of, neglected, 179. Should be few and strong, 186, 187, 220. FOUCHE, DE LA, Captain, VII. 47. Fox, HENRY, one of his Majesty's sec- retaries of state, directs the Virginia colony to pay masters for enlisted ser- vants, II. 168.
France, IV. 396, V. 22, 169. Treaty of, with the United States, 324, 325, 330, 365; communicated to the British ministry, 330, 342, 549. News there- of, and consequent rejoicings in Amer- ica, 353. Proclamation of it, to the army, 355. Anticipated consequences thereof, 357, 359, 387. War with Great Britain inevitable, 365, 366, 376, 400. Change in the ministry of, VII. 324, 339, 429. Colonel Laurens sent to solicit succours from, 340. Fur- nishes a loan, 379, 380. Money and despatches arrive from, in the frigate Astrée, 429. Grants six millions of livres to the United States, VIII. 150, 525. Money solicited from, 224. Six millions of livres loaned by, to the United States, 230, 273. Annunciation of the birth of the Dauphin of, 299. Celebration of the anniversary of the treaty with, 381. On the trade with, IX. 192, 338, 413, 415. Birth of the Dauphin of, noticed in America, 337. Change in the administration of, 466. Death of the Dauphin of, X. 36. The Revolution in; apprehensions for the consequences of it, 38, 39, 46, 89. On the proceedings and government of, 71. Assumes a favorable aspect, in 1790, 90, 106. Excesses in, 118. Part of the American debt to, paid, 194. War with Great Britain; measures taken in the United States to effect neutrality, 336, 337, 342, 533. Con- duct of, toward the United States, XI. 186, 196, 213, 232, 234, 275, 380, 442. The prospect of a war with, 235, 242, 325. Willing to receive a minister from the United States to put an end to difficulties, 403. Mis- sion to, 572. Acceptance of the con- stitution of, by the King; message to Congress respecting Genet, and the relations with; trade suffers from the cruisers and agents of, XII. 73, 94, 96, 117. Desire of a good understanding with the Republic of, 73, 118. Urged to make compensation, 105. Repub- lic of, presents colors to the United States, 110. Ministers to, during Washington's administration, 433. See LAFAYETTE, LOUIS THE SIX- TEENTH, and VERGENNES.
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, draws up the celebrated Plan of Union, adopted by
the Albany convention, II. 18. Aids Braddock, 78, 469. Vote of thanks to, by the Pennsylvania Assembly, 79; 109. On the Proprietaries' conduct, 122. Drafts a bill for a voluntary militia, and superintends the building of forts on the Pennsylvania frontiers, 123. Originates the idea of a General Congress, 396. A proprietor of Wal- pole's Grant; replies to Lord Hillsbo- rough's Report, 485. On total eman- cipation or independence, 496; III. 35. Visits the army on a committee, 123, 133. Letters of, found by Howe and sent to England, 186. Commis- sioner to Canada, 390. His ingenious mode of distributing papers among the Hessian troops, IV. 67. On a
committee to confer with Howe on Staten Island, 88. Commissioner in France; his recommendation of Cenis, V. 32, 447. Cited respecting Count Pulaski, 49. His letter recommend- ing Baron Steuben, 528; VI. 107; 385. Presents Lafayette with the sword voted by Congress, 506, 507. Pur- chases a fifty-gun ship, 543; 551, 552. On the opinions as to Washing- ton's operations, VII. 377. Party against, in Congress; Vergennes's opinion of; solicits and obtains a loan, 379. Letter to, and his reply, after the capitulation of Lord Cornwallis, VIII. 188. Directs a medal to be struck in relation to Burgoyne and Cornwallis, 189. Cited respecting
French officers on their return France, 277. Commended by Count de Vergennes for his conduct in rela- tion to the proposed treaty, 298. Dis- charges Lord Cornwallis from parole, 334. His laconic description of the temper of the British nation, 349. Cited respecting Broglie, 358; 372. His return to America, IX. 131, 149. Reengages in public business, 144, 149, 533. A speech of, published
with alterations, 289. His "Informa- tion for those who would wish to re- move to America," 386. On the can- didate for the presidency, 556. His letter to the President, X. 33. His death, 133, 497; letter from the Na- tional Assembly of France thereupon, 497.
