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Band of Giants_The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence

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by Jack Kelly


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  Index

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  Page numbers in italics denote information in maps.

  71st Highlander Regiment, 197, 201–2

  Acland, John, 139

  Adams, Abigail, 23, 36, 60–1, 64, 202, 242

  Adams, John, 19, 23, 41, 60, 70, 219, 245

  on Battle of Long Island, 80

  Lafayette’s meeting with in 1824, 242

  on Lee, 36, 66

  and Treaty of Paris, 237

  on Washington, 72

  Adams, John Quincy, 244, 247

  Adams, Samuel, 17, 20, 24, 133

  Addison, Joseph, 147

  Alexander, Sarah Livingston, 66–7

  Alexander, William (Lord Stirling), 66–9, 74–8, 95, 126, 146, 154, 156, 239

  Allen, Ethan, 28–31, 38, 111–12

  Allen, Thomas “the Fighting Parson,” 119

  American Revolution, battles and campaigns

  Bemis Heights, Battle of, 117, 133, 135–41

  Bennington, Battle, of, 116, 117, 118, 172, 194

  Brandywine Creek, Battle of, 125–6, 128, 147, 163, 190, 207, 234, 239, 247

  Bunker (Breeds) Hill, Battle of, 33–5

  Camden, Battle of, 175–80

  Canada, Invasion of, 39–54

  Charleston, Siege of, 171–5, 180, 229

  Cowpens, Battle of, 197–202

  Dorchester Heights, fortification of, 59–64

  Eutaw Springs, Battle of, 212–13

  Fort Washington, Battle of, 96–8

  Germantown, Battle of, 128, 128–9, 142, 207, 234

  Guilford Courthouse, Battle of, 208, 210, 212, 216

  Hobkirk’s Hill, Battle of, 210–11

  Kings Mountain, Battle of, 192–4

  Lexington and Concord, Battles of, 23–4, 27

  Long Island, Battle of, 66–76, 76, 77–80

  Monmouth Courthouse, Battle of, 153–6, 165, 181, 234, 239, 241

  Paoli Massacre, 127–9, 166, 175

  Philadelphia campaign, 123–8, 128, 129–30

  Princeton, Battle of, 107–9

  Pyle’s Defeat, 208

  Quebec, Battle of, 48–54

  Race to the Dan, 205–8

  Saratoga, Battle of, 134–43

  Saratoga campaign, 115–16, 117, 118–21, 131–43

  Southern campaigns, 189–213

  Stony Point, Battle of, 165–7

  Sullivan campaign, 163–7, 168, 169–70

  Trenton, Battle of, 103–7

  Valcour Island, Battle of, 81–90

  Waxhaws Massacre, 175

  White Plains, Battle of, 95

  Yorktown campaign, 215–31

  Yorktown, Siege of, 223–4, 225, 225–31

  André, John, 184

  Arnold, Benedict, 73, 124, 152, 172, 215

  and Battle of Saratoga, 135–40, 142

  and Battle of Valcour Island, 81–90, 100, 111

  and capture of Fort Ticonderoga, 28–31

  death and later years, 246

  death of wife (Margaret), 31

  defection of, 182–6, 189, 215

  Gates and, 83–5, 132, 134–40

  and invasion of Canada, 42, 43, 43–51, 52

  marriage to Piggy Shippen, 182

  physical appearance, 29

  wounding of, 140, 146

  Articles of War, 6, 217

  Atlee, Samuel, 75

  Barras, Comte de, 220, 223

  battles. See American Revolution, battles and campaigns

  Baum, Friedrich, 118–20

  Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de, 149

  Bemis Heights, Battle of, 117, 133, 135–41

  Bennington, Battle, of, 116, 117, 118, 172, 194

  Bernard, Francis, 17

  Boston

  1775–1776, 32

  Battle of Bunker (Breeds) Hill, 33–5

  British generals arrive in, 32–3

  Boston Grenadier Corps, 21

  Boston Massacre, 15–19

  Boston Tea Party, 21

  Cambridge, 25, 27, 32, 32–3, 35, 41, 57–8

