The people of those States felt that they had been abandoned by the Congress and that they were cut off from relations with the Northern States.

The glamour of glory at sea which had brightened them all the year before had vanished.

John Paul Jones might win a striking sea-fight, but there was no navy, nor ships enough to transport troops down to the Southern waters where they might have turned the tide of battle on shore.

During the winter the British continued their marauding in the South.

For lack of troops Washington was obliged to stay in his quarters near New York and feel the irksomeness of inactivity.