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ded to the election of a secretary for foreign affairs and the ballots being taken mr robert r livingston was elected having been previously nominated by mr william floyd xvi robert livingston would serve in this capacity for 19 months his office was constantly beset with frustration because the articles of confederation were very weak and diffused his foreign policy authority secretary livingston in an attempt to bolster the effectiveness of his office reported his challenges to the usca in hopes they would act on his recommendations instead the usca ever vigilant of the federal government having too much power over the states further restricted his authority to act president mckean wrote george washington a rather lengthy two days later appris ing him of both military key usca diplomatic measures and livingston s appointment sir private philadelphia by a vessel from cadiz last night we are informed that our minister at the spanish court as late as the 11th june had made but little progress in a negotiation with them they still appear friendly but aim at cessions we cannot make they give encouragement respecting money at sometimes again they are dis appointed and cannot promise anything certain they have however given mr jay lib erty to accept bills to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars but have no known funds appropriated for the payment in short their conduct appears rather insincere and mysterious our public dispatches are intercepted or obstructed in so much that a free correspondence is almost impracticable mr cardoqui was to set off from madrid for philadelphia sometime in june but his intentions of coming here have been so often announced and the delay not accounted for that mr jay will say nothing about him hereafter until he has actually sailed france acts a truly friendly part we shall certainly obtain from her this year twenty millions of livres four of which will be retained for doctor franklin to discharge the interest on loan office certificates two supplied in military stores c and the residue be subject to the directions of congress i have the strongest reasons to believe that colonel laurens is now on the ocean and has with him two millions and an half of this money in specie i pray most sincerely for his safe arrival it is yet more than probable that there will be a negotiation for a general peace sometime this fall the congress to assemble at vienna france has proposed that the united states of america shall have a minister or ministers plenipotentiary at the congress the emperor is afraid this proposition may obstruct a measure he has much at heart it has been suggested that if the united states are headed by memorial it would probably answer but to this france does not seem to consent the emperor was expected in june or july at paris on a visit the probable consequence of which is yet in dubio sweden and denmark have refused to assist the dutch with ships of war russia is undecided count panin the prime minister of russia is removed mr neckar s resignation has been accepted by his most christian majesty this great character was not agreeable to the court of spain nor to the officers at versailles he is said to have conducted with too much hauteur out of admiral rodney s thirty four ships laden with the plunder of st eustatia monsieur piquet has certainly captured twenty four and it is said that five more have been picked up by privateers the escort consisting of a 74 one 64 and two frigates with five of the convoy escaped by their swiftness in sailing an expedition was in great forwardness at cadiz to consist of eight sail of the line besides frigates c and eight or ten thousand land forces the destination unknown they were to sail in july and conjectured to be for the west indies or this continent by a letter from the marquis la fayette of the 6th from pamunky we have intelligence that lord cornwallis with the fleet formerly mentioned and an addition of whale boats carrying the greatest part of the british army have arrived in york river and landed at gloucester and yorktown which they now occupy your excellency is probably acquainted with their situation however the marquiss describes the one to be a small neck projected into the river the other surrounded by the river and a morass genl o hara commands at portsmouth the honorable robert r livingston was appointed by congress on friday last secretary for foreign affairs georgia has re established her government and south carolina is expected to be soon in capacity to do the same on august 14th george washington received word that the long awaited french fleet under admiral comte de grasse was sailing for the chesapeake bay consisting of 34 warships with trans ports carrying 3200 troops prepared to advance his army south the arrival of admiral comte de grasse was expected in mid september washington along with rochambeau now had to qui etly move forces from rhode island to new jersey