Public Advertiser, London, 364
Purkitt, Henry, 183
Purple Heart, 536
Putnam, Israel, 252, 309, 458, 505
at Bunker Hill, 273, 276, 278, 279, 281, 284–86, 290
at Long Island, 379–81
in New York defense, 393–95
at Philadelphia, 401, 409, 425
“Qo’hees,” 67
Quakers, 206, 211, 213, 336, 340, 410, 475
Quebec, 316, 319, 406, 474, 476
expedition against (1775), 315–22, 342, 373, 378, 442, 474
Quebec Act (1774), 315, 357, 548
Quincy, Dorothy (Dolly), 217, 221, 228, 263–64
at Lexington, 235, 237–38, 240–41
marriage to Hancock, 306, 553
Quincy, Hannah, 146–47, 217
Quincy, Josiah, 61, 149–50, 155–59, 172–73, 217, 265–66
Quincy, Samuel, 146, 156
Rall, Johann Gottlieb, 407–8, 413–418, 422, 494
Randolph, John, 42–44
Randolph, Peter, 70
Randolph, Peyton, 42–44, 69–70, 202–3, 208, 222, 267, 306–7
Randolph, William, 345
Raynal, Abbé Guillaume, 557
Reed, James, 277
Reed, Joseph, 304, 376, 396, 402–3, 409
Regulators, 341
Reid, Thomas, 355
Reprisal, 433
Revere, Paul, 87, 112, 154–55, 176, 495, 552–53
at Boston Tea Party, 179, 183–84
and Church, 253, 311
his ride to warn patriots, 224–27, 229–38, 241
Revere, Paul, Jr., 495
Rhode Island Colony, 16, 50, 64, 166–70, 255, 369
Richardson, Ebenezer, 129, 139
Richmond, Va., 221, 512–13
Rights of the Colonies Asserted and Proved (Otis), 49, 355
Riot Act, 137–38
Rippon, H.M.S., 118
Rivoire, Apollos, 226
Robertson, James, 523
Robinson, John, 68, 69, 121–23
Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de, 519, 521–25, 530–32, 535, 539–40
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 83–84, 86, 92
Roderigue, Hortalez et Compagnie, 432–33
Rodney, Sir George, 524
Romney, H.M.S., 96–98
Rotch, Francis, 177–79
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 435
Rowe, John, 88
Royal Society of London, 347, 436
Ruggles, Timothy, 24, 73–75
Rush, Benjamin, 207, 338, 391, 431, 460, 461, 463
Russia, 407, 544, 547
Rutledge, Edward, 211, 343, 368, 370, 372, 391
St. Clair, Arthur, 417
St. Croix, 124
St. Eustatius, 90
St. Johns, Canada, 316
St. Lawrence River, 318–19, 442
Saints Passage, naval battle of, 556
Salem, Mass., 14, 15, 102, 148, 189, 197–99, 217
Saltonstall, Dudley, 552
Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 216
Sandy Hook, 485, 494
Sanford, Grizell, 60
Santo Domingo, 525
Saratoga, N.Y., 443, 452–57, 458, 462, 465, 495, 538
Scammell, Alexander, 388
Schuyler, Philip, 304, 309, 456, 505, 517
and Canada expedition, 315, 316, 326, 442
and Gates, 439, 442, 444, 446
Sessions, Darius, 169–70
Sessions, Robert, 183
Seven Years’ War, 28, 37–38, 48
see also French and Indian War
Shelburne, Sir William Petty, Earl of, 549, 550–51
Sherman, Roger, 344
She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith), 337
Shippen, Edward, 475, 500
Shippen, Peggy, see Arnold, Peggy Shippen
Silverheels, 296
Six Nations, 296, 298
Skinners, 503–4
Small, William, 347
Smith, Francis, 228, 233, 238–39, 240–43, 246–48, 250
Smith, Captain John, 532
Snider, Christopher, 129–30, 153
Solemn League and Covenant, 197
Somerset, H.M.S., 230, 250
Sons of Liberty, origin of name, 51
South Carolina, 185, 341, 356, 369, 513, 519
see also Charleston, S.C.
