United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns; Washington, George, 1732-1799
cannot exchange Arnold for André, 291
watches the American mutiny, 309
advises with Lord Germaine, 309
sends Arnold to Virginia, 310
doubts Arnold’s discretion, 310
sends good officers with him, 310
equally powerless with Cornwallis, 324
learns of effort to capture Arnold, 325
sends Phillips to support Arnold, 326
orders Arnold to New York, 331
disturbed by Arnold’s correspondence with London officials, 332
receives Washington’s decoy letters, 335
“in a state of siege”, 335
other decoy letters reach him, 336
orders Cornwallis to report to him, 337
calls for reënforcements, 338
intercepts other decoy letters with plans enclosed, 346
outgeneraled by Washington, 347–8
writes Cornwallis—promising help, 350
advises Cornwallis to strike Philadelphia, 352
does not understand Washington, 352
hears from Cornwallis, 358
sails for Yorktown too late, 358
contemporaneous surrender of Cornwallis, 359–60
is relieved of command in New York, 361
succeeded by Sir Guy Carleton, 361
COLLIER, _Sir_ GEORGE—_Br._ commodore.
convoys Clinton and his troops up the Hudson, 253
his fleet visits New Haven, 256
relieved by Admiral Arbuthnot, 261
Colonial Congress at New York, 1765, 11
nine Colonies represented; others ratify action, 11
names of Colonies that were not represented, 11
the Declaration of Rights, 11
denounces Stamp Act, Oct. 7, 1755, 13
Colonial expeditions, 1755, 10
additional, 1758, 10
Colonial governments and their forms described, 16
Columbian Exposition, 1892, noticed, 372–3
Commissioners sent to Canada, 88
General and Admiral Howe meet American commissioners in New York, 98
arrange terms between Cornwallis and Washington, 359
Committee of Congress visits Boston, 60
Committee of Correspondence, 1773, and their purpose, 15
Connecticut Farms, N.J., burned by General Knyphausen, 279
Connecticut sends 2,000 men to Boston, April 26, 1775, 23
assigns Putnam, Wooster, and Spencer to command, 23
sends volunteers to New York with Lee, 71
her militia greatly reduced, 116
responds to Washington’s appeal, 116
twice invaded by Tryon, 166, 256
invaded by Arnold, 351
Continental Army organized, 32
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