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INDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Adams, John
appointment as commissioner to Paris
appointment as peace commissioner
on Dean
on Arthur Lee
on Sherman
support for Constitution
temperament
Adams, Samuel
criticism of Deane’s supporters
on Deane’s officer commissions
flight from redcoats
leadership of Lee-Adams Junto
membership in Congress
Aitken, James “John the Painter,”
Alden, Philura Deane
Allen, Ethan
American colonies
British Coercive Acts
British occupation of Philadelphia
Bunker Hill
Fort Ticonderoga
French and Indian War
guns and gunpowder shortages
hardships
Lexington and Concord
raising of militias
tariffs and taxes
trade restrictions
Treaty of Paris
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American Revolution. See Continental Army; specific individuals
Amherst, Jeffrey
Aranda, Conde de
Arnold, Benedict
as British spy
Fort Ticonderoga seizure
friendship with Deane
on hardships of American forces
Philadelphia governor post
Saratoga victory
Austin, Jonathan Loring
Austria
alliance with France
dispute with Prussia
French declaration of war on
Bancroft, Edward
as British spy
Deane’s death and
as Deane’s physician
Deane’s trust in
at dockyard terrorism plot
as double agent
greed and duplicity
land syndicate
meetings with French foreign minister
theft of Deane’s letters
as translator for Deane and Beaumarchais
Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques
Barclay, Thomas
Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de
American Revolution, role in
American sympathies
arms trading business
arms trading front, Rodriguez and Hortalez
appeal for French funding
embargo of ships
payment
procurement of supplies and equipment
shipments
smuggling plan
arrest for conspiracy
Deane, defense of
Deane, partnership and friendship with
d’Eon negotiations
abandonment of
acceptance of mission
d’Eon’s gender identity
opening of
prolonging of
seduction tactic
success of
the Transaction
exposure of corruption in legal system
final years and death
French royal court, access to
inventiveness
on Lee’s deception of Congress
lifestyle
name change
negotiations with fictitious character
negotiations with Louis XV’s blackmailer
persecution by French revolutionaries
as playwright
wives and children