FRANKLIN, WILLIAM, Governor of New Jersey, and others, propose the settlement of a colony on the Ohio, II. 483. Written to, by Brook Wat- son, III. 142. Guarded as a prisoner to Connecticut, 446. Designs to es- cape, 447. Decision of Congress respecting, 448. Requested to give
publicity to a declaration by Howe, IV. 3. Confined in Litchfield jail, V. 6. His request to see his wife, denied, 7. President of the Board of Directors of the Associated Loyalists, VIII. 218, 337.
FRANKS, DAVID S., Colonel, aid to Ar- nold, ignorant of Arnold's treasonable designs, VII. 217, 220, 533. His trial and acquittal, 267.
FRAUNCIS, SAMUEL, XII. 273. FRAZIER, GEORGE, Lieutenant, absent at the time of Ensign Ward's capitu- lation, II. 7. Court-martial ordered respecting, 46. His conduct excusa- ble, 47. Recommended for promo- tion, 62.
Frederic, Fort, built, II. 166. Com- manded by Captain Beale, 243. Un- advisable place of rendezvous in Forbes's expedition, 277. British prisoners at, VI. 205.
Frederic County, Virginia, address to the citizens of, XII. 213. Fredericktown, Washington's reception at, IX. 118.
FREEMAN, THOMAS, superintendent of Washington's affairs on the Western waters, directions to, XII. 275. Free-masonry, XI. 314, 337. Free-masons, address to King David's Lodge, at Newport, XII. 190; to the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, 200. FRELINGHUYSEN, FREDERIC, Colonel, VII. 381; 561.
FRENCH, CHRISTOPHER, a British offi- cer on parole, III. 105-108, 131, IV. 33. Exchange of, proposed for Major Meigs, 52.
French army, arrives at Newport; numbers of the, VII. 113. Disposi- tion of, for the winter, 319. De- tachment from, against Arnold, 426. Its junction with the American ar- my, with a view to an attack on New York, VIII. 48, 50, 63-74, 81 86. Reinforced by an arrival at Bos- ton, 74, 82. Movements of, towards the south, 130, 134, 139, 140. Recep- tion of, at Philadelphia, 154. Pro- gress of, to Virginia, 155, 161. It arrives before Yorktown, 168, 516. Remains in Virginia through the winter of 1781-2, 198. Its junc- tion with the American army on the North River, 332, 340, 345. Ordered to Boston, and sails to the West In- dies, 365, 367.
French fleet under Count d'Estaing, arrival of, from Toulon, with Gerard, V. 437, 439, 440, VI. 1-6. Brings French troops, 7. Various circum- stances injuring the operation of the,
35. Under Ternay; equipment of, at Brest, VII. 32, 33, 493, 500. Measures and plans preparatory to its arrival on the coast, 32-51, 59, 71, 73, 80, 105 - 108. Compared with the English, 59, 113, 127. Its arrival at Newport, 107 - 113, 137, 500, 505. Plans and pro- ceedings for coöperating with, and with the French army, 107-109, 113, 114, 120, 135, 136. Blockaded at Newport, 131, 196, 239, 290. Conti- nental frigates to join the, 145. Sails for the Chesapeake, 447, 449, 457. To remain at Newport after Rocham- beau's departure, VIII. 64, 65. Sails from Boston for the West Indies, 367. See BARRAS, ESTAING, GRASSE, Or- derly Book, ROCHAMBEAU, and TER-
French fleet, second division, expected, VII. 131, 135, 136, 143, 146, 148, 154. Blockaded at Brest, 176, 178, 182, 196, 319. Never comes to America, 319, 520.
