by Logan Beirne
United States Military Academy at West Point
United States Supreme Court
Valley Forge
Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de
Vermont
Virginia: Fairfax family in; and Jefferson; and Lee; and Mary Washington; and Washington; Yorktown
Virginia General Assembly
Vulture, HMS
Wall Street
Washington, Augustine
Washington, George: admiration for; aloofness of; anger of; and Arnold’s corruption trial; on burning Manhattan; and Cincinnatus; on civil authority ; and Commander in Chief clause; commission as commander; on Constitution; at Constitutional Convention; on cruelty; on deserters; as “Devourer of Villages,” 2, 229, 231; “dictator” powers of; on dueling; empathy with troops; eyeglasses of; false teeth of; Federal Hall statue of; Gates’s rivalry with; as invulnerable; in Jumonville Affair; Lee’s rivalry with; letters to Congress; and local authorities; Loyalist friends of; Loyalist plot against; on Loyalist rights; loyalty oath proposal; and military plot; on monarchy; on national weakness; on Native Americans; on peace negotiations; physical attributes of; on plunder & theft; portrait of; presidential election of; on prisoner treatment; on public debt; on religion & morals; resigning of commission; on retaliation; in retirement; and Seven Years’ War; and slaves; on smallpox inoculation; and Smith interrogation; speech awkwardness of; spending power; supplying of army; on taxes; theatricality of; thrift of; troops’ loyalty to; on troops’ pay; and war council; West Point statue of; at Yorktown
Washington, Martha
Washington, Mary Bell
West, Benjamin
West Point, N.Y.; Arnold at; Great Chain at; reinforcement of; U.S. Military Academy at
Williamson, Hugh
women in battle; “Molly Pitcher,”; Native American
Woodward, Thomas Lewis
Yorktown
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Title Page: The Battle of Princeton. Photograph of painting by John Trumbull. Springfield, Mass.: Taber-Prang Art Co., c1900. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-469. Part I: Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States. Painting by Howard Chandler Christy, 1940. Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives. Part II: The Battle of Bunker Hill. Copy of engraving by James Mitan after John Trumbull, 1808. National Archives, 148-GW-454 (George Washington Bicentennial Commission). Part III: Province of New York, 1767. Created by Bernard Ratzer. London: Jefferys & Faden, 1776. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, G3804.N4 1767 .R3. Part IV: Last Moments of Major André. Copy of engraving by F. F. Walker after M. A. Wageman. New York: Virtue & Co. Publishers, 1861. Courtesy of the Author. Part V: The Victory Ball, 1781. Painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme Ferris, c1929. Courtesy of Virginia Historical Society. Part VI: Triumph of Patriotism, 1783. Copy of engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie after Felix Octavius Carr Darley, 1853. National Archives, ARC ID 532881. Epilogue: The Prayer at Valley Forge. Copy of engraving by John C. McRae after Henry Brueckner. New York: John C. McRae, c1866. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-03965. Insert, first image: George Washington, 1796. Gilbert Stuart, American 1755–1828. Oil on Canvas, 121.28 x 93.98 cm (47¾ x 37 in.), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. William Francis Warden Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Commonwealth Cultural, and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., 1980.1
