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Hale, Franklin in France, 493.
Works, cited in footnotes, 5, 11,
45, 62, 67, 70, 96, 141-143, 149, 161,
185, 474-476, 482. Canada Pam-
phlet, cited, 5, footnote. Cool
Thoughts on the Present Situa-
tion (1764), cited in footnotes, 89.
Causes of American Discontents
before 1768, cited in footnotes, 45,
112.

Gadsden, 207.

Gage, General, Governor of Massa-
chusetts, 168; prepares for war,
175; misjudges American feel-
ing, 189; suspends writs summon-
ing Assembly, 194; sends troops
to capture provincial stores at
Concord, 201; orders negotiations
with the Indians, 221; inactivity,
231, 232.

Galloway, Joseph: proposes modifi-
cation of American Constitution,
193; on the American army, 224,
footnote; M. C. Tyler on the
work of, 492. Examination be-
fore the House of Commons, cited
in footnotes, 187, 193, 258, 275,
277, 283, 285, 286, 316, 319, 321,
394. Letters to a Nobleman on
the Conduct of the War, cited,
225, footnote.

'Gaspee,' the outrage on, by
Americans, 136; Bancroft's ac-
count, 490.

Gates, General: in joint command

with Schuyler, 261; succeeds
Schuyler, 324; joins cabal against
Washington, 362; commands
forces in North Carolina, 387;
court-martialed, 401.
Gentz, On the State of Europe be-
fore and after the French Revo-
lution, cited, 45, footnote.
George III.: first to realise the ef-
fect of the Stamp Act in America,
85; consents to its repeal, 94; de-
termines to coerce America, 189;
protests against military econ-
omy, 240; prescribes details of
English policy, 336; supports em-
ployment of Indians, 337; refuses
to treat with America on basis of
recognition of independence, 340;

determination not to accept Chat-
ham as minister, 351; compared
with attitude towards Fox in 1804,
352; persistent refusal of conces-
sion to America, 428; receipt of
news of surrender of Yorktown,
456; hostility to Rockingham
ministry, 459. Memoirs, see WAL-
POLE. Recollections of, see NICH-
OLLS. Correspondence with Lord
North, cited in footnotes, 189,
190, et passim.
Georgia, 30, 205, 361.
Germaine, Lord George, 334, 396,

458.

Governments, royal and proprie-
tary, 8, 67, 245.
Grahame, History of the United
States, cited in footnotes, 2, 7, et
passim.

Grasse, de, Admiral, in naval war
of 1781, 450, 457.
Graves, Admiral, 452.
Greene, General: favours burning
New York, 351; resigns, 401;
commands in North Carolina,
437.

Greene, G. W.: German Element
in the American War, cited in
footnotes, 211, 311, 382. Histori-
cal View of the American Revo-
lution, cited in footnotes, 225,
294, 313.

Grenville, George: his policy to-
wards America the real cause of
Revolution, 50 sqq.; arguments
for his scheme, 67 sqq.; contem-
plates American representation
in Parliament, 71; arguments for
taxing colonies, 86 sqq. Papers,
cited in footnotes, 52, 92, 94, 107,
148.

Guadaloupe, 3, 4, 5.

Habeas Corpus Act: enforced in
the colonies, 39; suspended, 331.
Hamilton, Alexander, 423. Works,
cited, 418, footnote.
Hamilton, Gerard, on military ca-
pacity of the colonies, 7, footnote.
Hancock, General, 153.
Hardwicke, Lord, 5.
Henry, Patrick: eloquent lawyer
in popular cause, 28; believes

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INDEX.

war inevitable, 189; stimulates
resistance to England, 192; leader
of yeomanry, 213; advocates pur-
chase of French assistance, 238.
Life, see WIRT.

Heroism, lack of, in American Revo-
lution, 230, 492.

Hildreth, History of the United
States, cited in footnotes, 6, 7, et
passim.

Hillsborough, Lord, Secretary of
State for the Colonies, 117.
Hinsdale, The American Govern-
ment, 486.

Holland, recognises American In-
dependence after Yorktown, 462.
Holmes, Annals of America (1765),
cited in footnotes, 82, 118.
Hood, Admiral, 452, 457.
Hopkins, Commander, 266.
Howard, On Prisons, cited, 131,
footnote.

