United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns; Washington, George, 1732-1799
BYRON, JOHN—_Br._ admiral; _b._ 1723, _d._ 1786.
relieves admiral, Lord Howe, 239
fleet scattered by a storm, 239
arrives off Boston, 245
CADWALLADER, JOHN—brig.-gen.; _b._ 1743, _d._ 1786.
guarding the Delaware, 141
fails to cross river, 142
crosses Delaware at Bristol, 146
arrives at Trenton, 151
at Princeton, 156
at Bordentown, 156
CÆSAR, JULIUS—Roman general; _b._ 100 B.C., _d._ 44 B.C.
his campaigns cited in comparison (Preface), viii
his methods imitated by Washington, 313
CALDWELL, JAMES—his church burned by the British, 271
his wife shot by the British, 279
furnishes hymn books for gun-wadding at Springfield, 284
CAMPBELL, WILLIAM—_Am._ col.; _b._ 1745, _d._ 1781;
at Battle of King’s Mountain, 293
Canada lost to France, 1763, 10
as a British base, 30
invasion urged by Congress, 50
Arnold its active spirit, 51
Congress again moves, 52–3
difference in religious faith, 52
two expeditions planned, 55
did not support Burgoyne, 55
failure of the expeditions, 66
visited by commissioners, 88
visited by small-pox, 88
costs five thousand American lives in sixty days, 88
British reënforcements come, 89
abandoned by the American army, 89
the excuse of Congress, 89
Canadian Acts of Parliament, 50
expeditions of Schuyler and Montgomery, 52, 55
expedition again suggested, but opposed by Washington, 252
CARLETON, _Sir_ GUY—gov., of Canada, _sub._ gov. New York; _b._ 1724,
_d._ 1808.
Arnold’s report of his small force in Canada, 51
flees from Montreal in disguise to Quebec, 64
pays military honors to his old comrade, Montgomery, 66
his magnanimous parole of American prisoners of war, 66
being largely reënforced in June, 1776, takes the offensive, 89
succeeds Clinton in N.Y., 362
coöperates with Washington, 363
surrenders New York, 363
CARRINGTON, EDWARD—col., _sub._ quartermaster-gen. (South); _b._ 1749,
_d._ 1810.
indorsed by Chief Justice Marshall, 301
explores the Southern rivers, 302
commissioner to exchange prisoners, 318
CARROLL, CHARLES—last survivor of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence; _b._ 1737, _d._ 1832;
commissioner to Canada, 88
CARROLL, _Rev._ JOHN—_sub._ Archbishop of Maryland; visits Canada and
reports a terrible condition of affairs, 88
CATHARINE II. OF RUSSIA—_b._ 1729, _d._ 1796;
is hostile to British commerce, but favors American interests, 296
Charleston, S.C., captured by Clinton, 275
Charlestown Heights, neglected by British, 34
occupied by Americans, 34
occupied by British, 35
abandoned, 61
Charlottesville, Va., a Hessian prison-camp, visited by Tarleton, 340
CHASE, SAMUEL—Md.; _b._ 1741, _d._ 1811;
appointed commissioner to Canada, 88
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