The Story of the Thirteen ColoniesGuerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
History
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies
Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Vine´land, Northmen's name for America, 28
Vir-ġin´i-a, Arnold in, 309
civil war in, 158
drives away Catholics, 152
education in, 157
government of, 101
granted to Raleigh, 83, 85
Jamestown founded in, 105
Natural Bridge, 194
Powhatan king of, 94
presented to Culpepper and Arlington, 156
prosperity in, 153
royal promise, 154, 160
royalists in, 155
women sent to, 100, 101
Voyageurs (vwȧ-yȧ-zhẽr´), travelers called, 176
_Vul´ture_, English vessel, 305
Wạdş´worth, Captain, conceals charter, 167
defies Governor Fletcher, 169
Wal´dron, Major, killed by Indians, 184
Wall Street, origin of name, 144
Wạm´pŭm, use of, 23
War, French and Indian, 198-213
King George's, 189, 190
King Philip's, 138-140
King William's, 184, 186
of the Austrian Succession, 189, 190
Pequot, 132, 133
Pontiac, 214
Queen Anne's, 187
Revolutionary, 234-321
Seven Years', 210
Ward, quotation from, 241
Wạr´ren, Dr., addresses minutemen, 235
dies at Bunker Hill, 241
Wạsh´ing-ton, Augustine, 191
Washington, Colonel William, 312
Washington, Fort, Americans at, 255
captured, 256
Washington, George, advice to Braddock, 207
appeals to Robert Morris, 303
assists Forbes, 210
at Fort Duquesne, 207, 208
at Great Meadows, 198
at Valley Forge, 264, 273
boyhood of, 191-193
called "Savior of his Country", 262
chosen general of army, 238
crosses Delaware, 260
defeated at Brandywine, 264
defeats Hessians at Trenton, 260, 261
disbands his army, 323
discipline of, 243, 244
enters Boston, 247
farewell address of, 321, 324
Gates to supersede, 274
headquarters at Cambridge, 242
Howe's letter to, 253
in First Continental Congress, 231
in Second Continental Congress, 238
major in Virginia regiment, 196
marches to Yorktown, 316, 317
outwits Cornwallis, 261
plans to capture Cornwallis, 315, 316
retreats up the Hudson, 254, 256, 258, 259
returns to Mount Vernon, 324
sent to French commander, 196
surveyor, 94
tactics of, 257
victory at Princeton, 262
Washington, Lawrence, 195
Washington, Mrs., at Valley Forge, 274
Washington Park, soldiers buried in, 256
Wạtts, 257
Wā_y_n_e_, Anthony, captures Stony Point, 284, 285
Wěs´l_e_ў, John, founder of Methodist Church, 165
West In´d_i_ēş, colonists send lumber to, 127
discovered by Columbus, 54
negro slavery in, 80
Spanish colonies in, 64
Washington in, 195
West´min-ster Abbey, Major André buried in, 308
monument to Wolfe in, 213
West Point, Arnold in command of, 305
Wē_y_´m_o_ŭth, Standish victorious at, 123
Whal´ley, flees to New Haven, 136
Whĭt_e_´field, supports first orphan asylum, 165
White-ha´ven, Paul Jones at, 294
White Land, Gunnbiorn discovers, 27
White Plains, André taken to, 306
battle of, 256
Wig´wạms, tents of Indians, 15
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