Battles -- United States; United States -- History, Military -- To 1900
Gates, Horatio, supersedes Schuyler, 131;
at Behmus’s Heights, 133;
increase of army, 134;
deprives Arnold of command, 134;
terms proposed to Burgoyne, 139, 142;
reputation, 143;
defeated at Camden, 144.
_General Lezo_ in Spanish War, 355.
George I., King of England, 60.
George II., accession, 61.
George III., accession, 77.
Georgia, charter, 5;
secession, 231.
Germaine, Lord George, and loyalists, 120.
Germany, result of Thirty Years’ War, 4.
Gerrish, Colonel, at Bunker Hill, 112, 115.
Gettysburg campaign, Lee’s northward march, 307;
Federal movements, 309;
Federal cavalry, 309;
misuse of Confederate cavalry, 309, 310;
Meade displaces Hooker, 310, 311;
forces, 311;
map, 312;
battle first day, 313;
topography of field, 316;
second day, position of forces, 317;
Longstreet and Lee, 317, 318, 322;
Round Top and Valley, 319, 320;
Culp’s Hill, 321;
Federal council, 321;
third day, 321;
Pickett’s attack, 324;
Lee confesses error, 325;
question of counter-charge, 325;
losses, 326;
Lincoln’s disappointment, 326.
Gibbon, John, in Gettysburg campaign, 316.
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, takes possession of Newfoundland, 13.
Gillis, J. P., Sumter relief expedition, 266.
Gimat, Colonel, at the siege of Yorktown, 148.
_Gloucester_ in Spanish War, 369.
Gosnold, Bartholomew, attempts settlement on Massachusetts coast, 13.
Grant, U. S., proposed annexation of Santo Domingo, 11;
Fort Donelson, Lincoln’s faith in, 296;
destruction of Holly Springs depot, 296;
in command before Vicksburg, 298;
opposing force, 299;
naval auxiliary, 300;
futile operations, 300–301;
crosses river below Vicksburg, 302;
Port Gibson, 302;
abandons his base, 302;
victories in rear of Vicksburg, 302;
siege of Vicksburg, 304;
receives surrender of Vicksburg, 304;
commander-in-chief, 327;
at Appomattox, 335–342;
meeting with Lee, 336;
appearance, 340, 341;
elected President, 343;
Cuba, 348.
Grasse, François Joseph Paul, Count de, visited by Washington, 146;
blockades mouth of York River, 147.
Graves, Admiral, in command of British fleet at the Battle of Bunker
Hill, 106.
Greene, Christopher, at the battle of Guilford, 144.
Greene, Lieutenant, account of fight with the _Virginia_, 284–287.
Greene, Lieutenant-Colonel, at Fort Monroe, 251.
Greene, Nathaniel, joins army, 99;
at Jamaica Plains, 103.
Gregg, D. M., cavalry in Gettysburg campaign, 311.
Grenville, George, premier, 81;
colonial policy, 82;
Stamp Act, 84;
fall, 88.
Gridley, Charles Vernon, Manila Bay battle, 353.
Gridley, Richard, at Bunker Hill, 103, 104, 105, 111, 116.
Gridley, Samuel, at Bunker Hill, 104.
Grierson, B. H., raid, 302.
Guadalupe-Hidalgo, treaty of ratified, 196, 197.
Guadeloupe captured, 66.
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