Fallen Founder
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Truxton, Commodore Thomas, 355–56
Tunis, ambassdor from, 234
Tupper, General, 359
Tyler, Comfort, 304, 315, 316, 350
U.S. Army, 108
U.S. Congress, 122, 123
U.S. Constitution, 2, 85, 86, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 174, 196; on election of president, 208–9; on treason, 326, 333, 336
United States Gazette, 297–99
U.S. House of Representatives, 116, 225
U.S. Senate, 105, 134; Burr’s farewell speech, 279–82
U.S. Supreme Court, 174, 245, 338
Utilitarianism, 105, 134, 373–74, 391, 413
Valley Forge, 42, 43, 47, 48, 62–63
Van Buren, Martin, 391–92, 394, 396, 399
Vanderlyn, John, 158–59, 240, 383; portrait of Burr, 270
Van Gaasbeek, Peter, 87, 109–10, 117, 143, 144
Van Ness, John, 246, 249
Van Ness, William P., 244, 246, 249, 250, 254, 257, 258, 259–60, 264, 265, 268, 391
Van Ness family, 391
Van Rensselaer, Stephen, 143
Varick, Richard, 184
Venable, Abraham, 120, 163
Venable, William Henry, A Dream of Empire of the House of Blennerhassett, 410–11
Vidal, Gore, Burr, 409, 410
Villette, Madame de, 168
Virginia, 92, 152–53, 214
Volney, Constantin-François Chasseboeuf, comte de, 159, 383
Voltaire, 75, 78, 168
Volunde, Nathalie de Lage de, 125–26, 159
War of 1812, 387, 391, 392
Washington, George, vii, 1, 2, 29, 93, 158, 246, 266, 337, 338, 389, 414
—as commander in chief of the Continental Army, 21, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33–36, 37, 38–40, 41, 42, 45, 46–47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 62, 63, 64–65, 66, 67, 68, 98, 106, 198, 229, 399
—as president (1789–97), 2, 78, 86, 97, 102–3, 104, 105, 106–7, 113, 116, 122, 190, 224, 329; second term, 16, 115, 118, 122, 125, 126, 127, 131, 136, 137, 140, 163, 170, 277, 339; and election of 1796, 146, 153
—as commander in chief of the U.S. army (1798), 168, 169, 170
Washington, Martha, 62, 67, 104, 122
Washington City, 78, 155–56, 225, 235
Watkins, John, 64
Wayne, Gen. Anthony, 45
Webster, Daniel, 396
Webster, Noah, 144, 145
Weeks, Ezra, 192
Weeks, Levi, murder trial, 191–96, 198, 199
Welty, Eudora, “First Love,” 411
Westchester County command, 49–52, 98
western expansion, 149–50, 285, 291, 296
Western Inland Lock Navigation Company, 181
Western World, 306
West Point, 40, 48–49
West Virginia, 93
Whigs, 51, 66, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 102; skinners, 49–50
Whiskey Rebellion (1794), 131–32, 140
Whitefield, George, 23
Wickham, John, 329–30, 331, 333–34, 336, 341, 344, 359–60, 361, 386
Wilkinson, Ann, 289
Wilkinson, Gen. James, 270, 286–87, 288–90, 292, 293, 294–95, 297, 302, 303, 305, 308, 311–15, 316, 319, 320, 322, 325–27, 328, 330, 332, 333, 335, 336, 337, 341, 342, 343, 344–45, 346, 347–49, 350, 351, 354, 355, 362–64, 369, 370, 411
Willett, Marinus, 87, 90, 101, 116, 117, 118, 130, 143, 156, 179, 233, 244, 268
Williams, Robert, 320, 322
Williamson, Alexander Charles, 371
Williamson, Charles, 290–91, 292, 302, 369–70, 371, 372, 375, 376
Wilson, James, 378
Wilson, John Lynde, 397
Wirt, William, 339–40, 341, 344, 351, 354, 359, 361, 362, 369, 404, 408
Wister, William, 233
Witherspoon, John, 10, 11, 72, 374
Wolcott, Oliver, 140, 148, 169, 210
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 74, 80, 82, 139, 212, 236, 240, 280, 374, 377, 380, 388; Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 72, 74–75, 80, 83
Wood, John, 244, 306, 310, 311
Woodbridge, Dudley, 359
Wooster, Gen. David, 20
Workman, Judge James, 311, 314, 402
Wright, Francis, 242
XYZ Affair, 168, 171
Yates, Eliza, 388
Yates, John Van Ness, 388
Yates, Peter, 264, 268, 269
Yates, Robert, 100, 103, 104, 108–9, 142, 143, 388
Young, Samuel, 51
Yrujo, marqués de, 299, 302, 303, 332, 375
Z, Madame, 383
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