Spain, 432, 466, 544–45, 547–49
Spectator, The, 147
Spirit of Laws, The (Montesquieu), 19
Sprague, Samuel, 183
Springfield, Mass., 102, 434
Stamp Act, 50, 51, 77, 83, 105, 171, 356
protests, 52–65, 67–70, 71–72, 75–81, 84, 91–93, 110, 147, 148, 355
repeal of, 81, 84–87, 91, 99, 175
Stamp Act Congress, 71–75
Stanislas II Poniatowski, King of Poland, 86, 330
Stark, John, 277, 278, 280–83, 285, 442
Star-Spangled Banner, 534
Staten Island, N.Y., 375, 392, 407, 521–23, 526
Stephen, Adam III, 413
Sterne, Laurence, 350
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm von, 469–70, 476, 487, 513
Stevens, Ned, 124
Steward, Walter, 496
Stirling, William Alexander, “Lord,” 379–80, 381–85, 390, 391, 409, 417, 460, 461, 467
Stony Point, N.Y., 496
Stormont, Lord, 433–34
Story, William, 59
Straham, William, 324
Strickland (executioner), 509
Suffolk Resolves, 214–15
Sugar Act, 48–50, 94
Sullivan, John, 378–85, 404, 405, 495, 496
at Brandy wine and Germantown, 440–41, 460
and British overtures, 390–92, 505
in Trenton raid, 411–12, 415–17
Summary View of the Rights of British America, A (Jefferson), 202–3, 344
Surinam, 90
Sutherland, Lieutenant Colonel, 454–455
Sweden, 544
Swift, Samuel, 75–76
Sylvester, Richard, 98, 115
Tallmadge, Benjamin, 507
Tappan, N.Y., 507
Tarleton, Banastre, 404–6, 441, 514–516, 533, 536
Temple, John, 185
Terrible, H.M.S., 529–30
Thacher, Oxenbridge, 22, 25, 61, 70–71, 73
Thayer, Amos, 132
Thomas, Isaiah, 217, 225
Thomson, Charles, 208, 209–10, 213, 266, 562
Thornton, John, 435
Thunder, H.M.S., 332
Thurlow, Attorney General, 189
Ticonderoga, Fort, 256, 258–62, 265, 327, 439, 442
Tilghman, Tench, 517–18, 519
Townshend, Charles, 28, 84, 92–93, 99
see also Townshend Acts
Townshend Acts, 93–105 passim, 174
Trenton, N.J., 400, 406, 407–19, 422, 425–26
Tryon, William, 341
Two Penny Acts, 40–41, 44–46
Tyler, John, 516–17
Tyler, Royall, 98, 132
Union Feast, 75
Valencia de Alcántara, 273
Valley Forge, 467–72, 476–78
Van Wart, Isaac, 503–4
Varick, Richard, 501, 504
Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de, 323–24, 430, 432–34, 436, 493, 547–51
Vernon, Edward, 292
Ville-de-Paris, 526, 531
Virginia, 38–47, 369, 510–12
primogeniture in, 511–12
protests in, 58, 66–71, 197, 202–3, 356
slavery in, 203, 304, 357–58, 369, 554–55
state constitution of, 329, 352–54
war in, 512–16, 52off.
Western claims of, 295–98, 371, 372, 518
see also Burgesses, House of
Virginia Resolves (resolutions on Stamp Act), 68–71, 73, 77
Virginia Revolutionary Convention, 221–23
Vulture (
British sloop), 505–6
Waldo, Albigence, 467
Walker, John, 348–49
Walker, Patrick, 130–32, 138
Walpole, Horace, 542
Walpole, Sir Robert, 29, 48
Ward, Artemas, 252, 269, 273, 277, 290, 309
Ware case, 21
Warner, Seth, 260
Warren, James, 170, 309, 320, 342, 551, 557
Warren, Joseph, 109, 148, 197, 231, 267– 68
and Samuel Adams, 34, 104, 214, 225–26, 287, 310, 437
attacks Bernard, 104
and Boston Massacre, 155, 191, 217–18
and Breed’s Hill, 277, 279–81, 286–287
and Bunker Hill, 272, 273
at Cambridge with army, 252–53, 258–59, 265
death of, 286–87, 437
and Lexington battle, 250–52
and Revere’s warnings, 225–27, 229, 230
his Suffolk Resolves, 214–15
and tea boycott, 173, 177, 179
Warren, Mercy Otis, 327, 551, 557
Warren, William, 160
Washington, Augustine, 291
Washington, Fort, 394, 399–400, 402, 408, 409, 425
Washington, George, 103, 289–304
adulation of, 307, 370, 428–29, 438, 462, 469, 486, 497
and André, 506–9
appointment as commander and
departure for Cambridge, 268– 69, 289–91, 304, 306
and army discord, 557–59
and Arnold, 315, 318, 319, 477, 494, 500–502, 504–6, 509
awards of, 329
birth and early life of, 291ff.
