CHRONOLOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Note.—The contemporaries of Washington named in this index are in general only persons so associated with or opposed to the cause he stood for as to influence his military action.
Events are treated and indexed in chronological order, so that the index becomes thereby a miniature biography of the characters taking part in the events narrated. It may often prove interesting to note the age of a prominent actor in these events at the time, by calculating it from the year of his birth when given below.
Abbreviations.—For various nationalities:Am.(American);Br.(British);Fr.(French);H.(Hessian). In the biographical notices,b.for birth andd.for death are used; and occasionally,k.for killed,w.for wounded, and like familiar abbreviations may be found. The subsequent career of many is indicated thus—Cornwallis,sub.gov.-gen. India.