They have been sensible of these advantages....

If they could by any demonstration in another part draw our attention and strength from this important point, and by anticipating our return possess themselves of it, the consequences would be fatal.

Our dispositions must therefore have equal regard to co-operating with you [at Boston] in a defensive plan, and securing the North River, which the remoteness of the two objects from each other renders peculiarly difficult."-- WASHINGTON to D'ESTAING, Sept.

11, 1778.
[120] Annual Register, 1778, p.

201.
[121] In this plate the plan followed in every other instance, of showing only the characteristic phases of a battle, in succession, but disconnected, has been abandoned, and the attempt is to indicate _continuously_ the series of manoeuvres and the tracks by which the fleets at last came into contact (from A to C).