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George Washington

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by Stephen Brumwell


  Louis XVI, King of France 314, 339, 425

  Louisbourg 112, 113, 122, 134, 157, 163, 276

  Louisiana 18, 35, 65, 170

  Lovell, James 332, 336

  Loyalhanna Creek 139–140, 142, 143, 145, 146, 147, 148, 161, 165

  Loyalists 213, 255, 272, 277, 296, 303, 304, 340, 356, 364, 378, 379

  Luzerne, Anne-César, Chevalier de la 384, 386

  McConkey’s Ferry 276, 277, 278, 280, 282

  McDougall, General Alexander 413

  McIntosh, William 298

  Mackay, Captain James 57, 58, 61, 62, 63

  Mackenzie, Lieutenant Frederick 262

  McKenzie, Malcolm 408

  Mackenzie, Captain Robert 187

  MacMahon, Isabella 252

  MacMahon, Private Thomas 252

  McNeil, Daniel 165–66

  Magaw, Colonel Robert 258, 260, 261, 262

  Mahicans 167, 352

  Maidenhead 288, 293, 294

  Maine 212, 215, 217

  Manchester Regiment 183

  Manhattan 228, 233, 237, 238, 238–41, 244, 246, 255, 256, 272, 300, 344, 347, 362, 382, 385, 386, 393, 411

  Manley, Captain/Commodore John 215, 285

  Marblehead Regiment 206, 285

  Marie-Antoinette, Queen 426

  Marin, Pierre de La Malgue, sieur de 36, 39

  Marjoribanks, Major John 400

  Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of 56, 121, 165, 198, 219, 305

  Marston Moor, Battle of 14

  Martha’s Vineyard 347

  Martin, Private Joseph Plumb 323, 326, 342, 358, 398, 401, 410, 418, 419, 428

  Martinique 164, 168, 169, 183

  Maryland 15, 20, 38, 52, 65, 302, 389

  frontiers 83, 125

  indentured servants 22

  militia 16

  speculators from 174

  troops from 70, 85, 86, 88, 93, 99, 100, 106, 108, 123, 148, 193, 232, 239, 248, 267, 270, 291, 318, 380

  Massachusetts 89, 91, 99, 218

  Assembly 181

  troops from 102, 191

  Massachusetts Artillery 290

  Massachusetts Bay colony 164, 187

  Maumee River 422

  Mawhood, Lieutenant Colonel Charles 291, 293, 298

  Medows, Brigadier General William 349, 409

  Meigs, Colonel Return Jonathan 358–59

  mercenaries 229, 252

  Mercer, Anne see Patton, Anne

  Mercer, Captain/Lieutenant Colonel George 38, 50, 92, 110, 120–21, 137, 147, 161

  Mercer, Colonel/Brigadier General Hugh 152–53, 183, 262, 276, 289

  Mercer, Captain John Fenton 96

  Metuchen 301

  Miamis 171, 422

  Middlebrook 300, 301, 348

  Mifflin, Brigadier General Thomas 287, 324, 331, 332

  Minden, Battle of 315, 377

  Mingos 36, 40–41, 58, 59, 73, 115, 161, 171, 422

  minutemen 198, 211, 216, 217, 421

  missionaries 135, 412

  Mississippi Company 174–75

  Mississippi River/Valley 43, 170, 348

  Mohawk Valley 354

  Mohawks 43, 167, 168, 351, 354, 406

  Moldavia 184

  Monacatoocha 41, 53–54, 73, 76, 88

  Monckton, Major General Robert 183–84

  Monmouth Court House, Battle of 342–45

  Monongahela River, Battle of 36, 38–39, 77–82, 83, 88, 91, 103, 136, 163, 199, 235, 294

  Monroe, Lieutenant James (later president) 281, 428

  Montcalm, Louis Joseph, Marquis de 102, 112

  Monteur, Andrew 88

  Montgomery, Colonel Archibald 149, 150, 166–67

  Montgomery, Brigadier General Richard 199, 217, 221, 222

  Montgomery’s Highlanders 123, 139–40, 141, 171, 172, 261–262

  Montreal 123, 217, 229

  Montresor Island 244

  Morgan, Captain Daniel 77, 212, 308, 339, 378, 379, 423

  Morris, Robert 273, 394

  Morris, Captain Roger 69

  Morristown 267, 295–96, 297, 298–99, 302, 324, 356, 371, 372, 378, 399

  Molder, Captain Joseph 292

  Mount Holly 275, 278

  Mount Vernon 21, 26, 28, 31, 32, 34, 67, 84, 117, 120, 137–38, 154, 160, 165, 173, 178, 185, 217, 270, 319, 326, 337, 394, 419–20, 426, 427, 429, 430

