[Index]
A
Abraham, Plains of (QC), American army on, [50].
Adams, Abigail, [49].
Adams, John, in Continental Congress, [8]; journey from Boston to Philadelphia, [9]-[10]; on committee to draft Declaration of Independence, [75]-[76]; excepted from British offer of pardon, [86], [92]; opinion of Philadelphia, [120], [165]; criticism of Washington, [149]; sent to Paris on American Commission, [270]-[271].
Albany (NY), plan to concentrate British forces at, [133].
Allen, Colonel Ethan, [40].
André, Major John, at Philadelphia, [195]; treats with Arnold, [241]-[242]; capture, [242]-[243]; hanged as spy, [243].
Annapolis (MD), Congress at, [275].
Anne, Fort (NY), [129].
Armed neutrality, [206].
Army, American, camp at Cambridge, [27]-[28]; Washington reorganizes, [30]-[35]; food and clothing, [30]-[31], [32] [153]-[156], [166]; composition, [31]-[32], [43]; officers, [32]-[35], [43]-[44]; after Canadian campaign, [51]; desertions, [100], [159]-[160]; plundering by, [111]; pay, [111], [158]-[159], [209]; in 1777, [112]; condition under Gates, [145]; Washington wishes national, [151]; needs of engineers, [152]; hospital service, [152]-[153], [166]-[167]; weapons and artillery, [156]-[158]; religion in, [160]-[161]; supplies from France, [184]; after Valley Forge, [197]; mutinous, [209], [246].
Army, British, food for, [36]; press-gangs, [176]; flogging, [176]; relations between officers and men, [176]-[177]; difficulties of raising, [178]; see also Germans.
Army, French, in America, [235]-[236].
Arnold, Benedict, at Ticonderoga, [40]; through Maine to Canada, [43], [44]-[45]; at Quebec, [45]-[46]; at Crown Point, [52]-[53]; Coke denounces King's reception of, [71]; Washington's trust in, [110], [172]-[173]; at Stillwater, [143]; describes American Army, [155]; treason, [173], [195], [240]-[243]; at West Point, [238]; life at Philadelphia, [239]; tried by court-martial, [239]; reprimanded by Washington, [239]-[240]; in Virginia, [251].
Articles of Confederation, [163].
Assanpink River (NJ), Washington on, [105].
Atrocities, [180], [212]; see also Indians, Prisons.
Augusta (GA), British take, [211]-[212]; falls to Americans, [250].
B
Baltimore (MD), Congress flees to, [100].
Barbados, Washington visits, [22].
Barras, French naval commander, [261].
Baum, Colonel, at Bennington, [131], [132].
Beaumarchais sends munitions to America, [183]-[184].
Bemis Heights (NY), battle, [143].
Bennington (VT), battle of [131]-[132].
Berthier, French officer, [231].
Biggins Bridge (SC), Tarleton's victory at, [216].
Bordentown (NJ), Germans at, [102].
Boston (MA), defiance of British in, [2]; seige, [3], [4], [35]-[36]; Washington's journey to, [9]-[10]; American camp, [27]-[28]; evacuated by British, [48]-[49]; effect of Washington's success at, [81]; Howe feigns setting out for, [114]; safe, [116]; Burgoyne's force at, [146]; Loyalists in, [212].
Braddock, General Edward, Washington with, [22]-[23].
Brandywine (PA) battle of, [119]-[120], [133], [148]; La Fayette at, [169]; Greene at, [171].
Brant, Joseph (Thayendanegea), [134].
Breed's Hill (MA) [4]-[5]; see also Bunker Hill.
Broglie, Comte de, suggested as commander of American army, [185].
Borglie, Prince de, with French armies in America, [232].
Brooklyn Heights (NY), Washington on, [88]-[91].
Buford, Colonel Tarleton attacks, [217].
Bunker Hill (MA), battle of, [4]-[7], [33]; Washington learns of, [10]; significance, [21]; officers at, [33], [35].
Burgoyne, General John, on British behavior at Bunker Hill, [7]; ordered to meet Howe, [68], [112], [113], [124]-[125]; Howe deserts, [116], [130]; life and character, [123]-[124]; at Lake Champlain, [125] et seq.; Indian Allies, [125]-[126], [138]-[140], [144]; takes Fort Ticonderoga, [127]; lack of supplies, [129]-[130]; at Fort Edward, [129]; [130], [141]; and Bennington, [131]-[132]; at Saratoga, [132], [141], [143]; learns of failure of St. Leger, [136]; crosses Hudson, [141]; at Stillwater (Freeman's Farm), [142]-[143]; surrender at Saratoga, [68], [122], [143]-[147], [149]; effect on France of surrender of, [186]; effect of surrender in England, [190], [192].