French officers, how to be provided for, IV. 146. Difficulty of employing, in the service, 328, 446, 450. Decis- ions of Congress respecting, 329, 452. Embarrassments from, VI. 33. Their differences with the American offi- cers, 37, 47, 58. See DUCOUDRAY, Foreign officers, and MALMEDY. Frenchmen, an attempt to raise a corps of, IV. 327. See ARMAND. FRESTEL, FELIX, tutor to George Washington Lafayette, arrives with him in America, X1. 64, 96. Invited to Philadelphia, 118. Goes to Mount Vernon, 197, 208. His care of his protégé; sails for France, 215, 223. Frigates, Continental, employment of, in 1780, VII. 145, 154. See Vessels. Frog's Point, the enemy land at, IV. 151, 154. British troops embark at, VII. 131, 137.
FRY, JOSHUA, appointed to command the expedition to the Ohio, in 1754, II. 4. Death of; facts respecting, 27. Virginia commissioner at the Logs- town treaty, in 1752, 480. FRYE, JOSEPH, appointed brigadier- general, III. 73, 310, 319. His resig- nation, 329, 389.
Fuel, scarcity of, in the American camp; a committee appointed by the Massachusetts General Court respect- ing, III. 164, 165. Want of, in Boston, 186. Howe's order respecting, 187. Fur trade, queries concerning, IX. 302, 327. Two vessels fitted out to the Northwest Coast for the, X. 91. Furloughs, suggestions respecting de- fects in, VII. 396, 397.
GAGE, THOMAS, Lieutenant-Colonel in Braddock's expedition, commands the advanced party at his defeat, and is wounded, II. 82, 470, 471. His letter to Washington, in 1755, 116. His
conduct and proclamation at Boston, in 1774, 393. Disconcerted at the quiet and steady conduct of the colo- nists, 399. His official return of the loss at Bunker's Hill; extracts from his correspondence with Lord Dart- mouth, III. 25, 113, 506, 511. His official report of the affair at Concord and Lexington reaches England, and is replied to, 35, 512. Dismisses Hancock from the command of the Boston Cadets; further remarks in connexion with his proclamations, 37, 507, 509, 510. Correspondence with the
American Commander-in-chief about the treatment of prisoners; his reason for not penetrating the coun- try, 59, 65, 67, 127, 500. Writes to Lord Dartmouth about taking posses- sion of New York and Rhode Island, 113, 513. Is recalled, 113, 118, 511. GALLOWAY, JOSEPH, IV. 205, 522. Galphinston, treaty at, in 1785, XII. 86.
GALVAN, Major, VI. 457. Despatched to Cape Henry in anticipation of the arrival of the French fleet, VII. 35, 36, 41. Sent to Virginia; conse- quences thereof, 454, 471, VIII. 23, 26.
GALVEZ, DON Bernardo de, General, governor of Louisiana, captures the British forts at Natchez and Baton Rouge, VI. 476, 478. His offer to concert operations against the com- mon enemy, VIII. 176.
GAMBLE, Captain, letters of, intercept- ed, III. 113. Captured, 245. State- ment of, respecting the ill usage of American prisoners, IV. 274; Lord Howe's reply thereupon, 552. Gaming in the camp condemned, II. 130, 132, 141, III. 296, IV. 436, VIII. 374.
GANNO, JOHN, officiates on occasion of the proclamation of the cessation of hostilities, VIII. 425. GANSEVOORT, PETER, VII. 284. Gardiner's Bay, British fleet blockad- ing Newport, sustains damage there, VII. 403.
