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by Thomas J McGuire


  Concord and Concord Road, 263, 274–75

  Continental Army, 10

  arguments between military officers, 78–79

  locations for, in August of 1777, 117–18

  native-born Americans versus foreigners in, 79–80

  parade, 131

  spacing of divisions, 130

  Continental Powder Mill, 296, 321

  Conway's Pennsylvania Brigade, 170

  Conway, Thomas, 221–22

  Cooch's Bridge, 154–55, 157

  Cooper, Apollos, 215

  Cope, Thomas “Tommy”, 2, 3, 264

  Cornwallis, Charles Earl, 9–10, 21–22, 23, 31, 53, 133, 279

  Boot Tavern, 288

  Brandywine, battle of, 183, 194, 199, 203

  Lancaster Road, 286

  plundering, 280

  Valley Forge, 303

  Coudray. See Du Coudray, Chevalier

  Cox, James, 113, 307

  Cresswell, Nicholas, 7, 25–26, 32–33, 46, 49, 50, 61–62, 67, 81, 84

  Cunningham, Allen, 172

  Currency, 128

  Currie, William, 295–96

  Dallas, Archibald, 155

  Dansey, William, 18–19, 72–73, 109, 145–46, 161, 235

  Dayton, Elias, 236

  Dead, excessive brutality and mutilation of, 29–31

  Paoli Massacre, 163, 313–18

  De Borre Brigade, 171, 217

  De Borre, Chevalier Preudhomme, 220, 222, 223–24, 284

  DeHaven, Peter, 321

  Delaware, militia from, 123

  Delaware, 127

  Desertions, 17, 36, 146, 301

  Detchevery, Bertrand, 70, 71

  Dewes, William, 296–97

  Dilworth, 198, 252–53, 255, 274, 285

  Discipline of troops, 26, 118–19, 136

  Diseases, 25, 72

  battle wounds, 265–66

  Döhla, Johann Conrad, 72

  Donnaldson, John, 155, 298

  Douglas, Thomas, 246

  Downingtown, 291

  Downman, Francis, 137–38, 140, 141, 151, 162, 178, 241, 242, 323

  Doyle, John, 311

  Drinker, Elizabeth, 67–68, 89, 272, 327

  Drinker, Henry, 272

  Dubuysson, Chevalier, 97, 234, 282

  Du Coudray, Chevalier, 282

  Dunlap, James, 144

  Boot Tavern, 288, 289

  Du Portail, Luis Le Bègue de Presle, 281, 282

  Durkee, Col., 10

  Dyer, Eliphalet, 274

  East Bradford Township, 3

  Economic conditions, 128–29

  Edgemont Road, 286

  Egg Harbor, 86–89

  Elk Ferry, 133–34

  Elk Landing, 139–41

  Elmer, Ebenezer, 213, 233, 255

  Erskine, William, 261, 321

  Evans, Evan, 294

  Ewald, Johann, 8, 9

  Amboy, 59–60

  background of, 20–21

  Battle of the Clouds, 290–91

  Boundbrook, 22–23

  Brandywine, battle of, 183, 184, 193–94, 195, 200–3, 206, 257, 258–59

  Continental Powder Mill, 321

  Elk Landing and surroundings, 133–34, 137, 139, 140

  Iron Hill, 152

  local Germans, 326–27

  New Garden Township, 167

  Lady Patterson, 161

  Treatise on Partisan Warfare, 44

  White Clay Creek, 160

  Ewing, George, 825

  Fabius (Quintus Fabius Maximus), 7

  Fatland Ford, 304–5, 322

  Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 234

  Ferguson, Patrick, 37, 173, 175, 176, 177–78, 179–80, 248

  Finch, John, 54–56, 61

  Fisher, Henry, 93, 99

  Fisher, Sarah Logan, 46, 65, 68, 94, 99, 100, 101, 104, 117, 123, 272

  Fisher, Thomas, 100–1, 272

  Fithian, Philip Vickers, 86–87

  Fitzpatrick, Richard, 34–35, 58, 60, 61, 68–69, 76, 97, 134, 147, 269, 271, 294

  Flags

  display of Union, 111–12, 161

  1st Pennsylvania regimental, 249

  Forage War, 17–19, 21–22, 24–25

  Forks of the Brandywine, 171, 193

  Forman, David, 70–71, 83–84

  Forrest, Thomas, 6

  Fort Ticonderoga, 82–83

  Fourth of July, Philadelphia's first, 63–68

  Fox, Charles James, 32, 34

  Franklin, Benjamin, 9

  Fraser's Highlanders, 173

  Frazer, Mary “Polly” Worrall, 1–2, 267, 268, 276–77

  Frazer, Persifor “Percy,” 2–3, 42, 44, 48–49, 51–52, 61, 77–78, 83, 95, 119, 121, 123, 128–29, 267–68, 276

