fur hat
ill health of
in London
in Paris
physical appearance of
as printer and inventor
transatlantic crossing
women and
Franklin, Deborah Read
Franklin, James
Franklin, Josiah
Franklin, William
Franklin, William Temple
Fraunces Tavern
Frederick the Great
Freeman’s Farm
French and Indian War
Braddock’s Defeat
frostbite
Gainey, Micajah
Gates, Horatio
Saratoga battles
George II, king of England
George III, king of England
arsenic poisoning
descent into madness
end of war
robes of
George IV, king of England
Georgia
Germain, George
Germantown, Battle of
German troops. See Hessians
Germany
Gibbons, Mary
gin
Gist, Mordecai
Glorious Revolution
Grant, James
Gray, Thomas
Great Chain
Great Lakes
Greene, Caty
Greene, Nathanael
Greensboro, North Carolina
grog
Guadeloupe, HMS
guerrilla warfare
Guilford Courthouse, Battle of
gun deck
gunpowder
Hale, Nathan
Halkett, Peter
Hamilton, Alexander
death of
postwar life
at Yorktown
Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler
Hamilton, William
Hancock, John
hand-to-hand combat
hangings
Harcourt, William
Harrison, Benjamin
Hartley, David
Heath, William
Hemings, Betty
Hemings, Robert
Hemings, Sally
Henry, Patrick
Henry VIII, king of England
Hessians
Heyward, Thomas, Jr.
Hickey, Thomas
hanging of
Hillsborough, Lord (Wills Hill)
Holland
Honeyman, John
horses
hospitals
House of Commons
House of Lords
Howard, Lord (Charles Howard)
Howard, William
Howe, Richard
Howe, William
at Germantown
New York campaign
postwar life
Hudson River
Hudson River Valley
Huntington, Ebenezer
Huntington, Samuel
Hutchinson, Thomas
Hutchinson letters
Independence Day
Independence Hall
India
Intolerable Acts. See Coercive Acts
Ireland
iron production
Iroquois Indians
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Elizabeth Hutchinson
Jamaica
Jamaica Pass
James, John
Jameson, John
James River
James II, king of England
Jamestown
Jay, John
Jefferson, Jane
Jefferson, Lucy Elizabeth
Jefferson, Martha
Jefferson, Mary
Jefferson, Patsy
Jefferson, Thomas
death of
Declaration of Independence
essays by
as governor of Virginia
independence debate
at Monticello
notebook of
postwar life
Sally Hemings and
slaves of
Johnson, Thomas
Johnson, William
Jones, John Paul
at Flamborough Head
postwar life
Jouett, Jack
Keith, William
Kentucky
Ketchum, Isaac
King’s Closet
Kings Mountain, Battle of
Knox, Henry
Lafayette, Marquis de
postwar life
latrines
Laurens, Henry
Laurens, John
Lee, Charles
capture of
Lee, Henry “Lighthorse Harry”
Lee, Richard Henry
Lee, Robert E.
Leutze, Emanuel, Washington Crossing the Delaware
Lexington, Battle of
lice
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln, Benjamin
Livingston, Robert
London
London Chronicle
Long Island
long rifle
Loring, Elizabeth
Loring, Joshua
Louisiana
Louisiana Purchase
Louis XVI, king of France
Loyalists
African American
postwar
in South Carolina
Luzerne, Chevalier de la
Madison, James
Maine
malaria
Manhattan, See also New York City
Manuel, Louis-Pierre
Marion, Francis
at Blue Savannah
postwar life
Maryland
Massachusetts
Bunker Hill
charter revoked
Lexington and Concord
militia
siege of Boston
Masters-Penn Mansion
Matthews, David
Mawhood, John
McKean, Thomas
McKonkey’s Ferry
Mercer, Hugh
merchant vessels 123
Middleton, Arthur
military drills
militias. See also specific state militias
Mississippi River
mixed-race children
Mohawk Indians
molasses
Molasses Act
Moncks Corner, South Carolina
Monmouth, Battle of
Monroe, James
Montagu, John
Monticello
Montreal
Morgan, Daniel
Morgan’s Riflemen
Morris, Robert
Morristown, New Jersey
Mount Pleasant
Mount Vernon
Mount Whoredom
muskets
wet
Native Americans
French and Indian War
war tactics
see also specific tribes
Nelson, Thomas
New Brunswick
Newburgh, New York
New England Courant
New France
New Hampshire
New Jersey
militia
Monmouth
Princeton
Trenton
wartime
New London
New Orleans, Battle of
New York
militia
Saratoga battles
New York City
Brooklyn battle
retaken by Washington
wartime
New York Harbor
Nicolls, Mari
Norfolk, Virginia
North, Lord (Frederick North)
North Carolina
wartime
North Castle, New York
Nova Scotia
nurses
O’Hara, Charles
Ohio River Valley
Old Stone House
Olive Branch Petition
Oswald, Richard
Paine, Thomas
The American Crisis
Common Sense
Paoli’s Massacre
Paris
society
Treaty of Paris
Parliament
end of war
patriots
Patton, George S.
