Stark posted men: Coffin, 12.
“. . . you will be slain.”: Forbes, 279.
“I have no command . . .”: Coffin, 15.
“. . . whites of their eyes”: Fleming, 245.
dead thick as sheep: Coffin, 13.
Howe’s deployment: Ibid., 9–17.
Putnam and Gerrish: Ketchum, Decisive, 165.
“. . . let me die in peace.”: Ibid., 172.
Pitcairn speaking about duty: John Clarke, 18.
“. . . might have led them up.”: Coffin, 33.
Warren’s death: Frothingham, Warren, 517; Cary, 221.
John Dutton’s death: John Clarke, 8.
Otis at battle: Starrett, 154; Fiske, “Eve,” 376.
WASHINGTON: 1775
“A few such victories . . .”: Ketchum, Decisive, 209.
“. . . sell them another hill . . .”: Fiske, “Eve,” 377.
losses: Forbes, 281; Murdock, Bunker Hill, 32.
“. . . seven times seven years.”: Washington, Writings, ed. Fitzpatrick, III, 294.
“. . . embarked on a wide ocean . . .”: Ibid., 30 June 1775.
Washington named for Eskridge: Cunliffe, 23–24.
Washington description: Hodges, 18.
Washington copied rules: Cunliffe, 26n.; Hughes, 29.
verses on true happiness: Haworth, 5–7.
Mary Washington: Flexner, Forge, 19.
blanket with fleas: Whipple, 785.
romped with neighborhood girl: Hodges, 15.
Sally Fairfax: Cunliffe, 30.
wrote four times: Fleming, Yours, 16.
Mary Washington objects to military service: Turner, 184.
“As to the summons . . .”: Freeman, II, 368.
French assured Washington privately: Cunliffe, 35.
pay of eightpence a day: Alberts, 5.
“. . . charming in the sound”: Fleming, Yours, 18.
Washington signs confession: Flexner, Forge, 104.
Indians joining French or neutral: Alberts, 44.
“He would not say so . . .”: Cunliffe, 37.
Washington famous for incompetence: Flexner, Forge, 108.
Washington exceeded authority: Alberts, 25.
Sally Fairfax asks Washington not write: Flexner, Forge, 123.
a gentle rebuke: Fleming, Yours, 27.
“Honoured Madam”: Bellamy, 19.
Washington at end of column: Cunliffe, 39.
“I take this early opportunity . . .”: Whipple, 786.
“Your honor will, I hope . . .”: Cunliffe, 42.
Washington slow to praise: Freeman, I, 370–71.
favors to Fairfax sons: Ibid., III, Appendix II.
Washington’s teeth: Haworth, 13–14.
Washington to Martha: Fleming, Yours, 32.
“. . . this lady is known to you.”: Ibid., 33.
confused firing in woods: Freeman, II, 357–58.
price of Fort Necessity: Alberts, 57.
slave named Will: Kitman, 155.
servants afraid to deliver note: Turner, 220.
“. . . the irritability of some of us is enough to—”: John and Abigail Adams, 106.
Dickinson cuts Adams: John Adams, Diary, II, 173.
Samuel Adams taught to mount: Warren, I, 110–11.
country folk gape at Hancock: Fowler, 194.
Hancock’s gifts to Dorothy Quincy: Hancock, 203.
Congress debates move: Burnett, Letters, I, 113.
“I, poor creature . . .”: John and Abigail Adams, 92.
Randolph’s death: Fowler, 199.
“. . . sentimental effusions . . .”: John and Abigail Adams, 100–101.
British slaughtering cows: Fleming, Yours, 58–59.
“. . . amazing good natured.”: Thatcher, Hewes.
“exceedingly dirty and nasty people”: Washington, Writings, ed. Fitzpatrick, III, 433.
Washington did not whip slaves: Kitman, 54.
cider confiscated: “Orderly Book of Camp at Cambridge.”
“The general does not mean . . .”: Ibid., 6.
“He is a queer creature . . .”: Willard, 46.
Church’s treason: Freeman, III, 545–48.
Church examines Attucks: Sibley, XIII.
“. . . or I perish.”: Freeman, III, 548.
Church’s sister: French, 151.
Church claims to be gleaning information: Goss, I, 207–8.
Revere saw Church: Tourtellot, 227–28.
Hutchinson’s report on Church: Sibley, XIII, 384.
Church allowed to ride: Forbes, 285.
Army pay: Kitman, 29.
holdovers away on furlough: Lecky, 232.
“the mild general”: Ketchum, Decisive, 213.
