

If in the minds of any, the motives
of gratitude to our good allies were not sufficiently
apparent, the part they have borne in
this action [Yorktown] must amply evince
them.—
To General Washington. Washington ed. i, 314. Ford ed., iii, 51.
(M. 1781)