During the less than two months which intervened between the organization and the untimely dissolution of that third Provincial Congress, [J/ay 18 to June 30, 1776,] the Northern Array was effectually driven from Canada; and all which had been promised and hoped for, in that very well planned, but premature and expensive, expedition, produced nothing else than disappointment and disaster, the latter as serious to those of the resident Canadians who had favored the invading Colonists, as it was to the latter. In South Carolina, the superior bravery of Colonel Moultrie and his handful of Carolinians, even when hampered by the superior authority but inferior practical knowledge of General Lee, had secured lasting honor to himself and to his gallant command and renewed safety to his own country ; and " though not " of much magnitude, in itself, it was, like many " other successes attending the American Arms, in " the commencement of the War, of great importance " in its consequences : by impressing on the Colonists " a conviction of their ability to maintain the con- " test, it increased the number of those who resolved " to resist British authority and assisted in paving " the way to a declaration of Independence." The Continental Congress had yielded to the teachings of its experience, and directed enlistments to be made for three years, instead of for six months; but ' that " zeal for the service which was manifested in the " first moments of the War, had long begun to abate; " and though the determination to resist became more " general, that enthusiasm which prompts individuals, " voluntarily, to expose themselves to more than " equal shares of the danger and hardships to be en- " countered for the attainment of a common good "was sensibly declining" -- in other words, there were more of those who were willing that somebody