Howe had written home: George III, Correspondence with North, II, 13.
“Sir William, he . . .”: Ketchum, Decisive, 36.
LEE: 1775
Arnold’s expenses disallowed: Boylan, 46–47.
Catholic population: Pemberton, 233.
a new Inquisition: Wandell, 42.
“Let us run together . . .”: Freeman, III, 536.
“The Great American Congress . . .”: Ibid., 533.
“the sweepings of the streets”: Wandell, 44.
“You will die . . .”: Ibid., 45.
eating dog: Arnold, 67.
eating duck: Ibid., 57.
Greer’s wife: Ibid., 66.
sickness drops men to 650: Ibid., 60.
“. . . force and energy?”: John and Abigail Adams, 113.
“To the storming . . .”: Arnold, 80.
“We shall be in the fort . . .”: Wandell, 50.
Burr tries to drag Montgomery: Lomask, 41.
“. . . enter it in triumph.”: Arnold, 84.
“I will not execute you now.”: Dorson, 46.
“I tremble . . .”: Alsop, 32.
Bonvouloir: Ibid., 14–24.
“Mr. Straham . . .”: Ronald Clark, 276.
“Everyone here is a soldier. . . .”: Alsop, 31.
“America is the hope . . .”: Ibid., 35.
“England is the natural enemy . . .”: Ibid., 32.
Washington on Ethan Allen: Scheer and Rankin, 127.
“Men, I do not know . . .”: Ibid., 113.
“bring on a rumpus . . .”: Fleming, Affectionately Yours, 80.
Washington had read Burgoyne’s letter: Ibid., March 31, 1776.
Washington writing about parapets: Ibid., Feb. 1, 1776.
Barrels filled with dirt: Heath, 32–33.
“. . . committed suicide.”: Montross, 134.
“. . . dog in a dancing school.”: Scheer and Rankin, 194.
“Naso”: Burke Davis, Washington, 18.
“Boiling Water”: Patterson, 40.
“Sir, I will never give Your Majesty . . .”: Walpole, I, 404–5.
John Adams on Lee: Miller, Triumph, 70.
Lee borrows 15 pounds: Alden, 73.
“We want you at N. York . . .”: Lee, Papers, I, 312.
“Colonel, I see . . .”: Ibid., 154.
JEFFERSON: 1775–76
Paine’s mother a shrew: Edwards, 5.
God was too good: Conway, I, 11.
the Headstrong Book: Connell, 18.
Paine’s eyes and women: Hawke, Paine, 14.
Elizabeth Paine: Edwards, 16.
“. . . husband or an oppressor”: Conway, I, 45–46.
“I rejected . . .”: Paine, 44.
Paine longed for independence: Wills, 330.
“O ye that love mankind! . . .”: Paine, 50.
Paine and John Adams: John Adams, Diary, III, 333–34.
“a better hand . . .”: Scheer and Rankin, 168.
Jefferson receives Common Sense: Malone, I, 217.
“The blood of the slain . . .”: Paine, 40.
Paine donates royalties: Conway, I, 69.
Regulators: Montross, 134.
South Carolina sentiment turns: Conway, I, 78.
Virginia
instructions: Malone, I, 217.
Harrison’s joke: Montross, 131.
“Defeated most ignominously. . . .”: Ibid., 139.
“created as ourselves”: Maier, Old, 189.
Lee’s mutilated hand: Wills, 3.
Rutledge hoped for delay: Burnett, Letters, I, 476–77.
Adams-Jefferson exchange: Ibid., 541n.
Jefferson carried by slave: Randall, I, 11.
Jefferson’s inheritance: Malone, I, 32; Page Smith, Jefferson, 9.
“filled the college with children”: Ibid., 15.
Jefferson did not allow cards: Randolph, 30.
Fauquier used ice: Malone, I, 77.
“I do wish the devil . . .”: Nock, 19.
Jefferson’s travel plans: Ibid., 21.
“This should be . . .”: Ibid., 22.
“When young and single . . .”: Malone, 1, 449.
coat of arms: Ibid., 156.
Jefferson wrote “spinster”: Curtis, 32.
Jefferson willing to sink island: Brodie, 130.
INDEPENDENCE: 1776
Jefferson’s Virginia draft: Jefferson, Papers, I, 33ff.
Jefferson wrote in “self evident”: Wills, 181–82.
Jefferson on property: Page Smith, Jefferson, 96–97.
meaning of “pursuit”: Schlesinger, “Lost Meaning,” 323–25.
New Yorkers had petitioned: Force, 24.
