Washington and His Comrades in Arms: A Chronicle of the War of IndependenceWrong, George McKinnon
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Washington and His Comrades in Arms: A Chronicle of the War of Independence
Wrong, George McKinnon
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Military leadership
New York City, on side of Revolution, 37; Washington plans to hold,
37-38; loss of, 53, 81 et seq., 108, 148; statue of King destroyed, 80;
burned, 94-95; Washington plans march to, 116; for naval defence, 195;
Loyalists take refuge in, 227; French army moves toward, 253; Washington
returns to, 269; Washington bids farewell to army at, 274.
Newgate jail burned, 208.
Newport (RI), Lord Howe's fleet at, 100; British hold, 201; French fleet
sails into, 233; French army leaves, 253.
Noailles, Vicomte de, on foot from Newport to Yorktown, 259.
Norfolk (VA), destroyed, 81.
North, Lord, Prime Minister, 63-64, 190-191; George III writes to, 61;
seeks to retire, 192, 193; and news of Yorktown, 267; resigns, 268.
North Carolina, and independence, 75; campaign in, 247-251.
Northwest, United States retains, 273.
Nova Scotia, Washington's belief of sympathy in, 42; Loyalists go to,
227.
O
Ogg, F.A. The Old Northwest, cited, 224.
Oriskany (NY), battle of, 135.
P
Paine, Thomas, 74; Common Sense, 75.
Palliser, Sir Hugh, and British naval quarrel, 207,
Panther, Wyandot chief, shows scalp of Miss McCrae, 140.
Parker, Admiral Sir Peter, before Fort Moultrie, 82-83.
Pennsylvania, and independence, 75; loyalty, 101; Howe plans to secure
control of, 113; "Black Lists" of Loyalists, 226.
Percy, Earl, opinion of rebels in America, 32.
Petersburg (VA), Arnold at, 251.
Philadelphia, second Continental Congress at, 1, 7-9; Washington sets
out from, 9; on side of Revolution, 37; Paine in, 74; Howe plans
to secure, 100, 101; loss of, 108 et seq., 148; Howe leaves, 194;
Mischianza in, 194-195; British abandon, 196; Loyalists hanged in, 226;
Arnold in command at, 238; French army reviewed in, 257-258.
Pigot, General, at Newport, 201.
Pitt, William, see Chatham, Earl of.
Politics, see England.
Prescott, Colonel, at Bunker Hill, 4;
Preston, Major, British officer at St. Johns, 44.
Prevost, General Augustine, at Charleston, 213-214.
Prices, 167.
Princeton, Cornwallis at, 106.
Prisons, British prison-ships, 153; London riots, 208.
Privateers, checked at Newport, 100; France and, 186.
Providence (RI), Greene and Sullivan at, 201.
Putnam, Israel, at Bunker Hill, 4,6; leaves New York, 94.
Q
Quebec (QC), Arnold and Montgomery before, 45-46, 49-50, 82, 98, 238;
Morgan at, 172, 247.
Quebec Act, 38-39, 41.
R
Rahl, Colonel, at Trenton, 102; killed, 104.
Rawdon, Lord Francis, at Bunker Hill, 6; at Camden, 219, 250.
Reed, Joseph, charge against Arnold, 239.
Revolutionary War, bibliography, 277-278.
Rhode Island, British control, 100; Washington's campaign against,
201-202; British evacuate, 211.
Richmond, Duke of, opinion of Revolution, 69.
Richmond (VA), Arnold burns, 251.
Riedesel, General, at Lake Champlain, 125; effective service to British,
179-180.
Riedesel, Baroness, reports conditions in New England, 137.
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