GARDOQUI, DON DIEGO, Chargé d'af
faires from Spain, IX. 215; X. 73. His return to Spain, 74. GARTH, a British general, his expedi- tion to New Haven, VI. 291. GATE ORATIO, a captain in Brad- dock's expedition, II. 469. Appoint- ed adjutant-general; arrives in Cam- bridge; facts respecting, III. 6, 7, 481. Sent to Congress on affairs pertaining to Canada; appointed major-general, 394, 395. Ordered to Canada; in- structions to, 433, 435. Popularity of, in Congress, 436. His misunder- standing with Schuyler about com- mand, 462. Supersedes Sullivan, IV. 4. Cited respecting the evacuation of Crown Point, sickness in the ar- my, fitting out the fleet on the Lake; animadverts on officers, 12. Mis- take of, corrected, 47. Joins the main army, on the Delaware, 241. Urged to become adjutant-general, 355. Or- dered to Ticonderoga, 356. Returns to Philadelphia, V. 7. Recommended by the New England delegates in Congress; takes command of the Northern Department, 14, 16, 23, 37. His conduct about sending Morgan to the main army, 74. Favorable pros- pects of, in relation to Burgoyne, 74 - 76. Despatches Wilkinson to Con- gress, 114. To aid the main army, 121-125, 127. His communication to Washington of the capture of Bur- goyne, 125. To secure the North River, 178. Chosen member of the new Board of War, 194, 213. Pro- jects an expedition into Canada under Lafayette, 228, 530. Ordered to re- sume the command of the Northern Department; is invested with exten- sive powers, 333, 334, 338; to call at camp for consultation in regard to the campaign, 338, 345, 360; to re- tain all the eastern recruits on the North River, 374, 381. Wants rein- forcements, 385, 386. See Conway's Cabal. Transmits letters about sus- pected persons in Vermont, VI. 7, 8. Marches to Danbury, 61; 87. Goes to Boston, 95, 106. Declines the command of the western expedition against the Indians, 189. Takes com- mand at Providence, 189, 190, 274. Cited in regard to the Canada ex- pedition and his unfriendly feelings towards Washington; remarks there- on and treatment of, by Congress, 214-224. His proposition to attack New York, 273. Directions to, upon Estaing's return from the West In- dies, 369. Cited respecting the evac- uation of Newport, 388. To march
to Peekskill or King's Ferry, 395, 400. Ordered to halt at Danbury, 401. Declines the command at West Point and goes to Virginia, 409. Ap- pointed to the command in the South- ern Department, VII. 72. Defeated near Camden, 185, 186, 189, 191, 197, 201, 205, 237, 555. Court of inquiry ordered respecting, 258, 259, 271. Retires to Berkeley County in Vir- ginia, 275. Delay and final omission of a decision respecting, VIII. 69, 331. On his rejoining the army, 330. Presides at a meeting occasioned by the Newburg Addresses, 560, 565. Visits the Maryland Assembly re- specting the western internal naviga- tion, IX. 82.
Genealogy of the Washington family, 1.552.
General Orders. See Orderly Book. GENET, minister of the French Repub- lic, his proceedings in regard to the Little Sarah, X. 355, 536. Proceed- ings in relation to, 360, 368, 387. His recall, 400, 548. Conduct of, con- demned by Fauchet, 401. The first mover of the Democratic Societies, 430, 438, 440. Message to Congress respecting, XII. 96.
Genera, on the transplanting of the university of, to the United States, XI. 1, 19, 473.
George, Fort, III. 43. Threatened, IV. 492. Propriety of its evacuation con- sidered, and approved, 494, 504. Ca- pitulation of, VII. 269.'
George, Lake, fort at, finished, II. 117. GEORGE THE THIRD, his proclamation; proceedings of Congress thereupon, III. 204. His speech sent out from Boston; its consequences, 223 – 225. His address to Parliament respecting the French treaty, V. 363, 400. Ex- tracts from his letters to Lord North in relation to the American war, VI. 531. Warlike character of his speech at the opening of Parliament, VIII. 243, 254, 294. Character of his pro- roguing speech, 344. Effects of the order of, respecting neutral vessels, X. 406, 408. See British Ministry, and Great Britain. Georgetown, surprised by Lieutenant- Colonel Lee, VII. 439. British treaty disapproved at, XII. 213. Georgia, accedes to the measures of Congress, III. 55. Project of Con- gress for recovering, VI. 179. defenceless condition; measures for its security, 411. Land relinquished to, by the Creek Indians, XII. 86.
