Excerpt from Two Letters Respecting the Conduct of Rear Admiral Graves on the Coast of the United States: July to November, 1781 HE following Traet, concerning a very important event in the War of the American Revolution, was written by william graves, Efq., the eldeft brother of Admiral thomas graves, and privately circulated for the purpofe of defending the latter from the ferions charges which were brought againft him, fubfequent to the furrender by Lord cornwallis at Yorktown. Concerning the author of the Traet, very little is known beyond the faets that he was the eldeft (on of Captain thomas and elizabeth (budgell) graves; that he was a member of the Inner Temple, a Mafter in Chancery, and during feveral years a member of the Houfe of Commons, reprefenting the borough of Haft and Weft Looe, in Cornwall; and that he died at his Chambers, in the Inner Temple, in June, 1801, aged feventy - feven years. The prefent edition of the Traet is as perfeet a fac-fimile of the original as can now be made; and, with a hope that it will prove ufeful to thofe who {hall be engaged in the ftudy of the military hiftory of the United States, it is refpee'tfully iffued. H. B. D. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.