Detroit, force to check Clark from, 223. Devonshire, Duke of, costly residence, 18. Dickinson, John, of Pennsylvania, on Declaration of Independence, 78. Dilworth, Cornwallis marches on, 119. Dinwiddie, Governor, Washington and, 16. Donop, Count von, at Trenton, 102, 104. Dorchester Heights (MA), American troops on, 47-48. Dumas, French officer with Rochambeau, 231. Dunmore, Lord, Governor of Virginia, 224. E East River, location, 87; British on, 93. Edward, Fort, St. Clair retires to, 127; Burgoyne at, 129, 130-141; Indian raids at, 140; Burgoyne seeks to return to, 143. Elkton (MD), Howe at, 116, 118; American army at, 258. Emerson, chaplain, diary quoted, 35. England, in eighteenth century, 16-19; state of society, 19, 59; Parliament votes tax on colonies, 23; politics, 24-25, 64 et seq., 268; attitude toward the colonies, 54-55, 58; prosperity, 59; difficulties in raising army, 178; France and, 182-183, 187-188, 191-192, 195-196, 206, 270; Whig attitude after French intervention, 189-190; and Spain, 187, 203-204, 206; navy in 1779, 204; domestic affairs, 207; treaty of peace, 272; see also Army, British. Estaing, Count d', French admiral, 195; at the Delaware, 196-197; at Sandy Hook, 200-201; at Newport, 201-202; at Savannah, 214-215. Eutaw Springs, battle of, 250. F Falmouth (Portland, ME), destroyed, 81. Ferguson, Major Patrick, 216; King's Mountain, 221-222; killed, 222. Fersen, Count, with French army, 232. Finance, value of continental money, 209; Franklin procures money in France, 271. Florida returned to Spain, 273. Foch, general, quoted, 101. Fox, C.J., and carelessness of ministers, 68; urges conciliation, 69. France, French in Canada, 38; alliance with, 182 et seq.; and England, 182-183, 187-188, 191-192, 195-196, 206, 270; treaty of friendship with America (1778), 187; and Canada, 188; and Spain, 203; promises soldiers to Washington, 210; help in 1780, 230 et seq.; bibliography of alliance, 280. Franklin, Benjamin, on Lexington, 2; on George III, 25; member of commission to Montreal, 50; on committee to meet Howe, 93; satirizes British ignorance, 138; in Congress, 164; induces Hessians to desert, 180; sent to Paris, 185; and Loyalists, 225, 270, 271. Fraser, General, killed, 143. Frederick the Great, of Prussia, estimate of Washington, 105; urges France against England, 187. G Gage, General Thomas, 72; at Boston, 3, 4-5. Gates, General Horatio, 98, 110, 172, 173; in command of Lee's army, 99-100; joins Washington, 100; discourages Washington, 103; against Burgoyne, 142-145; intrigue, 149-151; menaces Clinton in New Jersey, 198; command in the South, 219; Camden, 219; Greene supersedes, 247.