On 27 August 1778, Henry Laurens of South Carolina, serving as President of the Continental Congress, wrote to Georgia Governor John Houston about St. Augustine, the capital of British East Florida:
While St. Augustine remains in possession of the Enemy, Georgia will be unhappy, and her existence as a free and Independent State rendred very doubtful. South Carolina too will be continually galled by Rovers and Cruizers from that Pestiferous nest--another Expedition must therefore be undertaken at a season of the Year which will not out vie the bullets and bayonets of the Enemy in the destruction of our Men.
Henry Laurens to John Houston, 27 August 1778, in Paul H. Smith, editor, Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 10: June 1, 1778-September 30, 1778 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1983), page 409.
While St. Augustine remains in possession of the Enemy, Georgia will be unhappy, and her existence as a free and Independent State rendred very doubtful. South Carolina too will be continually galled by Rovers and Cruizers from that Pestiferous nest--another Expedition must therefore be undertaken at a season of the Year which will not out vie the bullets and bayonets of the Enemy in the destruction of our Men.
Henry Laurens to John Houston, 27 August 1778, in Paul H. Smith, editor, Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 10: June 1, 1778-September 30, 1778 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1983), page 409.
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