Howe, Sir William, General: at
Bunker's Hill, 203; assumes com-
mand, 232; retreats from Boston,
234; captures New York, 250;
lack of enterprise, 274; incapaci-
ty, 278; retreats from New Jer-
sey, 282; continued inactivity,
314; expedition against Phila-
delphia, 317; opens the naviga-
tion of the Delaware, 318; re-
called, 358.

Howe, Lord (Admiral): command-
er of fleet against America, 249,
337, 359. Narrative, cited, 249,
footnote.

Howells, State Trials, cited, 330,
footnote.

Huske, 112, footnote.

Hutchinson, Lieutenant-Governor
of Massachusetts: condemns Sug-
ar Act, 54; victim of the riots,
81; becomes governor, 126; or-
ders removal of British troops
from Boston, 129; opinion on col-
lection of tea duty, 133; disputes
with the Massachusetts Assem-
bly, 135; letters to Whately, 145;
petition for his removal, 150; er-
ror as to strength of colonial re-
sistance, 189. History of Massa-
chusetts Bay, 1749-1774, cited in
footnotes, 5, 10, 72, 97, 101, 118,

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120, 126, 131, 133, 134, 153. See
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.

Immigrants, Scotch and Irish, in
the Revolution, 224.
Indians: American difficulties with,
6; affairs managed by the Crown,
11; treatment of, 36; missionary
efforts among, 37; war of 1763,
57; appeals to, from both sides
in the Revolution, 219 sqq.; em-
ployed by both sides, 263; bar-
barities, 264; desolation of Wyo-
ming, 361; Six Nations reduced
by Americans, 382.
Ireland, the army in, 60.
Iron manufacture, forbidden in the
colonies, 43.

Jamieson, Colonel, 411.
Jay, John, 251; negotiates for
peace, 1782, 465, 473; report to
Livingston, 498 sqq. Life of Jay,
cited in footnotes, 245, 473.
Jefferson, Thomas: drew up Decla-
ration of Independence, 246. Au-
tobiography, cited, 181, footnote.
Life, see TUCKER.

Johnson, Colonel Guy, 221, 263.
Johnson, Sir Williani, reports on
American Indians, 36, 37, foot-
note, 263.

Johnstone, George, 346.
Jones, History of New York, cited
in footnotes, 253, 256, 260, 264,
277, 282, 317, 335, 358, 411, 483.
Jones, Paul career of, 378; roving
commission on behalf of Ameri-
ca, 378. Life, see SHERBURNE.
Jones, Sir William, poem in praise
of American Revolution, 335.
Judges, position in the colonies,

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Kinglake, History of the Crimean
War, cited, 283, footnote.
Knox, Extra-official Papers, cited,
51, footnote.

Kosciusko, hero of Poland, in
service of America, 311, 409, foot-
note.

Lafayette, 319, 320; Washington's

attachment to him, 370; on the
court-martial of Major André,
414; at the head of forces in New
England, 442; spends private
money for his troops, 445; in
Virginia, 449 sqq.; takes part in
investiture of Yorktown, 452.
Mémoires de Lafayette, cited in
footnotes, 34, 173.
Langrishe, Sir Hercules, Consid-
erations on the Dependencies of
Great Britain, cited, 79, foot-

note.

Lansdowne, Papers, cited, 373, foot-

note.

Laurens, Henry, sent to negotiate
loan in France, 446.
Lawyers, in colonies, 15.
Lee, Arthur, commissioner at Paris,
302.

Lee, Charles (General): supports
American cause, 209; defends
Charleston, 262; military career,
269; treason, 402. Treason of
Charles Lee, see MOORE.
Lee, Richard Henry, on non-im-
portation agreement, 189.
Legislation: freedom of, in the
colonies, 39; royal veto em-
ployed, 41; influence of com-
mercial classes in, 46; Pitt dis-
tinguishes from taxation, 87.
Leslie, General, 437, 441.
Lexington, battle of, 201.

Libraries in New England,
in New York, destroyed
Howe's troops, 282.

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Lincoln, General,

defender

Charleston, 386.

Liverpool, Lord, 72, footnote.
Livingston, 463, 498.

of

Lloyd, General, chapter on the
American war, cited, 242, foot-
note.