Paulding, John
Pearson, Richard
Pee Dee River
Penn, Richard
Penn, William
Pennsylvania
Germantown
militia
Valley Forge
Pennsylvania Gazette
Pennsylvania State House
Philadelphia
British occupation of
society
Pitt, William (Lord Chatham)
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Portugal
Potomac River
powder monkeys
presidential election, first
Presidential Mansion
primogeniture
Princeton
Battle of
prison ships, British
privateering
privy
Privy Council
Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition, A
propaganda
prostitution
Prussians
public executions
Putnam, Israel
Quakers
Quebec
Quincy, Josiah
Rall, Johann
rape
Read, George
Reed, John
refugees
religion
Reprisal, USS
Revolutionary War
Arnold’s treason
beginning of
Blue Savannah
Brooklyn Heights
Bunker Hill
casualties
Delaware River crossings
end of
fall of Charleston
Flamborough Head
French alliance
Germantown
Lexington and Concord
Monmouth
in New Jersey
in New York City
peace talks
Princeton
Saratoga battles
siege of Boston
in South Carolina
surrender of British Army
Treaty of Paris
Trenton
Valley Forge
Virginia campaign
Yorktown
see also British Army; Continental Army; militias; specific battles and officers
Rhode Island
Richmond
British invasion of
Ritchie, Juliana
roads
Rochambeau, John-Baptiste
Rodney, Caesar
Roman Empire
royal colonies
Royal Society
rum
Rush, Benjamin
Rutledge, Edward
Rutledge, John
St. James’s Palace
sanitation, poor
Santee River
Saratoga, First Battle of
Saratoga, Second Battle of
Savage, HMS
Savannah
scalping
Scammell, Alexander
Schuyler, Philip
science
“scorched earth” policy
Scotland
Selden, Ezra
sentries
Serapis, HMS
Seven Nations of Canada
Seven Years’ War. See French and Indian War
Shawnee Indians
Sherman, Robert
Shippen, Edward IV
Shippen, Peggy. See Arnold, Peggy Shippen
shipping
merchant vessels
smuggling
shoes, shortage of
Six Nations
slavery
smallpox
inoculation
Smith, Joshua Hett
South Carolina
Blue Savannah
fall of Charleston
militia
wartime
Spain
Armada
spies
British
French
Loyalist
of Washington
Stacey, Samuel
Stamp Act
stand of arms
Stansbury, Joseph
Staten Island
Staten Island Peace Conference
Stephen, Adam
Sterne, Laurence, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Stevenson, Margaret
Stevenson, Polly
sugar
Sugar Act
Sullivan, John
Sumter, Thomas
Supreme Court, U.S.
Tappan, New York
Tarleton, Banastre
postwar life
Tarrytown, New York
taverns
taxation
tea
textiles
Thomas, John
Thompson, Elizabeth
Thomson, Charles
Tilghman, Tench
Till, Hannah
tobacco
Tories
Townshend Acts
trade
transatlantic crossing
treason
of Benedict Arnold
high
Treaty of Alliance between France and the United States
Treaty of Paris
Trenton, Battle of
Trumbull, John
Tryon, William
United States, birth of
Valley Forge
conditions
Van Arsdale, Jack
Van Wart, Isaac
Vergennes, Count of
Vernier, Pierre-François
Virginia
legislature
militia
society
wartime
Yorktown
von Steuben, Baron
postwar life
voting rights
Vulture, HMS
wagons
Wales
Walpole, Horace
Ward, Artemis
War of 1812
Warren, James
Washington, DC
Washington, George
Arnold’s treason
assassination plot against
becomes commander of Continental Army
Brooklyn defeat
Cornwallis surrenders to
council of war
death of
Delaware River crossings
elected president
end of war
false teeth of
French and Indian War
at Germantown
horses and
ill health of
Life Guards of
military strategy
at Monmouth
in New Jersey
New York campaign
personality of
in Philadelphia
plot to capture Arnold
postwar life
at Princeton
retakes New York City
siege of Boston
slavery and
smallpox and
spies of
at Trenton
at Valley Forge
at West Point
at Yorktown
Washington, John Augustine
Washington, Lawrence
Washington, Lund
Washington, Martha
Wayles, John
Wedderburn, Alexander
Weems, Mason
West Indies
Westminster Abbey
West Point
Whig Party
White, Joseph
Whitehall Palace
White’s tavern
Wickes, Lambert
Wilkinson, James
William of Orange
Williams, David
Williamsburg, Virginia
With
erspoon, John
women
Parisian
prostitutes
rape
wartime role of
Wythe, George
“Yankee Doodle” (song)
Yates, Bartholomew
York, Pennsylvania
York River
Yorktown
Siege of
trench preparation
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Epilogue
Postscript
Notes
Sources
Illustration Credits
Index
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