CHAPTER VIII

THE FRENCH ALLIANCE PAGE

The four periods of the Revolutionary war 1-3

Consequences of Saratoga; consternation in England 4

Views of the different parties 5, 6

Lord North's political somersault 6

Strange scene in the House of Commons 7, 8

Treaty between France and the United States (February 6, 1778) 8, 9

Great Britain declares war against France (March 13) 10

Demand for Lord Chatham for prime minister 11, 12

The king's rage 12, 13

What Chatham would have tried to do 13, 14

Death of Chatham 14-16

His prodigious greatness 16-20

Lord North remains in power 20, 21

His commissioners in America fail to accomplish anything 22

Germain's new plan for conducting the war 22, 23