Burke, Edmund, and conciliation, [69]; and Independence, [190].
Byron, Admiral, sent to aid Howe, [200].
C
Cahokia (IL), Clark at, [223].
Cambridge (MA), American camp, [3], [27]-[28]; Washington at, [10], [30]-[31], [34], [35], [146].
Camden (SC), battle of, [219]-[220], [236].
Canada, campaign against, [37], [38]-[47]; Washington's idea of, [40] France and, [188]; Loyalists take refuge in, [227]-[228].
Carleton, Sir Guy, Governor of Canada, [42]; commands at Quebec, [45]-[46]; operations on Lake Champlain, [52]-[53]; Howe and, [95]; superseded by Burgoyne, [124]; commands at New York, [269]; and Loyalists, [274].
Carroll, Charles, of Carrollton, on commission to Montreal, [50].
Carroll, John, on commission to Montreal, [50].
Catherine II advises England against war, [179].
Catholics, Quebec Act, [38]-[39], [41]; disabilities in England, [208].
Chadd's Ford (PA), Washington at, [118], [119].
Champlain, Lake (NY), plan for conquest of Canada by way of, [43]; operations on, [52]-[53], [95]; Burgoyne at, [125] et seq.; Arnold at, [238].
Charleston (SC), on side of Revolution, [37]; British expedition to, [82]-[83]; Prevost demands surrender, [213]-[214]; Lincoln at, [215]-[217]; surrenders, [217].
Charlestown (MA), location, [3]; burned, [5], [7].
Charlotte (NC), Greene at, [247].
Charlottesville (VA), Cornwallis plans raid of, [252].
Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of, and conciliation with America, [69], [190]; political status, [192], [193].
Cherry Valley, massacre, [229].
Chesapeake Bay, Howe on, [116], [117]; see also Yorktown.
Chew, Benjamin, house as central point in battle at Germantown, [122].
Clark, G.R., expedition, [223].
Clinton, General Sir Henry, [236]; at Charleston, [82], [215]; at New York, [116], [130], [133]; up the Hudson, [143], [145]; succeeds Howe in command, [195]; march from Philadelphia, [196], [197], [198]; retreats at Monmouth Court House, [199]; reaches Newport, [202]; sails for Charleston, [217]-[218]; proclamation, [218]; Rodney relieves, [237]; and Cornwallis, [253]; delay in reinforcing Cornwallis, [262]-[263], [265].
Coke, of Norfolk, wealth, [20], [69]-[70]; and Toryism, [70]-[71]; on American question, [71]-[72]; and Washington, [71], [72], 189.
Colonies, attitude toward England, [55] et seq.; state of society in, [60]; population, [177]-[178]; see also names of colonies.
Continental Congress, Washington at, [1], [259]; selects leader for army, [7]-[9]; Howe's conciliation, [92]-[93]; flees to Baltimore, [100]; loses able men, [110]; hampers Washington, [100]; Gates and, [142]; repudiates Gates terms to Burgoyne, [146]; Gates lays quarrel with Washington before, [150]; and enlistment, [151]; at York, [162], [163]; ineptitude, [163]-[164], [236], [269]-[270], gives Southern command to Gates, [219]; Test Acts, [226]; and French alliance, [244]; borrows money from France, [271]; at Annapolis, [275]. Conway, General, and Stamp Act, [69].
Conway, General Thomas, [110]; “Conway Cabal” against Washington, [149], [150]; leaves America, [151].
Cornwallis, Lord, [230]; at Charleston, [82], crosses Hudson, [97]; goes to Trenton, [104]-[105]; at Princeton, [106]; and Howe, [115]; at the Brandywine, [119]; goes to Charleston, [216]; at Camden, [219]; in North Carolina, [221], [247]-[248]; proclamation, [249]; Guilford Court House, [249]; advance down Cape Fear River, [250]; in Virginia, [251]-[252]; and Clinton, [253]; Yorktown, [254] et seq.; surrender, [264]-[266].
Countess of Scarborough (ship), Jones captures, [205].
Cowpens (SC), battle of, [172], [248].
Cromwell, Oliver, as military leader, [170].
Crown Point (NY), capture of, [52]-[53]; Burgoyne at, [126].