without alarming the british fleet and general clinton their plans were on virginia it was now mid august and the last orders that lt general charles cornwallis received from general henry clinton was over a month ago to establish defenses at old point comfort general cornwallis deemed the point indefensible and chose to make yorktown his main position setting up only a support camp across the york river in gloucester by the end of august cornwallis suc cessfully deployed his entire force to these two positions which provided him an easy route to any port via the sea thomas mckean wrote richard henry lee of virginia on august 13th apprising him of current events virginia i find has not yet experienced all the calamities of war lord cornwallis appears to be determined on still greater mischief i pray god to give you patience fortitude in this severe trial and to enable you to work out your deliverance the enemy must become weaker every day and we shall certainly grow stronger we are at present very low with respect to finance but it is with infinite pleasure i can inform you that we have very fair prospects on that head from abroad as well as at home france has lately given further proof that she is a faithfull ally i cannot be more particular spain continues to act an interested and mysterious part but must in the end close with us the united provinces of the netherlands appear to be very friendly but they are tedious in their deliberation slow in execution president mckean with no communication from the besieged virginia governor thomas jefferson decided also to write a second letter re informing him of his appointment as foreign secretary on august 20th my predecessor sent you the copy of a vote of congress of the 14th of june last appointing you a minister for negotiating a peace as no answer had been yet received a doubt has taken place whether the information had reached you and therefore i now inclose you a duplicate permit me sir to congratulate you on this evidence of the full confidence and esteem of your country and to hope that so very honorable an appointment may meet with your acceptance i am sir with the most respectful attachment your most obedient humble servant tho m kean president on august 21st 1781 washington and 2700 continental troops crossed the hudson river to stony point new york general comte de rochambeau french forces completed their crossing on august 25th tactically washington left a detachment of forces to cover his departure with an order to withdraw and protect the hudson highlands under maj general william heath once they safely crossed general clinton who observed the deployment made no movement to coun teract the shifting continental forces away from new york city on august 23rd president mckean informed washington portsmouth is said to be evacuated and lord cornwallis is still fortifying at yorktown and glocester he is otherwise very quiet of this however we have no official accounts it is re ported that general sumpter and colonel lee have had an action with a party of the enemy to the southward of monk s corner i think at dorchester in south carolina that they have taken about one hundred and forty prisoners and killed near an hundred some waggons and stores were also taken no account of this affair has been received from general greene by congress but it comes in such a manner as to gain credit i am possessed of a letter written by a richard nash on board the terrible at antigua dated the 6th instant to his father on bo ard the london at new york informing him that sir samuel hood with the greatest part of the fleet there would sail in a few days for new york from other accounts i learn that admiral rodney had sailed for england with three ships of the line that admiral hood had dispatched a frigate for st lucia bay for six men of war and that he purposed to sail for new york at the return of the frigate i apprehend that richard nash is captain or a lieutenant on board the terrible from his requesting his father to present his compliments to admiral graves and that the father is master of the london for the letter is directed to him as n m of the ship london these minutia are mentioned that you may be enabled to form the better judgment of this intelligence on august the 25 th plagued by states not sending their delegate quota and with the full knowl edge of george washington s military intentions president mckean wrote each state legislature the act of congress of the 23d instant of which you have a copy enclosed was occa sioned by five states being unrepresented at this important period we are at the eve of great events and the collected wisdom of the united states was perhaps seldom more wanted i flatter myself therefore the public good will so far prevail over every other consideration that the delegates from your state or two of them at least will give their attendance in congress without delay your good offices on this occasion will i rest assured be successfully exerted three days later