  Murdering Town 45

  Muse, George, Major/Lieutenant Colonel 35, 60, 63, 177–78

  Musgrove, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas 310, 312

  Muskingum River 172

  mutiny 205, 252, 358–59, 372–74, 413, 417–418

  Nancy (British ordnance ship) 215

  Napoleonic Wars 426

  Narrangansett Bay 346

  Naseby, Battle of 14

  New Army 427, 428

  New Bedford 347

  New Camp 150

  New England 84, 191, 272, 303, 350, 353

  militia 196, 197–98, 359

  troops in Continental Army 200, 215–16, 238–39, 257, 269, 285, 294, 374

  New France 18, 112, 122–23, 157, 160, 171

  Indian network in Ohio 135–36

  militarized society 59

  ramifications of rebuilding 348

  ultimate victory over 113

  see also France

  New Hampshire

  militia 303–4

  troops from 201, 216, 218

  New Haven 350

  New Jersey 196, 208, 255, 257, 259, 263, 264, 265, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 282, 284, 286, 295, 297, 301, 302–3, 307, 316, 318, 320, 340, 341, 347, 350, 356, 371, 390, 391

  militia 274, 275, 287, 379

  troops from 373, 394, 397

  New Jersey College 274

  New London 92, 395

  New Model Army 14

  New Orleans 348

  New Windsor 372

  New York 66, 84, 92, 93, 171, 184, 418–19, 420

  British army withdraws toward 339, 340

  as British operational base 212, 214

  Clinton sails south from 356

  Clinton’s return to 345

  frontier 102, 112, 134, 161, 168, 355

  munitions in 215

  Provincial Congress 196, 229–30

  Revolutionary War 192, 195–96, 207–8, 225–49, 254, 255, 257, 261, 269, 272, 295, 300, 301, 382–83, 387, 393–94

  troops 69, 77, 183, 192, 393–94, 403

  Washington in (1775) 196

  Washington enters (1783) 419–20

  New York Independent Company 69, 77, 183

  Newark 263

  Newburgh 412–13, 414, 416–17, 418

  Newburgh Addresses 414–15

  Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of 113

  Newport 92, 272, 346, 347, 356, 360, 375, 376, 377, 381, 390, 395

  Niagara 65, 161, 162, 171, 354

  Nicola, Colonel Lewis 417

  nonimportation pacts 180, 181, 186–87

  Nooks Hill 224

  Norfolk 375

  North, Lord 212, 213, 233

  North Carolina 31, 66, 69–70, 90, 103, 213, 230, 349, 361, 374, 378–79, 390

  troops from 85, 123, 148, 361, 379, 399

  North Castle 256, 257

  North River 228, 363

  Northern Neck 28, 32, 34, 35, 175, 382

  Norwalk 350

  Nottoways 136

  Nova Scotia 18, 66, 84, 112, 225, 228

  O’Hara, Lieutenant Augustus 406

  O’Hara, Brigadier General Charles 406–7

  Ohio Company 37, 38–39, 47, 51, 68

  Ohio Indians 135–136, 148, 162, 171, 176, 202, 262

  Ohio River/Valley 35–36, 39–47, 58, 64, 73, 102, 109, 123, 130, 141, 142, 152, 157, 161, 175–76, 276, 412, 422

  Old Point Comfort 388

  “Olive Branch Petition” 192, 213

  Oneida Indians 41, 53–54

  Ontario, Lake 65, 102, 148

  Orme, Captain Robert 67–68, 69, 76, 80

  Osborn, Sarah 403, 407

  O
swego 102

  Ottawas 46, 171, 422, 424

  Ottoman Turks 184

  Oudenarde, Battle of 56

  Paine, Thomas 270, 296

  Pamunkey River 71

  Paoli, Battle of 307, 309, 350

  Paris, Peace of (1763) 169

  Paris, Peace of (1783) 418

  Parke II, Colonel Daniel 121–22

  Parke, Sarah 121

  Parkman, Francis 56

  Passaic River 263

  Paterson, John 318

  Patterson, Lieutenant Colonel James 235

  Patterson Creek 89, 90–91

  Patton, Anne (née Mercer) 183

  Patton, General George 183

  Patton, Robert 183

  Paulding, John 364

  Paulus Hook 272, 351, 398

  Peace Commission (proposed) 213–14

  Peachey, Captain William 116

  Peale, Charles Willson 5–7, 178–79, 267, 297

  Peale, Rembrandt 7

  Pearis, Richard 69

  Peebles, John, Lieutenant/Captain 261, 298, 311, 336, 339, 349, 359, 406

  Peekskill 10, 259, 265, 302, 313

  Pell’s Point 255

  Pemberton, Israel 135, 148

  Peninsular War 349

  Pennington, Captain Isaac 30

  Pennington Road 280–81

  Pennsylvania 30–31, 52, 74, 127, 266, 269

  frontier of 3, 83, 101–2, 113, 161, 171

  militia 273–74, 277, 290, 305, 422

  Revolutionary War 271, 272, 273, 287, 297–312, 316–21, 328, 388

  rivalry with Virginia 131, 133

  troops from 86, 90, 93, 99, 106, 109, 123, 143, 149, 150, 152, 153, 193, 204, 205, 239, 258, 267, 269, 291, 307, 359, 371–72, 387–88, 394