Long Island: fortified by Ameri-

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cans, 248; attacked successfully
by Howe's troops, 249; its loyal-
ty to the Crown, 256.
Loyalists: number of, 222; called
Tories, 256; causes of their im-
potence, 259; hanged as traitors,
384; treatment by their country-
men, 439; abandoned by the
English, 480; view of Washing-
ton and Patriot party, 493;
number and importance in the
Revolution, 493, 494. See SA-
BINE, WILMOT.

Luzerne, French minister to Amer-
ica, 475.

Macpherson, Annals of Commerce,
cited in footnotes, 47, 54, 56, 98.
Malmesbury Papers, cited, 425,
footnote.

on

Mansfield, Lord (Murray):
taxation of non-represented colo-
nies, 64; on desire for a Chat-
ham ministry, 349.

Marie Antoinette, enthusiasm for
American cause, 309.
Marque, letters of, 381.
Maryland: colonial government
of, 8; material and social condi-
tion, 29.

Massachusettensis,' 194, 492.
Massachusetts: prominent in Revo-
lution, 113; addresses sent to
English supporters, cited, 114,
footnote; attitude concerning
the army, 121; passive resist-
ance, 123; further defiance, 154;
charter remodelled, 166; Gra-
hame on the Bill for remodel-
ling, 491, 492; the Act repealed,
343. State Papers, cited, 125,
footnote.

Matthew, General, descent on Vir-
ginia, 381.
Mauduit: favours retention of Can-
ada, 5; agent of Massachusetts,
68. View of the New England
Colonies, cited, 69, footnote.
Mayhew : sermon against the
Stamp Act, 82; political influ-
ence, 172.

Medical school in Philadelphia, 33.
Middle States, account of social
state in 1765, 18.

Miffin, General, 362.

INDEX.

Militia, 7, 56: drilled and improved
in New England, 179; reorgan-
ised in Virginia, 208; Washing-
ton's description of, 271; his
opinion of, 283; drafted by the
States, 285.

Miller, Retrospect of the Eighteenth
Century, cited in footnotes, 31, 33.
Minorca, 457, 466.
Minto, Lady, Life of Sir Gilbert
Elliot, cited in footnotes, 336,
357, 359.

'Minute men,' 179.
Mischianza, the, 358.

Mississippi boundary (1782), 467,
471.

Monmouth, battle of, 359.

Montesquieu, 'Notes upon Eng-
land,' 2.

Montgomery, General, 214.
Moore, Frank, Diary of the Ameri-
can Revolution, cited in foot-
notes, 176, 178, 251, 253, 256.
Moore, George H., Historical Notes
on the Employment of Negroes
in the American Army, cited,
364, footnote. The Treason of
Charles Lee, cited in footnotes,
271, 370, 403.

Morality, American, 34.

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gious fervour, 169; character of
the soldiers, 202, 216, footnote,
227.

New Jersey: miscellaneous popu-
lation, 18; revulsion of feeling
towards Washington, 281.
New London, destruction by Bene-
dict Arnold, 453.
Newport, 399.

Newspapers, 31, 398, 398 footnote.
New York: mixed nationalities of
early population, 18; law and
the judiciary in 1765-7,19; man-
ners, 20, footnote; refusal to obey
the Mutiny Act, 104; Assembly
suspended, 110; submission, 126;
after hesitation joins other colo
nies in revolt, 205; central point
of the Revolution, 248; captured
by Howe, 251; proposals to burn
the town, 251; incendiary fires,
252; Provincial Convention, 255
continued loyalty (1780), 397;
Washington's expedition against,
451. Documents Relating to the
Colonial History of New York,
cited in footnotes, 20, 37, et pas-
sim. History of New York, see

JONES.

Nicholls, Recollections of George
III., cited in footnotes, 115, 338.

Morgan, Colonel, at the battle of Non-importation agreements, 113,

Cowpens, 437.

Mooris, Robert, 268, 276, 460.

Murray, Lindley, 33.

Mutiny Act, 104.

Navigation Act, 9, 42, 44, 60.
Navy, American: first squadron,
266; privateering, 267; roving
commission of Paul Jones, 369,
378.

Necker: opposed to Vergennes's
American policy, 308; proposes
negotiations, 426.

