McCrae, Jennie, carried off by Indians,140.McNeil, Mrs., carried off by Indians,140.Maine, Arnold's expedition,43,44.Marie Antoinette, Queen, zeal for liberal ideas,183; Fersen friend of,232.Marion, Francis, guerrilla leader,220,247.Marlborough, Duke of, costly residence,18.Martha's Vineyard (MA), Loyalist refugees plunder,228.Maryland, and independence,75; Howe plans to secure control of,113.Massachusetts, Suffolk County defies England,28-29; North and constitution of,191; list of Loyalists,226.Minorca returned to Spain,273.Mirabeau, French officer in America,232.Mississippi River becomes western frontier of United States,273.Monmouth Court House (NJ), battle of,198-199; Lee at,176.Montgomery, General Richard, expedition to Canada,43; at Quebec,45-46; death,46-47,48.Montreal, Montgomery enters,44; Commission sent to,50; evacuated,51; St. Leger reaches,136.Morgan, Captain Daniel, at Quebec,46; with Greene,247; at Cowpens,248.Morris, Gouveneur, opinion of Congress,162.Morristown (NJ), American headquarters at,99,106,110.Moultrie, Fort (SC), battle at,83.Mount Vernon (VA), Washington's estate,20,259,275.Murray, Mrs., saves Putnam's army,94.
Narragansett Bay (RI), British blockade French fleet in,234.Navy, American, Jones and,204-206; need for supremacy,231.Necessity, Fort (PA), surrender of,148.New Bedford (MA), Loyalists burn,228.New England, question of leader from,8; and Washington,11; character of people,29;equality in,33; on independence,75; revolutionary,81; and Indians,137; and Burgoyne,145; States jealous of,164-165.New Hampshire offers bounty for Indian scalps,137-138.New Jersey, Washington's flight across,97,100; Lee retreats to,99; loyalty,110; Howe's proclamation,110; Washington recovers,106; Howe moves across,110,114; Clinton crosses,196,197.New York, on independence,75; Howe's proclamation,101; Howe's plan to hold,113; acquires Loyalist lands,228.New York City (NY), on side of Revolution,37; Washington plans to hold,37-38; loss of,53,81et seq.,108,148; statue of King destroyed,80; burned,94-95; Washington plans march to,116; for naval defence,195; Loyalists take refuge in,227; French army moves toward,253; Washington returns to,269; Washington bids farewell to army at,274.Newgate jail burned,208.Newport (RI), Lord Howe's fleet at,100; British hold,201; French fleet sails into,233; French army leaves,253.Noailles, Vicomte de, on foot from Newport to Yorktown,259.Norfolk (VA), destroyed,81.North, Lord, Prime Minister,63-64,190-191; George III writes to,61; seeks to retire,192,193; and news of Yorktown,267; resigns,268.North Carolina, and independence,75; campaign in,247-251.Northwest, United States retains,273.Nova Scotia, Washington's belief of sympathy in,42; Loyalists go to,227.
Ogg, F.A.The Old Northwest, cited,224.Oriskany (NY), battle of,135.
Paine, Thomas,74;Common Sense,75.Palliser, Sir Hugh, and British naval quarrel,207,Panther, Wyandot chief, shows scalp of Miss McCrae,140.Parker, Admiral Sir Peter, before Fort Moultrie,82-83.Pennsylvania, and independence,75; loyalty,101; Howe plans to secure control of,113;“Black Lists”of Loyalists,226.Percy, Earl, opinion of rebels in America,32.Petersburg (VA), Arnold at,251.Philadelphia (PA), second Continental Congress at,1,7-9; Washington sets out from,9; on side of Revolution,37; Paine in,74; Howe plans to secure,100,101; loss of,108et seq.,148; Howe leaves,194; Mischianza in,194-195; British abandon,196; Loyalists hanged in,226; Arnold in command at,238; French army reviewed in,257-258.Pigot, General, at Newport,201.Pitt, William,seeChatham, Earl of.Politics,seeEngland.Prescott, Colonel, at Bunker Hill,4;Preston, Major, British officer at St. Johns,44.Prevost, General Augustine, at Charleston,213-214.Prices,167.Princeton (NJ), Cornwallis at,106.Prisons, British prison-ships,153; London riots,208.Privateers, checked at Newport,100; France and,186.Providence (RI), Greene and Sullivan at,201.Putnam, Israel, at Bunker Hill,4,6; leaves New York,94.
Quebec (QC), Arnold and Montgomery before,45-46,49-50,82,98,238; Morgan at,172,247.Quebec Act,38-39,41.
Rahl, Colonel, at Trenton,102; killed,104.Rawdon, Lord Francis, at Bunker Hill,6; at Camden,219,250.Reed, Joseph, charge against Arnold,239.Revolutionary War, bibliography,277-278.Rhode Island, British control,100; Washington's campaign against,201-202; British evacuate,211.Richmond, Duke of, opinion of Revolution,69.Richmond (VA), Arnold burns,251.Riedesel, General, at Lake Champlain,125; effective service to British,179-180.Riedesel, Baroness, reports conditions in New England,137.Rochambeau, Comte de, leader of French army in America,230-231; idea of naval supremacy,231,255; and Washington,234,236,237; on American situation (1781),246; goes to Yorktown,258; in Virginia,269.Rockingham, Marquis of, Prime Minister,268.Rodney, Admiral, arrives in America,236; captures St. Eustatius,246; captures Grasse,266,270.Russia, British endeavor to get troops in,179; Armed Neutrality,206.
