by Ray Raphael
Wells, William V., 36, 41, 91–92
West Indies, 244–45, 247, 251, 254–55, 256
West Point, 54, 65
westward expansion, 262, 263–78; British policy regarding, 184; Henry and, 183–84; historians on, 263–64; and Indians, 183–84, 264–65, 269–78; land rights legislation, 275–78, 388n31; slavery question, 394n2. See also Indians and the American Revolution
Whiskey Rebellion, 40
White, John Todd, 66
White, Richard, 323
“whites of their eyes†command (man-to-man combat), 188, 189–201, 372n25, 372n27, 373n28; historians and, 197–200, 372n25, 372n27, 373n28; and Waxhaws massacre, 190–91. See also Bunker Hill, Battle of
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 59
Wikipedia, 68–69, 317–18, 347n54
Williams, George W., 212–13, 376nn20–21
Williams, William, 282
Williamsburg, Virginia, 175, 181–83
Williamson, Andrew, 269
Wills, Garry, 46, 282
Wilson, James, 146, 159–60, 359n40
The Winter at Valley Forge (Mason), 99
Wirt, William, 177–81, 184–86, 289, 314, 367n2, 370n24
Woburn, Massachusetts, 20
Wolcott, Oliver, 282, 390n5
women and the American Revolution: at Battle of Monmouth, 49–68, 317–18, 341n14, 342nn20–21, 344n33; “camp followers,†51, 53–56, 60, 66, 69–70, 341n14; cannon-firing crews, 342n20, 344n33; as Founding Sisters, 165–66; textbooks, 312, 317, 321–22. See also Adams, Abigail; Pitcher, Molly
Wood, Gordon, 160–61, 162–63, 364n4
Woodson, Carter G., 213–14
Worcester, Massachusetts: local declaration of independence, 125–26, 128, 313–14; and Massachusetts Revolution (1774), 80–88, 93, 94
Worcester County militia, 82–84
World War II, 259
Wright’s Tavern, 351n54
Wythe, George, 282, 390n5
“Yankee Doodle†(song), 97
Yorktown, British defeat at, 242–61, 302; Britain’s empire and global context of the Revolution, 249–61, 302, 315, 326; British peace treaties, 245–46, 255–56; Cornwallis’s defeat and surrender, 242, 243, 246, 256, 260; historians and, 256–61; post-Yorktown deathtoll, 248–49; and post-Yorktown war, 243–49, 381n11, 381n13; textbooks, 243, 258–61, 383n35
Young, Thomas, 46, 316
Zeamer, Jeremiah, 345n22