  Brandywine, battle of, 248

  capture of, 286–87

  Frazer, Sarah “Sally,” 1, 2, 267, 268

  Galloway, Joseph, 73, 132, 184, 270, 301, 327

  Gates, Horatio, 119–20

  George III, 12, 13

  Georgia Battalion, 4th, 118–19

  Germain, George, 5–6, 32, 56

  Germantown, 100, 103, 123, 124, 274

  Gerry, Elbridge, 230

  Gibbon, Edward, 7–8

  Gibbons, James, 280–81

  Gibbons, Jane Sheward, 280

  Gibbons, William, 280

  Gibson's Ford, 171

  Gist, Mordecai, 217, 300

  Glyn, Thomas, 27

  Goshen Friends Meeting House, 286, 287, 288

  Grant, James, 6, 13, 22, 34, 70, 319

  Brandywine, battle of, 209, 240–41, 261

  Concord, 274–75

  death of horse, 27–28

  East New Jersey, 45

  Elk Landing, 140

  Frazer, capture of, 287

  Howe's seamanship, comments on, 114

  on the Isis, 105, 115, 134

  petite guerre, 31

  position of troops, 173

  Washington, comments on, 56–57, 60, 159

  Washington, pursuit of, 290

  weather conditions, 74–75, 115, 290

  Graydon, Alexander, 8, 20, 21, 129–30, 131

  Gray's Hill, 143, 145

  Great Valley Road, 186–87, 295–96

  Greene, Nathanael, 8, 16, 23–24, 79–80, 172

  Brandywine, battle of, 243, 254, 255

  position of troops, 170, 191

  Grey, Charles, 37, 296, 308

  Grier, David, 63, 67

  Guards Light Infantry Company, 37

  Hale, William, 13–14, 27, 85, 106, 135, 145, 200, 208, 212

  Hall, Aquila, 115

  Hall, David, 93, 171, 196

  Hamilton, Alexander, 30, 31, 57, 58, 297, 298

  Hamond, Andrew Snape, 95, 96, 105

  Hancock, John, 64, 94, 98, 104, 282, 298–99

  Hannum, John, 187, 188

  Harcourt, William, 54

  Harper, John, 286

  Harris, David, 49

  Harris, George, 231

  Harrison, Benjamin, 121

  Hartley, Thomas, 248, 249, 293–94, 302, 307, 308, 309, 313, 314, 315–16

  Hawkins, John, 224, 243–44, 283

  Hay, Samuel, 59, 313

  Hazen, Moses, 171, 185, 196, 203, 220, 224–25

  Head of Elk, 139, 140, 143, 145–46, 151

  Hector, Edward “Ned,” 247

  Henry, John, 133

  Hessians, 6–7, 12, 13–14, 24, 25

  landing of, 133–34

  plundering by, 137, 139

  reinforcements, 33, 68

  Heth, T. Will (William), 156–57, 173, 175, 176, 215, 217–18

  Hicks, Robert, 294

  Hiltzheimer, Jacob, 282

  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 7

  Holland, Samuel, 140

  Hollingsworth, Jesse, 139, 146

  Hopewell Furnace, 296

  Horses, British, 70, 105, 108, 109, 110–11, 135–36

  House, Amos, 189–90

  Howe, Lord, 9, 7
3, 96, 114, 115, 133

  Howe, William, 5, 32, 133

  Boot Tavern, 292

  Brandywine, battle of, 183, 193, 200, 239–40

  Brandywine, position after, 281

  Burgoyne and, 82

  Continental Army whereabouts and, 95–96

  Cresswell's view of, 62

  declaration to inhabitants, 137

  Guard officers returning home, 33–34

  plundering by troops, 146

  praise of light troops, 155–56

  reconnoitering of Americans, 143

  return to New Brunswick, 44–45

  seamanship skills, 114–15

  Tredyffrin, 296

  Washington, pursuit of, 279, 287

  Howell, David, 296

  Howell, Lewis, 229, 235–36

  Hubley, Adam, 244, 249–50, 251, 252, 314, 315, 317

  Humpton, Richard, 248, 307, 312

  Hunn, John, 85–86, 87, 90, 92, 98

  Hunter, Martin, 14–15, 54, 172, 210, 211, 212, 216, 238, 260, 307, 310, 311, 313, 315, 318

