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.
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,
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
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,
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,
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-
Lansdowne, Papers, cited, 373, foot-
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.
Charleston, 386.
Liverpool, Lord, 72, footnote. Livingston, 463, 498.
Lloyd, General, chapter on the American war, cited, 242, foot- note.
Long Island: fortified by Ameri-
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.
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.
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.
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
Nicholls, Recollections of George III., cited in footnotes, 115, 338.
Morgan, Colonel, at the battle of Non-importation agreements, 113,
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
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,
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
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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