[121] Germain to Carleton, March 26, 1777, Add. MS. 21,697, f. 158; for Carleton's reply (May 20) and Germain's rejoinder (July 25) see _Report on Canadian Archives_ for 1885, pp. 132-37. [122] _Hist. MSS. Comm._, _App. to Report_, vi. (Strachey Papers), p. 402. [123] Jones, _History of New York_, i., 193, 219. [124] Washington, _Works_, v., 193 _sqq._, 239; _Galloway's Evidence_, pp. 21, 29. [125] Stedman, i., 309-11, 317. [126] Lieut. Hadden, _Journal and Orderly Books_, p. 153. [127] Howe to Germain, Jan. 20; Germain to Howe, May 18, 1777; _Howe's Narrative_, pp. 12-24. [128] _Life of Shelburne_, i., 358-59. [129] Germain to Carleton, March 26, 1777, Add. MS. 21,697, f. 161; _Howe's Narrative_, p. 15. [130] Howe to Carlton, April 2 and June 16, 1777, printed in _Fugitive Pieces_, p. 126; Howe to Burgoyne, July 17, in _Evidence Concerning the War_ (1779), pp. 77-78; _Howe's Narrative_, pp. 21-23; Howe's _Observations on Letters_, etc., p. 61; Fonblanque's _Burgoyne_, pp. 280-81. [131] Clinton to Burgoyne, Dec. 16, 1777, Fonblanque's _Burgoyne_, pp. 324-25; _Parl. Hist._, xix., 611. [132] Du Portail to the Comte de St. Germain, Nov. 12, 1777, Stedman, i., 386. [133] Correspondence between Germain and Howe, _Hist. MSS. Comm. Report_, vi., App., p. 402. [134] Here, and in other passages treating of the American revolutionary war, much valuable help has been given me by Colonel E. M. Lloyd, late R.E. CHAPTER X. WAR WITH FRANCE AND SPAIN.