indicated that the “well-affected there had been defeated & dispersed.” Attacking Charleston “would be very difficult” and would do little to win back the larger province. He believed that a show of force in the Chesapeake before rejoining Howe for a concentrated campaign to secure New York was the wisest course. Further maneuvers in the South at this time would “only serve to inflame minds & sacrifice your friends to the rage and fury of the multitude.”
