Frŏn´te-năċ, Count, governor of Canada, 184 governor of New France, 177 La Salle confers with, 181 Frontenac, Fort, destroyed, 211 Gāġ_e_, General, governor of Massachusetts, 232, 245 sent to Boston, 224 wins battle of Bunker Hill, 240 Gas´pee Point, _Gaspee_ burned at, 217 Gātes, Burgoyne surrenders to, 270 defeated at Camden, 299 proposed as commander-in-chief, 274 supersedes Schuyler, 269 "Gate´way of the West," Ohio called, 191 General Court, in colonial government, 125 Ġěn´o-a, Columbus born at, 36, 37 trading city, 35 Ġen-o-eşe´, seek new road to East, 35 George, Lake, battle of, 209 George I., 162 George II., grants Georgia to Oglethorpe, 165 George III., offers Americans representation, 272 olive-branch petition sent to, 232 recognizes independence of the United States, 322 taxation of colonies, 218 Ġ_e_ôr´ġi-a, British driven out of, 315 conquered by British, 297 De Soto in, 68 not represented in First Continental Congress, 229 Ger´man settlement, in Germantown, 150 German soldiers, hired by British, 245 Ger´man-town, battle of, 264 Germans settle in, 150 Ġĭ-bra:l´tar, Strait of, Northmen at, 25 Ḡil´bert, Sir Hum´phrey, at Newfoundland, 83 Gĭst, trapper, accompanies Washington, 196, 197 Gŏf_fe_, flees to New Haven, 136 leads colonists against Indians, 141 Gold´en Hill, fight at, 225 Good Hope´, Cape of, discovered, 42 Ḡôr´ġěş, founds colony in Maine, 130 Gŏs´nold, discovers Cape Cod, 86 Gov´ern-ment of New England colonies, 125 Grand Can´yŏn of Colorado, 68 Great Charter of Virginia, 101 Great Lakes, missions established on, 177 Great Meadows, battle at, 198 Great Rebellion in Virginia, 160 Great South Sea, discovered, 64 Greeç_e_, seat of learning, 32 Green Bay, Marquette and Joliet at, 177 Green Mountain Boys, cut Burgoyne off from Canada, 267 march to Fort Ticonderoga, 237 Greene, General Nathanael, American commander, 312 defeated at Fort Washington, 256 defeated at Guilford Courthouse, 314 joins Morgan, 313 leaves Fort Lee, 257 Green´land, discovered, 27 Indians in, 14 Grěn´ville, British minister, 223 Grĭş´wold, Fort, seized, 316 Ḡ_u_ĭl´ford Courthouse, Greene defeated at, 314 Ḡ_u_ĭn´ē_a_, stories about, 35 Gulf Coast, explored, 65, 66 Gulf of Mex´i-co, La Salle reaches, 181 Gulf of St Law´rence, French possessions on, 213 Gṳnn´biorn (byorn), discovers Greenland, 27 Hăck´en-săck, Washington at, 257 Hăd´ley, Indian attack at, 141 Hā_i_´tï, discovered by Columbus, 50 Spanish colony in, 62 Spanish mutiny at, 57 Hale, Nathan, death of, 255 _Half-Moon_, Hudson's ship, 103 Hăn´cock, John, at Lexington, 234 president of Second Continental Congress, 238, 250 Härt´ford, Charter Oak in, 168 founded, 132 trading station at, 131 Här´vard College, origin of name, 125