general washington used his light infantry to ruse a maneuver towards staten island on august 29 the infantry then turned to sandy hook appearing to meet the french fleet on august 30th the troops abandoned the maneuver and headed for princeton nj where the combined french and continental army prepared to march for philadelphia general clinton realizing washington was now headed to philadelphia assumed that they were preparing for a defense of that city against the feigned british attack clinton dispatched a letter to general cornwallis apprising of the movements the strategy delayed the british from supporting cornwallis position in philadelphia general arthur st clair who was ordered to recruit and train troops for the yorktown effort requested money from the congress to pay the soldiers now under his command the matter had been referred to a congressional committee and on august 28th the members learned from the superintendent of finance robert morris that no money was available to pay st clair s troops the committee then recommended that the general s request be referred to the pennsylvania council on the 30th president mckean wrote the president of the supreme council of pennsylvania joseph reed your excellency has enclosed herewith an act of congress of yesterday together with a letter from major general st clair to be laid before council it gives the greatest uneasiness to congress that their funds at present will not enable them to expedite the march of the troops mentioned by the general but they hope you will be able to devise some means to accomplish this desirable purpose president chief justice thomas mckean continued october 20 1781 military captain commission signed by thomas mckean as president of the united states in congress assembled the congressional evolution of the united states of america continental congress of the united colonies presidents sept 5 1774 to july 1 1776 peyton randolph september 5 1774 october 22 1774 henry middleton october 22 1774 october 26 1774 peyton randolph may 20 1775 may 24 1775 john hancock may 25 1775 july 1 1776 commander in chief united colonies states of america george washington june 15 1775 december 23 1783 continental congress of the united states presidents july 2 1776 to february 28 1781 john hancock july 2 1776 october 29 1777 henry laurens november 1 1777 december 9 1778 john jay december 10 1778 september 28 1779 samuel huntington september 29 1779 february 28 1781 presidents of the united states in congress assembled march 1 1781 to march 3 1789 samuel huntington march 1 1781 july 6 1781 samuel johnston july 10 1781 declined office thomas mckean july 10 1781 november 4 1781 john hanson november 5 1781 november 3 1782 elias boudinot november 4 1782 november 2 1783 thomas mifflin november 3 1783 june 3 1784 richard henry lee november 30 1784 november 22 1785 john hancock november 23 1785 june 5 1786 nathaniel gorham june 6 1786 february 1 1787 arthur st clair february 2 1787 january 21 1788 cyrus griffin january 22 1788 january 21 1789 presidents of the united states of america d democratic party f federalist party i independent r republican party r republican party of jefferson w whig party george washington i jefferson davis d franklin d roosevelt d 1789 1797 1933 1945 andrew johnson r john adams f 1865 1869 harry s truman d 1797 1801 1945 1953 ulysses s grant r thomas jefferson r 1869 1877 dwight d eisenhower r 1801 1809 1953 1961 rutherford b hayes r james madison r 1877 1881 john f kennedy d 1809 1817 1961 1963 james a garfield r james monroe r 1881 1881 lyndon b johnson d 1817 1825 1963 1969 chester arthur r john quincy adams r 1881 1885 richard m nixon r 1825 1829 1969 1974 grover cleveland d andrew jackson d 1885 1889 gerald r ford r 1829 1837 1973 1974 benjamin harrison r martin van buren d 1889 1893 james e carter jr d 1837 1841 1977 1981 grover cleveland d william h harrison w 1893 1897 ronald w reagan r 1841 1841 1981 1989 william mckinley r john tyler w 1897 1901 george h w bush r 1841 1845 1989 1993 theodore roosevelt r james k polk d 1901 1909 william j clinton d 1845 1849 1993 2001 william h taft r zachary taylor w 1909 1913 george w bush r 1849 1850 2001 2009 wilson woodrow d millard fillmore w 1913 1921 barack h obama d 1850 1853 2009 2017 warren g harding franklin pierce d 1921 1923 donald j trump r 1853 1857 20017 present calvin coolidge r james buchanan d 1923 1929 confederate states of america 1857 1861 herbert c hoover r abraham lincoln r 1929 1933 1861 1865 chart comparing presidential powers click here united colonies and states first ladies 1774 1788 united colonies continental congress president 18 th century term age elizabeth betty harrison randolph 1745 1783 peyton randolph 09 05 74 10 22 74 29 mary williams middleton 1741 1761 deceased henry middleton 10 22 26 74 n a elizabeth betty harrison randolph 1745 1783 peyton randolph 05 20 75 05 24 75 30 dorothy quincy hancock scott 1747 1830 john 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