  Huntington, Jedediah, 81–82, 83

  Hutchinson, James, 273, 274

  Hutchinson, William, 150, 158–59, 172

  Hyde, West, 276

  Indian massacres, 120, 121

  Inman, George, 260

  Iron Hill, 143, 144, 145, 149, 152–54, 157–58

  Isis, 115–16

  Jackson, John, 184

  Jäger Corps. See Hessians

  James, Jacob, 287, 301

  Jarvis, Stephen, 175, 244–45, 248

  Jefferis, Emmor, 194–95, 239, 266

  Jefferis's Ford, 193

  Johnson, James, 203, 206

  Johnson, Matthew, 209

  Johnston, Francis, 248

  Jones, David, 296

  Jones, Samuel, 201, 206, 296

  Jones's Ford, 171, 196

  Kemble, Stephen, 14, 43, 46, 62, 69

  Kennett Square, 167–68, 172, 173

  Kirkwood, Robert, 36, 288

  Knox, Henry, 39, 41, 44, 80, 252, 253, 293

  Knox, William, 5

  Lacey Brigade, 171

  Lafayette, Marquis de, 35, 97–98, 103, 120, 142, 150, 156, 189, 282

  Brandywine, battle of, 222–23, 232, 234–35

  Lamar, Marion, 316

  Lancaster, 3, 123–24, 132

  Lancaster Road, 281, 283, 285–86

  Laurens, Henry, 99, 103, 156, 299

  Lee, Henry “Light-Horse Harry,” 173, 175, 201, 215, 231, 297

  Lee, Philip, 215

  Lee, Richard Henry, 25, 109, 120–21, 128

  Levering's Ford, 281, 282–83

  Lewis, Curtis, 184

  Lincoln, Benjamin, 20, 21–22, 248

  Livingston, William, 16

  Long Island, battle of, 53

  Lorey (Loray), Friedrich Heinrich, 26–27, 29

  Lorey, Richard, 289, 321

  Loring, Elizabeth, 32, 76

  Lovell, James, 99–100, 301

  Maclean, Allen, 233

  Maitland, John, 205

  Marchant, Henry, 230

  Marcus Hook, 144

  Marshall, Christopher, 132–33, 166

  Marshall, Humphry, 165–66, 185

  Marshall, John, 181, 243

  Marshall, Thomas, 201, 215

  Martin, Joseph, 187

  Martin's Tavern, 186–87

  Martin, William, 29–31

  Maryland militia, 78, 122, 142–43

  Mason-Dixon line, 163–65, 167

  Mathew, Edward, 33, 205

  Maxwell, William, 18, 144

  Boot Tavern, 288

  at Christiana Bridge, 152, 154, 156–57, 159

  at Iron Hill, 152, 154

  position of troops, 170, 171, 178, 191

  McClellan, Joseph, 228, 256

  McCrea, Jane, 120

  McGinnis, John, 88, 89

  McGowan, John, 317–18

  McKinly, John, 162–63, 278

  McLeroth, Robert, 259

  McMichael, James, 100, 102–3, 143, 160, 257–58, 285

  McPherson, James, 183

  Meade, Richard Kidder, 253

  Medows, William, 205, 231, 241

  Mendenhall, Phebe, 263–64, 265–66, 275

  Mercer, Francis, 215

  Mercer, Hugh, 30

  Middlebush, 37–41

  Middle States, sectionalism, 80–81

  Mifflin, Thomas, 85, 88–89

  Miles, Samuel, 68

  Millstone River, 39–40

  Milltown, 291

  Monckton, Henry, 205

  Moncrieff Bridge, 46–49

  Moncrieff, James, 46, 246

  Montrésor, John, 58, 61, 152, 295, 304, 318, 322, 323

  on the Alert, 87, 90, 92–93, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110–11

