United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns; Washington, George, 1732-1799
SAINT (ST.) CLAIR, ARTHUR—maj.-gen; _b._ 1734, _d._ 1818.
at Battle of Princeton, 154
writes a boastful letter, 175
abandons Ticonderoga, 175
Saint (St.) John, N.B., founded by British Provincials, 363
May 17th its natal day, 363
honors Washington, 363
Saint (St.) John’s, captured Nov. 3, 1775, 62
André among the prisoners, 62
SAINT (ST.) LEDGER, BARRY—_Br._ col.; _b._ 1737, _d._ 1789;
invades the Mohawk valley, 171
SAINT (ST.) LUC, LA CORNE DE—_b._ 1712, _d._ 1784.
as to hiring Indians, 173
is rebuked by Burgoyne, 173
SAINT (ST.) MEMIN, CHARLES BALTHAZAR JULIEN FAVRE DE—_Fr._ artist; _b._
1770, _d._ 1852;
his profile of Washington, by a crayon process of his own, the last
portrait of Washington taken, _frontispiece_
SAINT (ST.) SAUVEUR, _Chevalier_ DE—_Fr._; _k._ at Boston, 247
a monument to his memory ordered, 247
SAINT (ST.) SIMON, CLAUDE HENRI, _Count_ DE—_Fr._; _b._ 1760, _d._
1825.
arrives with De Grasse, 342
lands 3,000 French troops, 342
reports to Lafayette for duty, 342
waves seniority of rank, 343
urges immediate assault, 343
yields to Lafayette’s judgment, 343
sails for the West Indies, 362
Salem, Mass., declines benefits of Boston Fort Bill, 16
Savannah, Ga., responds to call from Lexington, 29
intercepts royal letters to governors, 30
Committee of Safety, acts promptly, 30
besieged without success, 267–8
SCHOVALHOFF, _Count_—Russian statesman; his prediction at the Berlin
Conference verified in 1898, 370
SCHUYLER, PHILIP—maj.-general; _sub._ U.S. senator; _b._ 1733, _d._
1804.
appointed maj.-gen., 36
his antecedents, 36
his career outlined, 37
honored by Kent and Webster, 37–8
ordered to Canada, 55
among the Six Nations, 61
urged forward by Washington and joins Montgomery, 61
advised as to Allen’s misadventure, 62
suspends resignation at Washington’s request, 63
his Orderly Book, 63
again advised by Washington,, 64
is to expect a bloody summer, 87
ridicules hiring Indians, 88
to resist Carleton’s advance, 163
is relieved by Gates, 173
is promptly restored, 173
offers Gates a command, 173
it is sneeringly declined, 173
his energetic action, 174
is absent, sick, without fault, 175
has a prophetic letter from Washington, 175
organizes a large army, 176
is superseded by Gates, 176
returns to Congress, 273
on committee to visit Washington, 273
is urged to be Secretary of War, 328
gives reasons for declining, 328
Second Continental Congress, May 10, 1775, 31
provides money and munitions, 31
delegates from Georgia make action unanimous, 31
rules and articles of war adopted, 31
denounces acts of Parliament as “unconstitutional, oppressive, and
cruel”, 31
Second New Jersey campaign, and its results, 167
SEVIER, JOHN—_Am._ col.; _b._ 1745, _d._ 1815;
at King’s Mountain, his descendants honored, 293
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