  fortification of Dorchester Heights, 59

  land filling in, 32

  as “Metropolis of Sedition,” 16

  Pope’s Day protests, 16–17

  and Townshend Acts, 17–19

  Braddock, Edward, 5–14, 36, 39, 44, 55, 66, 97, 115, 133

  Brandywine Creek, Battle of, 125–6, 128, 147, 163, 190, 207, 234, 239, 247

  Brant, Joseph, 162

  Breymann, Heinrich von, 119–20, 140–1

  Brodhead, Daniel, 164, 169

  Brooklyn Heights, 68–9, 76, 94, 173

  Buford, Abraham, 174–5, 193, 208

  Bunker (Breeds) Hill, Battle of, 33–5

  Burgoyne, John, 35, 59, 111–12

  and Battle of Bennington, 115–18, 120–1, 194, 228, 246

  and killing of Jenny McCrea, 112–13

  physical appearance, 142

  reputation of, 33

  and Saratoga campaign, 131–7, 139–42

  Burr, Aaron, 44, 245

  Butler, John, 162

  Butler, Walter, 162

  Cadwalader, John, 107

  Camden, Battle of, 175–80

  campaigns. See American Revolution, battles and campaigns

  Campbell, William, 190–2, 217

  Canada, Invasion of, 39–54

  Carleton, Guy, 41, 47–51, 81, 85–90, 235

  Charleston, Siege of, 171–5, 180, 229

  Chew, Benjamin, 129

  Cilley, Joseph, 139

  Clark, George Rogers, 157–61, 246

  Clement, William, 120

  Cleveland, Benjamin, 190

  Clinton, Henry, 35, 66, 72, 80, 100, 112–13, 137, 141, 162, 205, 234–5

  and Arnold, 184

  on Battle of Cowpens, 202

  on Battle of Kings Mountain, 194

  and Battle of Monmouth Courthouse, 153, 155

  knighthood awarded to, 112

  and march from Philadelphia to New York, 151–3

  physical appearance, 33

  and Siege of Charleston, 170–4

 
and Sullivan campaign, 164–5, 167, 168

  and Yorktown campaign, 215, 217, 219–21, 228–9

  Continental Army

  creation of, 35

  desertions and mutiny, 95, 116, 182, 185–7, 207, 215–17, 226, 235–6

  Morgan’s riflemen, 39–42, 44–5, 48, 50–2, 133, 136–7, 141

  pay and pensions for, 235–7

  Pennsylvania Line, 185, 215

  size after Yorktown, 238

  Virginia Regiment, 12

  Washington appointed commander-in-chief of, 35

  Conway, Thomas, 148

  Cornwallis, Charles, 66, 125, 176, 245

  and Battle of Camden, 178, 189

  and Battle of Guilford Court House, 208, 210, 212, 216

  and Battle of Long Island, 72, 77–8, 80

  and Battle of Monmouth Courthouse, 153

  and Fort Lee, 98–9

  and New Jersey campaign, 107–10

  and Pyle’s Defeat, 208

  and Race to the Dan, 205–7

  and Southern campaigns, 189–97, 202

  and Yorktown campaign, 216–220, 222–4, 225, 228–9, 234, 242

  Coulon de Villiers, Joseph (Jumonville), 3

  Coulon de Villiers, Louis, 5, 12

  Cowpens, Battle of, 197–202

  Curry (Morgan), Abigail, 40

  Custis (Washington), Martha Dandridge, 13, 59, 69, 146, 151, 219, 231, 242

  Davis, Samuel, 14

  Deane, Silas, 147

  Dearborn, Henry, 34, 42–3, 133, 136, 139–40, 165

  Declaration of Independence, 70–1, 245

  Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 243

  DePeyster, Abraham, 192–3

  desertions and mutiny, 95, 116, 182, 185–7, 207, 215–17, 226, 235–6

  Dinwiddie, Robert, 4, 12

  Dorchester Heights, fortification of, 59–64

  Dudingston, William, 20

  Dunbar, Thomas, 9, 11–12

  Eastman, Amos, 114

  Enos, Roger, 43, 45

  d’Estaing, Charles, 163–4, 172

  Eutaw Springs, Battle of, 212–13

  Ferguson, Patrick, 190–4

  First Continental Congress, 23

  First Delaware Regiment, 75

  Fischer, David Hackett, 105

  Flucker, Hannah, 63

 

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