  Brandywine, battle of, 199, 216, 230–31, 257, 259–60

  Chesapeake area, 110, 114, 115

  earthen forts, construction of, 40

  Finch's death, 56

  Kennett Square, 168

  Lancaster Road, 285–86

  landing and camp, description of, 135–36

  plundering by troops, 146, 148

  Moore Hall, 318

  Moore, James, 24

  Moore, William, 164, 318

  Morgan, Daniel, 37–38, 49, 120

  Morris, Robert, 19

  Morristown, 77

  Moylan, Stephen, 20

  Muhlenberg, Henry, 66–67, 68, 82, 89, 94, 108, 121, 170, 272, 305–6, 323, 325

  Muhlenberg, Peter, 272

  Müller, Matthaeus, 24

  Murdon, Robert, 178

  Murray, James, 18, 134, 147–48

  Musgrave, Thomas, 182–83, 308

  Nagle, Jacob, 170, 179, 182, 242, 245, 246, 247, 265, 291, 292

  Narin, Henry, 259

  Nash, Francis, 170, 255, 256

  Newark, 159

  New Brunswick, 8–10

  British evacuation and destruction of, 46–52

  British return to, 44–46

  New England, sectionalism, 80

  New Garden Township, 167

  Newport, 160

  New York Gazette, 5

  Nicholas House, 160, 162

  Nicola, Lewis, 67

  Norrington, 323–24

  O'Hara, Charles, 33

  Osborn, Danvers, 13

  Osborn, George, 6, 21, 25, 29, 54, 318, 322

  Annapolis, 111

  Aolus, 71, 96, 104–7

  background of, 12–13

  Brandywine, battle of, 205, 225

  Chesapeake area, 109

  Christiana Creek, 157

  Fitzpatrick and, 35, 69

  plundering by troops, 294

  Staten Island, 68

  Osborne's Hill, 196, 198, 203–7

  Osborn family, 12–13

  Paine, Thomas, 271–72

  Painter farm, 265

  Palfrey, William, 51

  Paoli, battle of (Paoli Massacre), 163, 313–18

  Paoli, Pasquale, 285

  Paoli Tavern, 285

  Parker, James, 109, 291, 301, 322–23, 326

  attack on Wayne, 307–8, 313, 314, 317, 318

  background of, 73–74

  Boot Tavern, 288, 289, 292

  Brandywine, battle of, 176, 178, 190, 229, 242, 245, 247

  destruction of Frazer house, 277

  Elk Ferry landing, 133, 134

  Frazer, capture of, 287

  Howe's seamanship skills, 114

  Kennett Square, 167–68

  Newark, 159

  prisoners, list by nationality, 279

  Parker, Richard, 173

  Parker's Ford, 305

  Patten, Abraham, 35–36

  Patten, James, 144, 251, 289–90

  Patterson, Lady, 161

  Patterson, Samuel, 161

  Peale, Charles Willson, 51

  Peebles, John, 18, 36, 47, 134, 147, 154, 157, 257, 260, 268, 280, 286, 292, 303, 322

  Pemberton, Israel, 272

  Pemberton, James, 272r />
  Pencader (Penn-Cadder), 151, 152

  Penn, John, 94, 125, 126, 132

  Pennsylvania Gazette, The, 59

  Pennsylvania militia, 122–23

  Perkiomen Creek, 306

  Perth Amboy, 35–36, 46

  Peters, Richard, 165

  Peterson, Gabriel, 250

  Petit guerre, 17–19, 21–22, 24–25

  Peyton, George, 215

  Peyton, John, 215

  Peyton, Robert, 215

  Philadelphia

  British, approach to, 298–327

  description of, 125–27

  lack of protection for, 124

  Washington's army in, 124–25

  Philadelphia Artillery, 11

  Philadelphia Associators, 11

  Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse, 11

  Pickering, Timothy, 43, 44, 56, 59, 77, 103, 149

  Brandywine, battle of, 171, 190–91, 243, 253, 258, 260

  Levering's Ford, 282–83

  South Valley Hill, 290

  Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 256

  Pine Barrens, 86–87

  Platoon firing, 229–30

  Plundering

  by Americans, 16, 118–19, 148–49, 158, 306, 325

  by British, 12–15, 41, 44, 58–60, 136–37, 139, 146–47, 186, 276–77, 280–81, 294–95, 323, 324–25

  Pompton Plains, 77

  Porterfield, Charles, 173, 175, 176, 181

  Potter, James, 291

  Potter Brigade, 171, 303

  Potts, David, 296

  Princeton, battle of, 6

  Prisoners

  American (rebel), 279

  British, 43–44, 87–88, 146, 147

  Proctor, Thomas, 170

  Pulaski, Casimir, 180–81, 252, 254–55

  Purdy, Gilbert, 84–85, 140, 154, 269

  Pyle's Ford, 171

  Quakers, 67–68, 124, 125, 126, 165, 172, 266–67, 272–73

  Quan, Mary, 36

  Quartering officers, 15

  Rahway, 59

  Rall, Johann, 6

  Randel Malins, 295

  Randolph, Edward Fitz, 311

  Rawdon, John, 245, 246

  Reading, 124, 320–21

  Reading Furnace, 300, 305

  Rebel Battery on the Heights of Brandywine, A, 4

  Red Clay Creek, 157–59, 160

  Red Lion tavern, 317

  Reed, Joseph, 10, 292–93, 298, 323–24

  Rittenhouse, David, 296, 321

  Robertson, Archibald, 37, 59, 109, 304–5

  Brandywine, battle of, 195, 198, 225, 230, 233, 236, 245, 250–51, 253–54, 259

  Rodney, Caesar, 93–94

  Roebuck, 87, 88, 95, 99

  Ross, James, 188, 264

  Rüffer, Carl, 159

  Rumsey, Benjamin, 113

  Rush, Benjamin, 42–43, 126–27, 270, 271

  St. Clair, Arthur, 82

  St. George, Richard, 216, 311, 314, 316

  Sandy Hollow, 198, 214

  Sanitation problems, 101–2, 158

  Schuyler, General, 119–20

  Schuylkill, 273–74

 

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