Carolina QuotesAlarms begin to operate a little. The fond hopes of instantaneously subduing America are very much subsided. The Conduct of France begins to be deemed liable to suspicion.
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham Connected to the Carolinas
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Letter to the Duke of Portland (4 March 1777), quoted in S. Arthur Strong, A Catalogue of Letters and other Historical Documents Exhibited in the Library at Welbeck (1903), p. 134
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