Washington, George, siege of Boston, 119; at Trenton, 119; at Princeton, 119, 121; at battle of the Brandywine, 119; at Germantown, 119; at Morristown, 121; Philadelphia campaign, 121, 122; confers with Congress, 123; confidence in Schuyler, 127; loss of Philadelphia, 143; at Williamsburg, 145; at Yorktown, 147–149; elected President, 154; death, 154. Washington, D. C., seat of government, 154. _Wasp_ captures the _Frolic_, 155. Wayne, Anthony, defeats Miami Indians, 154. Weedon, George, at the siege of Yorktown, 147. Welles, Gideon, Secretary of the Navy, 291. West, Captain, bought the site of Richmond, Va., 15. West Indies, France, Spain, and England, in, 5. Weyler y Nicolau, Valeriano, in Cuba, 348. Wheeler, Joseph, in Spanish War, 364. Whiskey Insurrection in Philadelphia, 154. Wigfall, L. T., at the surrender of Sumter, 270, 271. Wilcox, C. M., and Pickett’s charge, 324. Wilderness, battle of the, 327. Wilkinson, James, commissioner 143. Willett, Marinus, at the siege of Fort Schuyler, 129. William Henry, Fort, captured, 63. William III., death, 60. Williams, Major, killed at Bunker Hill, 115. Williams, Gen. Seth, at Appomattox, 336, 337. Williams, Roger, purchase of Rhode Island, obtains patent from Parliament, 42. Winslow, Josiah, Governor of Plymouth, 52. Wisconsin, admitted into the Union, 229. Wolfe, James, expedition against Quebec, 66; career and character, 66, 67; forces, 67, 68; advance, 68, 69; progress of siege, 72; illness, 74; on Plains of Abraham, 75; death, 76. Wood, Leonard, and Rough Riders, 362. Wool, J. E., expedition against Mexico, 192; at Buena Vista, 200. Worden, J. L., _Monitor-Virginia_ fight, 278; story of the fight, 281–284. “Writs of assistance,” right of search, 83; legalized, 90. Wyoming, admission into the Union, 345. Wyoming Valley massacre, 144. Yarnell, Lieutenant, courage of, at the battle of Lake Erie, 169, 170. Yorktown, siege of, 145–150; British forces, 146; allied forces, 147; Cornwallis’s surrender, 149; results, 150–153. THE END Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed. Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected, renumbered into a single sequence, and placed just before the Index. Page 347: “exterritorial” was printed that way. End of Project Gutenberg's Decisive Battles of America, by Ripley Hitchcock