Footnote 46: Colonel Morris's name does not appear in the resolution of Congress. See No. 11, page [50].[(Back)]
Footnote 47: See Introduction, page [x].[(Back)]
Footnote 48: These copies were obtained through the politeness of Baron de Zuijlen de Nijevelt, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Netherlands to France. The original record of the action of the State of Utrecht could not be found in the Royal Archives.[(Back)]
Footnote 49: The date should be October 8, not 7, as will be seen by the official documents below.[(Back)]
Footnote 50: Virgil, Æneid, Book VI, 620. This mutilated quotation is scarcely intelligible. The entire verse is: "Discite justitiam, moniti, et non temnere divos." (Admonished [by me], learn justice and not to despise the gods).[(Back)]
Footnote 51: See Introduction, page [x].[(Back)]
Footnote 52: Horace, Book III, Ode iv, 20.[(Back)]
Footnote 53: Dates of the surrender of the British armies at Saratoga and at Yorktown.[(Back)]
Footnote 54: See Introduction, pages [x], [xi], and [xxii].[(Back)]
Footnote 55: The surrender of Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown, which took place October 19, 1781.[(Back)]