DUNMORE, JOHN MURRAY, _Lord_—_Br._ gov. Virginia; _b._ 1732, _d._ 1818. seizes colonial powder, 28 opposed by Patrick Henry, 28 takes refuge on board the man-of-war _Fowey_, 28 bombards Norfolk, New Year’s day, 1776, 68 is visited by Gen. Clinton, 85 DU PORTAIL, LEBEGUE—_Fr._ brig.-gen.; _d._ 1802. captured at Charleston, 300 succeeded as engineer by Kosciusko, 300 reconnoitres with Washington, 336 visits the Count de Grasse with Washington, 353 EFFINGHAM, _Lord_—_Br._; resigns when ordered to America, 21 Elizabethtown, N.J., visited by Knyphausen, 227 Engineering defined, with note (Preface), xi ERSKINE, _Sir_ WILLIAM—_Br._ brig.-gen.; captured by _Am._ privateer at sea, 98, 99 warns Cornwallis at Trenton, 155 attempts to capture Lafayette, 216 Eutaw Springs—the last battle at the South, 321 Evacuation of Boston (_Br._), 80 Brooklyn (_Am._), 113 New York (_Am._), 127 Philadelphia (_Br._), 222 Charleston (_Am._), 267 Yorktown (_Br._), 361 New York (_Br._), 363 EWING, JAMES—brig.-general; failed to cross at Trenton, 1776, on Christmas night, 162 FAIRFAX, BRYAN, _Lord_—_b._ 1730, _d._ 1802; friend of Washington, 5 Fairfield, Conn., raided by Governor Tryon, 255 FEBIGER, CHRISTIAN—colonel at Stony Point, 257 First Continental Congress, at Philadelphia, Sept. 5, 1774, 16 its officers and members noticed, 16 Washington a member, 17 honored by Lord Chatham, 17 supports Massachusetts, 17 FLEURY, LOUIS DE. See De Fleury. FORMAN—brig.-gen., at Battle of Germantown, 195 Forrest’s battery (_Am._) at Trenton, 145 Forts Clinton and Montgomery captured (see map), 179 Fort Du Quesne, became Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh), 10 Fort Mercer and its gallant defence, 201 Fort Mifflin, planned by De Fleury (_Fr._), 202 France retains certain American possessions by Treaty of Paris, 1763, 11 makes a formal alliance with America, 213 sends an ambassador to America, 238 sends a fleet to America, 238 sends a second fleet to America, 261 sends an army to America, 286 sends a third fleet and troops to America, 342 sends money to America, 348 shares in the trophies of Yorktown, 388 Franco-Prussian war cited in comparison (Preface), vii FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN—philosopher, diplomat, and statesman; _b._ 1716, _d._ 1790. urges a union of the Colonies, 1754, 12 the convention of July 4, 1754, the result, 12 reasons for its failure, 12 on passage of Stamp Act, writing to Charles Thompson, 13 Thompson’s reply quoted, 13 describes the servile attitude of the English people, 18 chairman Penn. Committee of Safety, 28 his opinion of fight at Breed’s Hill, 34 commissioner to Canada, 88 commissioner to meet Gen. and Admiral Howe, 116 secures French support, 209 writes as to Washington’s standing abroad, 308 influence with Holland and Spain noticed, 309 secures a loan from Holland, 348