Washington felt that that part of the conflict was over.

He now hoped and believed that the moment would come, when, by uniting his army with the French, he should be able to strike the decisive blow.

Until that time came, however, he knew that he could do nothing on a great scale, and he felt that meanwhile the British, abandoning practically the eastern and middle States, would make one last desperate struggle for victory, and would make it in the south.

Long before any one else, he appreciated this fact, and saw a peril looming large in that region, where everybody was considering the British invasion as little more than an exaggerated raid.

He foresaw, too, that we should suffer more there than we had in the extreme north, because the south was full of Tories and less well organized.
All this, however, did not change his own plans one jot.