South Carolina’s assembly moved: Fisher, 274.
blacks outnumbered whites ten to one: Brodie, 41.
one third of Virginia was black: George Howard, 20.
Bland was denounced: Brodie, 103.
Jefferson did not permit whipping: Ibid., 22.
Jefferson advertised and sold slave: Ibid., 104.
Jefferson as lawyer: Ibid.
John Adams objected: Meigs, 233.
Adams considered denunciation best part: Becker, Declaration, 213.
Witherspoon on ripeness: Trevelyan, II, 158.
Dickinson on delay: Wells, II, 432.
Adams felt like actor: John Adams, Diary, III, 397.
“It ought to be commemorated . . .”: John and Abigail Adams, 142.
Jefferson on Northern merchants: Brodie, 144.
Franklin’s hatter anecdote: Jefferson, Works, X, 120.
Hutchinson degree: Bailyn, Ordeal, 356.
chancellor was North: Malone, I, 229.
Jefferson asked Lee to judge: Burnett, Letters, II, 2.
George III buried in Savannah: Brodie, 146.
Virginia’s deletions: Frank Moore, I, 266.
Jefferson’s journal: Brodie, 148.
“There! John Bull . . .”: Hazelton, 210.
“Most willingly . . .”: Chamberlain, 277n.
“. . . all hang separately”: Van Doren, Franklin, 551.
Evening Post: Bond, Aug. 10, 1776.
Morning Post: Aug. 12, 1776.
“A reply . . .”: Morning Post, Aug. 20, 1776.
“Here they enumerated . . .”: Gazetteer, Aug. 17, 1776.
“. . . a dignified contempt.”: Morning Post, Aug. 20, 1776.
“the despised Americans . . .”: Bond, Public Advertiser, Sept. 11, 1776.
400,000 blacks: Middlekauff, 28.
slave fans speaker: Hazelton, 277.
LONG ISLAND: 1776
usefulness of assassination: Wells, II, 438.
Hopkins impatient to leave: Burnett, Letters, II, 78.
Franklin’s plan rejected: Pleasants, 5–6.
Samuel Adams on state sovereignty: Miller, Triumph, 426.
governments of colonies: Nevins, 2.
Massachusetts bloodlines: Ibid.
Virginia on excluding blacks: Jensen, Making, 25.
Rutledge’s goals: Jensen, Articles, 128.
George Washington as king: Ibid., 112.
Pacific 100 miles from Atlantic: Ibid., 154.
John Adams on Swiss model: Montross, 182.
no Northern surpluses: Ibid.
“It is of little consequence . . .”: Burnett, Letters, II, 56.
Britain’s greatest force: Ketchum, Decisive, 126.
“Let us drub Howe . . .”: Miller, Triumph, 118.
Hickey and Lynch: Freeman, IV, 115.
Mary Gibbons: Ross, 1, 197.
all clergy cutthroats: Freeman, IV, 120.
forest of trimmed pine trees: Burke Davis, Washington, 87.
Washington’s deployment: Coakley, 46.
George III statue: Freeman, IV, 134.
molded into 42,088 bullets: Ketchum, Decisive, 127.
Washington and Howe letter: Freeman, IV, 140; Brooks, 59.
“. . . something exceedingly mysterious . . .”: Washington, Aug. 19, 1776, in Writings, ed. Fitzpatrick, V, 458.
Howe on “criminal’ action: Maldwyn A. Jones, “Sir William Howe,” in Billias, Opponents, 53.
Greene’s background: Theodore Thayer, “Nathanael Greene,” in Billias, Generals, 109.
Franklin’s propaganda: Burke Davis, Washington, 97.
“Lord Stirling”: Trevelyan, III, 177.
Washington rejected cavalry: Burke Davis, Washington, 100.
Clinton had lived in New York: William B. Willcox, “Sir Henry Clinton,” in Billias, Opponents, 74.
Jamaica road guards seized: Irving, 216.
“But we’re here . . .”: Burke Davis, Washington, 102.
“I will not ask . . .”: Scheer and Rankin, 186.
“Good God! . . .”: Burke Davis, Washington, 105.
Stirling fought like a wolf: Trevelyan, II, 280.
NEW YORK: 1776
Scammel’s blunder: Scheer and Rankin, 193.
Washington left old cannon: Trevelyan, II, 290.
George III knighted Howe: Maldwyn Jones, “Sir William Howe,” in Billias, Opponents, 52.
Connecticut militia drops: Flexner, Indispensable Man, 83.
“Would to Heaven . . .”: Rodney, 112.
“I wish that the first ball . . .”: Charles P. Whittemore, “John Sullivan,” in Billias, Generals, 145.
