Sullivan publicly denounced the French admiral as having basely deserted him and his own disgusted yeomanry left in hundreds for their farms to gather in the harvest.

In September, with d'Estaing safely away, Clinton sailed into Newport with five thousand men.

Washington's campaign against Rhode Island had failed completely.
The summer of 1778 thus turned out badly for Washington.

Help from France which had aroused such joyous hopes in America had achieved little and the allies were hurling reproaches at each other.

French and American soldiers had riotous fights in Boston and a French officer was killed.