  Whiskey Rebellion 425

  Pennsylvania Gazette 96, 108, 147

  Pennsylvania Regiment 144, 150, 152, 153

  pensions 335, 380, 428

  Percy, General Hugh, Lord 197, 354, 406

  Perth Amboy 264, 297, 301

  Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia 319

  Philadelphia 1, 2, 42, 92, 159, 162, 184, 188, 211, 229, 241, 244, 257, 266, 268, 270, 271, 273, 275, 289, 388

  British evacuation of 339–40, 348

  campaign 296–312, 316–21

  Congress leaves 268, 271

  Congress returns to 307, 372

  First Continental Congress 186–87

  Forbes’s headquarters at 125, 126, 127

  Howe captures and occupies 307, 308, 312, 318, 320–21

  Howe’s force sails to 301–3

  Pennsylvanian mutineers march on 372

  Second Continental Congress 191, 192

  troops from 264, 277, 284, 290, 292, 293

  Washington in 303, 391

  Philadelphia Associators 267, 277, 292, 293

  Philipse, Mary Eliza 93

  Philips’s Manor, New York 352

  Phillips, Major General William 377, 386

  Pilgrim Fathers 14

  Pinckney, Major General Charles Cotesworth 427

  Piscataway 299, 300

  Pitt, William 112, 113, 122, 123, 124, 130, 135, 157, 180

  Pittsburgh 161, 176

  Plains of Abraham (Quebec), Battle of 163, 169, 198, 220, 398

  plunderers 251, 252, 273, 301, 357

  Point Lévis 217

  Poland 184

  Polson, William 79

  Poltava, Battle of 319

  Pompton 373

  Pontiac, Chief 171, 177

  Pontiac’s War 170–73, 177

  Pope, Anne 15

  Popes Creek 17, 18

  Porto Bello 22

  Portsmouth 375, 383, 387, 388

  Portugal 349

  Post, Christian Frederick 135, 148

  Post Road 287, 290

  Potomac River 28, 30, 38, 68, 91, 100, 103, 394

  Powhatan Indians 14, 15

  Presque Isle 36, 39, 43, 161, 171

  Prevost, Brigadier General Augustine 349, 355

  Prince William County 98

  HMS Princess Carolina 23

  Princeton 265, 272, 277, 282, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 390

  Battle of 10, 290–94, 295, 296, 316, 343, 411

  prisoners of war 235, 261, 406

  privateers 215, 269, 285, 426

  Proclamation Line 176

  Putnam, Major General Israel 199, 201, 223, 238, 247, 248, 259, 260, 303

  Putnam, Lieutenant Colonel Rufus 223, 224

  Quaker Bridge Road 287, 290

  Quebec 112, 123, 162–63, 165, 169, 195–96, 212, 217, 220, 221, 222, 253, 262, 276, 398

  Queen’s Rangers 387, 405

  Quibbletown 301

  Rall, Colonel Johann 273, 274, 275, 280, 281–82, 287, 296, 308

  Ramsay, William 101

  Randolph, Peyton 187

  rangers 113–14, 168, 169, 197, 199, 276, 351, 354

  Rappahannock River 21, 28, 155

  Raritan River 264, 265, 272, 294, 300, 340

  Rawdon, Captain Francis, Lord 246, 256, 380, 399

  Raystown 127, 128, 129, 130, 132, 136, 139, 143, 145, 151

  Read, James 294

  Reading 330

  Red Bank 312, 319

  Redstone Creek 51, 52, 60

  Reed, Colonel Joseph 215, 216, 223, 234, 247, 263, 264, 274, 275, 280, 373

  Repetigny, Louis Le Gardeur de 43

  Revolutionary War 3, 5, 50, 77, 78, 150, 191–420

  Bemis Heights 313

  British abandon Philadelphia and head for New York 339–42

  British surrender at Yorktown 405–9

  Brooklyn Heights 239–40

  build-up to 179–88

  Burgoyne surrenders to Gates 313, 316

  capture of Philadelphia 307

  Caribbean theater 339, 349, 355

  the Carolinas 349–50, 378–79, 380, 399

  Charleston expedition 230

  Cowpens and Guilford Court House 378–79

  Eutaw Springs 399

  fall of Charleston 359

  final stages 411–18

  Fort Washington 259–62

  Franco-American alliance and campaigns 314–15, 338–39, 345–46, 355–56, 359–60, 375–78, 381, 382–96, 401–6, 411