at Brandywine, 440
and Breed’s Hill battle, 308
Brooklyn Heights evacuated by, 385–90
in Burgesses, 67, 304
at Cambridge, 307–12, 325, 326–327, 438
and Canada expedition, 315–16, 318, 319, 328, 342
Clinton, pursuit of, 476–79
as Congress delegate, 203, 213, 265
Congress is warned by about New York, 359
and Conway affair, 460–64
courtship and marriage of, 301–4
democratic beliefs of, 438
descriptions of, 292, 294
and deserters, 309, 401, 496, 539
Dorchester Heights fortified by, 327–28, 375
emergency powers given to, 423
and Sally Fairfax, 293–94, 298, 299, 301, 303, 327
farewells of, 561–63
and foreign volunteers, 468–71
and French alliance, 466–67, 469
and French fleet, 494–95, 499, 519, 521–22, 524, 525, 530–33, 537, 539, 544
in French and Indian War, 203, 208, 297–300, 302, 304, 331, 409, 413, 439
and Gates, 410, 438, 458–63 passim
at Germantown, 440–41
and Hamilton, 412, 507, 517–19
at Harlem Heights, 394–96, 399
and Hessian prisoners, 420–22, 424–25
indiscreet letters of, 518–20, 521, 523
Jefferson gets help from, 513
and Charles Lee, 304, 316, 331, 471–72, 479, 482–87, 556
and Long Island, 379–80, 382–85, 388–90
in militia, 294–98, 300–304
at Monmouth, 479–85
at Morristown, 496–98
New Jersey retreat of, 400–403, 412, 425
New York, defense and loss of (1776), 373–75, 393–96
New York, intentions and feints toward (1781), 519–20, 522–525
Ohio-country missions of, 295–98
and Paine, 341, 401–2, 556–57
and peace overtures, 375–77, 391, 393, 546
peacetime army proposed by, 560
Philadelphia, loss of, 440–41
Princeton victory of, 426–28, 524
retirement, yearning for, 560–62
and slaves, 304, 308
and spies, 307, 309–11, 373–74, 390, 398, 406–7, 472, 522
and Trenton, 407, 408–24, 425, 426, 524
at Valley Forge, 467–72, 477
at Virginia Revolutionary Convention, 208, 222
at White Marsh, 459, 460
and White Plains, 399, 486
Yorktown, his moves toward, 523–25, 530–31
Yorktown campaign of, 532–40
Washington, John Augustine, 290, 296, 300, 329
Washington, Lawrence, 292–94
Washington, Lund, 377, 397
Washington, Martha Dandridge Custis, 203, 301–4, 437, 544, 554
intercepted letter of, 520
with Washington during war, 327, 472, 477, 496–971, 561
Washington, Mary Ball, 291–92, 295, 299, 304, 429, 544
Waterhouse, Samuel, 73
Wayne, Anthony, 474–75, 477, 478, 483, 487, 496, 505
Wedderburn, Alexander, 186, 189, 466
Wemms, William, 160
Wendell, Oliver, 157, 158
West Florida, 549
West Indies, 14, 292, 294, 325, 476, 522, 524, 525, 544, 556
West Point, N.Y., 494, 500–502, 504–5
Whatley, Thomas, letters of, 171–173, 185–87, 193–94
Whatley, William, 185, 187
“Whippingpost Club,” 33
Whipple, Abraham, 167
White, Hugh, 133–36, 160
Whitefield George, 31
White Marsh, battle of, 459, 460
White Plains, N.Y., 399, 402, 403, 486, 494, 521
Wiederhold, Andreas, 414, 422
Wilkinson, James, 417, 424, 452–56, 460, 463
Willard, Abijah, 276
William, 175, 178
William, Prince, 533
William and Mary College, 41, 68, 347
Williams, David, 503
Williams, Roger, 255
Wilson, John, 130
Witherspoon, John, 359, 372
Wolfe, James, 316, 319, 406
Wythe, George, 43, 66, 69–70, 347
York, Pa., 440, 459, 460, 461, 478
Yorktown, Va., 520–25 passim, 526, 529–33, 534–44, 556
Young, Thomas, 128
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