Washington knew our weakness so well that he could see how easy it would be for a bold and determined enemy to do us great if not fatal harm.

But he did not know that the English themselves were in an almost desperate plight.

By Rodney's decisive victory at sea they began to recover their ascendancy against the Coalition, but it was then too late to disavow the treaty.

In Parliament George III had been defeated; the defeat meaning a very serious check to the policy which he had pursued for more than twenty years to fix royal tyranny on the British people.

King George's system of personal government, himself being the person, had broken down and he could not revive it.