  Georgia 348

  Germantown 308–10, 311–12

  hopes for negotiated settlement 213, 228, 233–35, 241, 245–46, 254, 260

  Indian war 351–55

  invasion of Canada 212, 217, 221, 229, 231

  Monmouth Court House 342–45

  New York campaign (1781) 382–86

  New York and New Jersey (1776) 227–70

  outbreak of hostilities 188, 191

  Peace of Paris (1783) 418

  Pennsylvania campaign 297–312, 316–21

  recapture of Boston 223–26

  Rhode Island 346

  Saratoga campaign 307–8, 315–17

  siege of Boston 188, 191, 193, 203–4, 206, 207, 210, 214–15, 218, 222–24

  southern campaign 359–61, 378–79, 380, 386–90

  Staten Island conference 245–46

  Trenton-Princeton campaign 272–96

  Virginia 382, 383, 386–90

  virtual civil war in south 362

  war at sea 408–9, 355–56, 374–75, 381, 389, 391–92, 395–96

  White Plains 256–57

  Yorktown campaign 392–400

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua 6, 68

  Rhode Island 271, 272, 356, 359, 360, 362, 372, 375, 381, 383, 384, 392

  troops from 218, 277

  Richmond 374, 387

  Richmond, Captain Christopher 414

  riflemen 204–5, 212, 258, 264, 265–66, 275, 283, 287, 288, 308, 339, 352, 367, 387

  Roanoke River 103

  Robertson, Lieutenant General James 366

  Robinson, John 68, 94, 133, 159

  Rochambeau, General Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de 359–60, 362, 364, 372, 375, 376, 377, 381, 382, 383–84, 386, 387, 390, 392, 393, 394, 396, 401, 406, 411, 427 />
  Rochambeau, Vicomte de 381

  Rockingham, Charles Watson Wentworth, Lord 410

  Rocky Hill 295

  Rodney, Admiral Sir George 362, 363, 395

  Rodney, Captain Thomas 290

  Rogers, Major Robert 119, 157, 276

  Romney, George 354

  HMS Romulus 375

  Root, Sergeant Nathaniel 284–85, 292, 297

  Roxbury 210

  Royal Academy 7

  Royal American Regiment 99, 109, 114, 120, 123, 128, 163, 276

  Royal Artillery 70, 291, 407

  Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment 391

  Royal Military Academy, Woolwich 1

  Royal Navy

  press American sailors to man vessels 424,

  Revolutionary War 213, 214–15, 224, 227, 231, 233, 255, 299, 344, 360, 377, 391–92, 395–96, 402

  Washington destined for 29

  Royal Proclamation of Rebellion (1775) 208

  Rupert of the Rhine, Prince 14

  Rush, Benjamin 193, 231, 245–46, 269, 278, 279, 285, 311, 329–30, 332, 345

  Russia 184

  mercenaries from 229

  Rutledge, Edward 245

  St. Clair, Brigadier/Major General Arthur 276, 289, 307, 422–23

  St. Clair, Sir John 73, 126, 127, 147

  St. John 217, 307

  St. Lawrence River/Valley 58, 65, 148, 212

  St. Lucia 339, 349

  Saint-Pierre, Captain Jacques Legardeur, sieur de 43–45, 102

  Sandusky, Battle of 412

  Sandy Hook 302, 340, 345, 390

  sanitation 202–3

  Saratoga, battles of 308–9, 313–15, 316–17, 330, 343

  Savannah 349, 355, 408, 418, 426

  Savoy, Eugene, Prince of 165

  Saxe, Marshal Maurice de 319, 424

  Schuyler, Major General Philip 199, 212, 217, 273, 308

  Schuylkill River 307, 321

  scorched-earth strategy 168, 354

  Scotch-Irish settlers 31

  Scotland

  emigration to North America 298

  recruits from 298

  Scott, General Charles 318, 423

  scouting parties 114

  Scully, Michael 136

  Second Continental Congress 188, 191

  see also Congress

  Ségur, Philippe-Henri-Marie, Comte de 381, 382

  Seneca Indians 39, 41, 168, 176, 355

  “Sentiments on a Peace Establishment” 421

  Serle, Ambrose 234, 242, 253, 262, 283, 337, 354

  servants, indentured 15, 19–20, 99

  Seven Years’ War 6, 169–70, 238, 262, 360, 377

  see also French and Indian War

  Seward, Ann 367

  Shabakunk Run 288

  Sharpe, Horatio, lieutenant governor of Maryland 52, 65, 66, 91, 92–93, 95

  Shaw, Major Samuel 294

  Shawnees 36, 40, 58, 135, 141, 148, 161–62, 171, 175, 352, 412, 422, 424

  Shenandoah Valley 29, 32, 83–84, 86, 103, 125, 184

  Shingas, Chief 39, 73

  Shirley, William, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts 89, 91, 92

 

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