Again, in the autumn, it was reported that the fleet was once more upon the northern coast.
Washington at once sent officers to be on the lookout at the most likely points, and he wrote elaborately to D'Estaing, setting forth with wonderful perspicuity the incidents of the past, the condition of the present, and the probabilities of the future.

He was willing to do anything, or plan anything, provided his allies would join with him.
The jealousy so habitual in humanity, which is afraid that some one else may get the glory of a common success, was unknown to Washington, and if he could but drive the British from America, and establish American independence, he was perfectly willing that the glory should take care of itself.

But all his wisdom in dealing with the allies was, for the moment, vain.

While he was planning for a great stroke, and calling out the militia of New England, D'Estaing was making ready to relieve Georgia, and a few days after Washington wrote his second letter, the French and Americans assaulted the British works at Savannah, and were repulsed with heavy losses.

Then D'Estaing sailed away again, and the second effort of France to aid England's revolted colonies came to an end.