Negroes: treatment in Virginia,
26; in the war, 217, 219, 364.
See MOORE.
Newcastle, 8, 50.

New England: description, 13;
government, 14; lawyers and
litigation, 15; character of peo-
ple, 16 education, 31; trade

135.

Norfolk, burning of, by Dunmore,
217, 236.

North, Lord: Chancellor of Ex-
chequer, 117; retains Towns-
hend's tea duty, 132; tries to
appease America, 198 sqq.; car-
ries on American war against his
own judgment and wishes, 338;
frequently tendered resignation,
339; personal attachment to the
King, 340; Bills of Conciliation
for America, 343 sqq., 494; sends
commission to America, 346.
See GEORGE III.
Novanglus, John Adams's, 488;
denies desire for independence,
492.

Oliver, Lieutenant-Governor of
Massachusetts, 144.

with West Indies, 53 sqq.; reli- | Osgood, Professor H. L., The Colo-

nial Corporation, 487; on revolu-
tionary character of the move-
ment for American independ-
ence, 488, 489.
Oswald, 465.

Otis, James: advocates resistance
to England, 48, 50; advocates
American representation in Par-
liament, 71; leads in agitation,
100; elected Speaker of Massa-
chusetts Assembly, 103; attitude
towards appointment of commis-
sioners of customs, 113; on arm-
ing the inhabitants of Boston,
119; loss of influence, 136. An-
swer to the Halifax Libel, cited,
181, footnote. Life of Otis (Tu-
dor), cited in footnotes, 33, 48, 50,
56, 81, 129, 131, 170, 189, 190.

Paine, Thomas: Common Sense,
234, 309; The Crisis, 493; Rights
of Man, cited, 309, footnote.
Paper money, 16, 54, 278, 379, 394,

422.

Paris, Peace of: French view of,
3 very advantageous to colo-
nies, 10, 50; toleration of Catholi-
cism, 169.

Parker, Admiral, abortive attempt
to capture Charleston, 262.
Parliament: relation of colonies to,
39 899.; first attempt to tax colo-
nies 51 sqq.; competence to do
so, 62; proposed admission of
American representatives, 71, 102,
122; discussion of repeal of Stamp
Act, 94; Townshend's taxation
of America, 108; attitude of
Parliament in 1768-'9, 123; re-
vival of law for trying traitors
in England, 124; coercive meas-
ures, 165, 198; authorises confis-
cation of all American ships,
237; resolves to recognise inde-
pendence of America, 466.
Parliamentary History, cited in
footnotes, 86, 92, et passim.
'Parson's Cause,' the, 28, 486.
Parties in American Revolution,
487, 488.

Parton. See FRANKLIN.

Peace negotiations of 1782, 464
8qq.; references on, 496; Adams

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Percy, Lord, 201.

Philadelphia: Burnaby's descrip-
tion of, in 1759, 22; social habits
and manners, 23, 294, footnote:
first Continental Congress at, in
1774, 180; second Continental
Congress (1775), 205; vicissi-
tudes of war, 277, 280; under
English occupation, 358.
Phillimore, Life of Lyttleton, cited,
112, footnote.

Phillips, General: in command in
Virginia (1781), 448.

Pinkerton, Voyages, cited in foot-
notes, 7, 10, et passim.

Pitt (Lord Chatham): favours reten-
tion of Canada, 5; raises colonial
army, 7; appreciated in America,
10; on smuggling, 47; his policy
reversed by Grenville, 50; justi-
fies Americans, 89; popularity
with them, 99, 104; position on
American question, 159; efforts
for conciliation in 1774 and 1775,
195 sqq.; great speech on concil-
iation in 1777, 341: general de-
sire to place him at the head of
a Ministry, 349 sqq.; refusal of
the King to receive him, 351; last
appearance in the House of
Lords, 354; how regarded by
contemporary statesmen, 355; by
the King, 355; effects of his death
on the Ministry, 357. Corre-
spondence, cited in footnotes, 91,
95, 96, 107, 108, 152, 196, 199,
341, 342, 350, 356. Life of Chat-
ham (Thackeray), cited in foot-
notes, 62, 98, 160.

Population: increase of, in the
colonies, 1, 6; of Boston, 17, foot-
note; of Virginia, 24.
Post-office, 21, 64.

Pownall: advocates legislative

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