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tions existing at that time and for sonic days subsequently, was quite serious in menacing Now York. But those conditions underwent a change in several radical regards. First, Clinton was re-enforced at New York by 3,000 Hessians from on the other hand Washington received no re-enforceEurope'ments while at Dobbs Ferry, although he was anxiously expecting some to arrive from Now England. Next, news came from Virginia which altered the whole complexion of things there. Cornwallis, finding his position perilous in the interior of thai State, was retreating to Yorktown, with the intention of intrenching himself there. At this juncture, should de Grasse enter the Chesapeake instead of New York Harbor, Cornwallis would be .aught between the American fleet and the Southern American land forces, in which eventuality it would probecome highly expedient for Washington and Rochambeau to York New at Clinton meantime And n. Yorktow ceed quicklv 'to dared not send relief to Cornwallis, but was obliged to look to his own