St. Clair, General Arthur, at Fort Ticonderoga,127.St. Eustacius, captured by Rodney,246.St. Johns, Montgomery captures,44.St. Leger, General Barry, at Fort Stanwix,133-134; at Oriskany,135-136.Saint-Simon, French officer in America,232.Sandy Hook (NY), French fleet at,200,201.Saratoga (NY), Burgoyne at,132,141,143; Burgoyne's surrender,68,122,143-147,149,186; Arnold at,238; Morgan at,247.Savannah (GA), British land at,211.Savile, Sir George, opinion of the Revolution,69.Schuyler, General Philip, goes to Canada by way of Lake Champlain,43; Gates supersedes,142.Serapis(ship), Jones captures,205.Shelburne, Lord, Prime minister,268.Shippen, Margaret,195; marries Arnold,239.Simcoe, General J.G., with Clinton at Charleston,216; Governor of Upper Canada,228.Skinner, C. L.,Pioneers of the Old Southwest, cited222.Slavery, Washington as a slave-owner,21.Slave-trade, Declaration of Independence makes King responsible for,77.South, war in the,211et seq.South Carolina, neutrality proposed,213; British control,217.Spain, against England,187,203-204,206; navy,187; and Gibraltar,270; and peace treaty,272.Stamp Act,69,183,192.Stanwix (NY), Fort, St. Leger before,133-134.Staten Island (NY), Howe on,86,87,115.States, Congress and,163.Steuben, Baron von, service in Revolution,174-175; in Virginia,247.Stillwater (NY), American camp at,141; Burgoyne attacks Gates at,142-143; Burgoyne's defeat,143.Stirling, Lord, prisoner,89.Stony Point (NY),99.Stuart, Gilbert, and Washington,16.Sullivan, General John, takes prisoner at battle of Long Island,89; sent by Howe to interview Congress,92; exchanged,99; at Morristown,99; and Washington,110-111; at Germantown,122; at Providence,201.Sumter, Thomas, guerrilla leader,220,247.Sweden, Armed Neutrality,206.
Talleyrand, French officer in America,232.Tarleton, Colonel Banastre, raids,216,217; at Camden,219-220; and Marion,221; King's Mountain,248; takes Charlottesville (VA),252-253; in Yorktown,263; and Cornwallis,264.Terrible(ship),261.Test Acts,226.Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant),134.Thomas, General, on Plains of Abraham,50.Thompson, General, attacks Three River,51.Three Rivers (QC), attack on,51.Throg's Neck (NY), Howe at,95.Ticonderoga (NY), Fort, captured by Allen,39-40,42; Arnold retreats to,53; Burgoyne lays siege to,126-127; Lincoln besieges,142.Tories, plundering of,111;see alsoLoyalists.Toronto (ON), Loyalists in,228.Transportation, need of military engineers for,152.Trenton (NJ), Howe at,100; attack on,101-107,109; Greene at,171.Tryon, Governor of New York,225.
Valley Forge (PA) Washington at,148et seq.; Washington leaves,196.Vergennes, French Foreign Minister, 182-183,184,197,271.Vincennes, Clark at,223.Virginia, choice of a commander from,8; state of society,19-20,32-33; on independence,73; Convention changes church service,79; Burgoyne's force in,146; covets lands in Northwest,222; Steuben in,247; Cornwallis in,251.Vulture(sloop of war),241,242,243.
Walpole, Horace59,64,73-74; Gates godson of,142; quoted,217.Ward, General Artemus, and siege of Boston,3.Washington, George, at second Continental Congress,1,259; champion of colonial cause,1-2,23-24,59; chosen Commander-in-Chief,8-9; journey to Boston,9-11; personal characteristics,11,13-16,109; life,11; as a landowner,12; education,13; contrasted with English country gentlemen,17-20; wealth;20,56; as a farmer,20-21; a slave-owner,21; with Braddock,22-23; opinion of George III,25,63; not a professional soldier,27; reorganizes army,30-35; favors conscription,34; at Boston,36; plans against Canada,40-43; mourns Montgomery,47; hated of British,57-58; Coke and,71,72,189; advocates independence,75; headquarters in New York,82,87; Howe's letter to,86-87; at Brooklyn Heights,88-91; exposed to enemy in New York,93; and Congress,96,146,163-164; Lee and,98-99,199; retreats across New Jersey,100; attack upon Trenton,101-107,109; on Howe's dilatoriness,109; in New Jersey,110; and Sullivan,111; policy toward Loyalists,111; on plundering,111; need of maps,111; and Howe,113-115,118,120,142; and Burgoyne,116; at the Brandywine,118-119; Germantown,121-122; at Valley Forge,148et seq.; religion,161; relations with staff,167-168; as military leader,170; volunteers come to,174; distrustful of France,188-189; celebrates French alliance,193; army occupies Philadelphia,196; follows Clinton across New Jersey,197-198; Monmouth Court House,199; despair of, 1779-1780,208-209; guards Hudson,209-210; French under,210; opinion of Tories,227; and Rochambeau,234,236,237,255; reprimands Arnold,239-240; and Andre,243; plan differs from French,255; march to Yorktown,255et seq.; and Carleton,269; believes self-interest dominant in politics,271-272; bids farewell to army,274; gives up command,275; at Mount Vernon,275; influences upon future,275-276; bibliography,278.Washington, Fort (NY), held by Americans,96-97; British take,97.West Indies, conquests restored,273.West Point (NY), fortification,236,237-238; Arnold in command,238; plot to surrender,240-244.White Plains (NY), battle of,96.Wight, Isle of, plan to seize,204.Wilkes, John, introduces bill into Parliament,191.Wilmington (NC), British fleet reaches,82; Cornwallis in,250.Winslow, Edward, quoted,49.Wyoming (PA) massacre,229.