They therefore accepted the situation, and adopted all the suggestions of the commander-in-chief.

They also in the same reasonable frame of mind determined that Washington should select the next general for the southern army.

A good deal could have been saved had this decision been reached before; but even now it was not too late.

October 14, Washington appointed Greene to this post of difficulty and danger, and Greene's assumption of the command marks the turning-point in the tide of disaster, and the beginning of the ultimate expulsion of the British from the only portion of the colonies where they had made a tolerable campaign.
The uses of adversity, moreover, did not stop here.

They extended to the States, which began to grow more vigorous in action, and to show signs of appreciating the gravity of the situation and the duties which rested upon them.