“A decoy duck . . .”: Burnett, Letters, II, 70n.
Franklin on colds: John Adams, Autobiography, III, 418.
Adams approved of meeting site: Ibid., 420.
Adams’ impression of Lord Howe: Ketchum, Winter, 117.
“Mr. Adams is a decided character.”: Burke Davis, Washington, 122.
“General Howe is either . . .”: Ibid., 117.
Greene on Francis I: Trevelyan, II, 295.
Germans sang hymns: Burke Davis, Washington, 124.
“Take the walls!”: Freeman, IV, 193.
Germans stabbed Americans: Ibid.
“dastardly sons of cowardice”: Miller, Triumph, 134.
Greene thought Washington willing to die: Trevelyan, II, 300n.
“Good God, have I got . . . ?”: Freeman, IV, 194n.
woman hoisted Britain’s banner: Serle, 104–5.
“You can hardly conceive . . .”: Freeman, IV, 203.
Washington to Lund Washington: Washington, Sept. 30, 1776, in Writings, ed. Fitzpatrick, VI, 138.
“Providence or some good honest fellow . . .”: Scheer and Rankin, 212.
Hale hanged: Mackenzie, I, 62–63.
TRENTON: 1776
Howe outflanked Americans: Middlekauff, 350.
British took 19 days for 74 miles: Miller, Triumph, 142.
“They will neither fight . . .”: Scheer and Rankin, 231.
Washington complains about New Jersey support: Washington, Dec. 18, 1776, in Writings, ed. Fitzpatrick.
Paine and Gates: Patterson, 65.
“These are the times . . .”: Paine, 75.
Lee is paid 11,000 pounds: Miller, Triumph, 70.
“I do not mean to flatter . . .”: John Shy, “Charles Lee,” in Billias, Generals, 35.
Lee’s troops looting: Dwyer, 131.
“I am told . . .”: Burke Davis, Washington, 153.
female screaming: Ibid.
“Entre nous . . .”:
Lee, Papers, II, 345.
“With this sword . . .”: John Shy, “Charles Lee,” in Billias, Generals, 40.
“Here, sir, are the British cavalry!”: Dwyer, 145.
Honeyman escape: Keller, 18–19.
Howe’s officers not enthusiastic about winter campaign: Channing, III, 232.
Catherine of Russia refused soldiers: Bolkhovitinov, 6.
Prices of mercenaries: Lowell, 5.
Hessians described: Azoy, “Merry,” 484–85.
Rall drank: Miller, Triumph, 155.
Rall persuades Howe: Dwyer, 151.
Rall doesn’t build defenses: Channing, III, 233.
“Let them come! . . .”: Burke Davis, Washington, 161.
“Christmas Day at night . . .”: Patterson, 110.
Washington’s plan: Freeman, IV, 308.
“What a time . . . !”: Ibid., 309.
Gates does not join: Stryker, 131.
“I am determined . . .”: Ibid., 132.
“Shift that fat ass . . .”: Fast, 120.
“Then tell the general . . .”: Stryker, 140.
Washington’s near-fall: Dwyer, 248; Burke Davis, Washington, 166.
“Press on! . . .”: Stryker, 143.
Hamilton’s speech: Baldwin, 29–30.
Hamilton pats cannon: Burke Davis, Washington, 165.
“You, sir . . .”: Freeman, IV, 313.
“Fiddlesticks! . . .”: Dwyer, 221.
Rall is warned: Stryker, 123–25.
“What’s the matter”: Ibid., 154.
“You need not be frightened. . . .”: Ibid., 162.
soldiers’ hands over touchholes: Keller, 22.
“Colonel Rall, there is yet . . .”: Burke Davis, Washington, 171.
“Alle wer meine Grenadiere . . .”: Stryker, 173.
“I pity you.”: Ibid., 174.
“. . . I will blow you to pieces.”: Ibid., 184.
“This is a glorious day . . .”: Dwyer, 263.
“Hätte ich dies . . .”: Stryker, 192.
Hessians burned furniture: Dwyer, 262.
PRINCETON: 1776–77
Occupations of Hessians: Stryker, 196.
Washington looking sly: Ibid., 210.
I will remain if you will: Sergeant R—, 515.
“How dreadful the odds.”: Dwyer, 294.
Hessians seemed satisfied: Stryker, 213.
Hessian evaluation of Putnam: Dwyer, 298.
Assunpink Creek possible to ford: Custis, 179–80.
“. . . We’ve got the old fox . . .”: Azoy, “Happy,” 225.
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