[82] Force, Am. Archives, 4th series, II, 365–368.
[83] Hatch, Administration of the Revolutionary Army, 1.
[84] Frothingham, Siege of Boston, 100–102.
[85] Ibid., 99–101.
[86] Bolton, The Private Soldier Under Washington, 90; Force, Am. Archives, 4th series, III, 2.
[87] Hatch, Administration of the Revolutionary Army, 13, 14.
[88] Frothingham, Siege of Boston, 105, 106.
[89] “Bunker Hill Monument celebrates a fact more important than most victories—namely, that the raw provincials faced the British army for two hours, they themselves being under so little organization that it is impossible to tell even at this day who was their commander; that they did this with only the protection of an unfinished earthwork and a rail fence, retreating only when their powder was out.... The newspapers of England, instead of being exultant, were indignant or apologetic.”—Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
[90] Later Bemis.
[91] “The surrender of Burgoyne turned the scale in favor of the Americans so far as the judgment of Europe was concerned.... The first treaty with France—which was also the first treaty of the United States with any foreign government—was signed February 6, 1778, two months after the news of Burgoyne’s surrender had reached Paris.”—Higginson’s History of the United States.