Address to the General Assembly of, 179. Extract from their address exposed and embarrassed situation of, 180. Slaves of, cross the Spanish line, 181. Address to Edward Tel- fair, governor of, 199. Soil and cli- mate of, 325. Chief magistrates of, 416. Members of the Continental Congress from, 425; and during Wash- ington's administration, 432. GERARD, Minister Plenipotentiary from France to the United States, V. 440, VI. 9, 16. Discourages the applica- tions of French officers, 33 Made acquainted with the protest to Es- taing, 46. Interprets the French treaty as to the proposed expedition against Georgia, 179-181; 228. His visit to head-quarters, 229, 239, 249, 259. His opinion of Washington, 241, 259. On the effects of Spain's declaration of war, 341. His visit to the camp before his departure, 347, 378, 383. His return to France, 347, 348, 383, 469. His agency in forming the French treaty, 348. Cited re specting the election of Adams and Jay as ministers to Europe, 385. His opinion of Lafayette, 506.
GERMAIN, GEORGE, Lord, cited respect- ing trying General Lee as a deserter, and expected assistance from the Pro- vincials, IV. 276, 277; respecting the loyalists, 520. Justifies in Parlia- ment the employment of Indians, V. 275. On the conciliatory propositions, 341, 551. His instructions to General Clinton, 548. Cited, about harassing the seacoast, VI. 207; on the in- gratitude of the Americans, 258; on Tryon's expedition into Connecticut, 293; on bringing the American war to a conclusion, 327; on the meeting of the commissioners at Amboy for exchange of prisoners, 513; on the condition of affairs in America in May, 1780, VII. 30. Writes about the destination of the French arma- ment at Brest, 33. Extracts from his intercepted letters to Sir Henry Clin- ton, VIII. 112, 519. German Flats, treaty with the Six Na- tions and other Indians at, IV. 62. Stores removed to, from Fort Schuy- ler, VIII. 56. See Herkimer. German Lutheran Congregation in and near Philadelphia, address to the min- isters, church-wardens, and vestry- men of the, XII. 147. German Reformed Congregations, ad- dress to the ministers and elders of the, XII. 156.
German troops, III. 389. Resolve of Congress for raising, in Pennsylvania and Maryland, III. 444. See Hessians. Germanic Confederacy, abstract of the, IX. 533.
Germantown, battle at, V. 78, 82, 102, 118, 463. Loss at, 82, 83, 90, 103. Letter of approbation and thanks from Congress thereupon, 83, 470. Germany, the Emperor of, written to about Lafayette, XI. 125, 128. Meas- ures for procuring laborers from, for the Federal District, XII. 305. GERRY, ELBRIDGE, III. 20, 463. Cited respecting the choice of a commander- in-chief, 479. Deciphers Church's letter and sends it to Congress, 504. Cited, IV. 117; VI. 455; VIII. 569. Declines signing the Constitution, IX. 270, 541. Appointed minister to the French Republic, XI. 203, 208; 325. GETCHELL, NEHEMIAH, reconnoitres on the Kennebec and Dead Rivers, and reports, III. 112.
GIBBONS, Lieutenant, commands a for- lorn hope, at Stony Point, VI. 303, 539.
GIBBS, CALEB, Major, the case of, in connexion with the Provisional army, XI. 410, 420.
GIBSON, Colonel, VI. 205, X. 184. GILL, MOSES, on a committee of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress for the reception of the Commander-in- chief, III. 484.
GIMAT, Chevalier, V. 171. Detached to the south, VII. 454, 471, VIII. 23, 26. Leads the van in the attack on a redoubt at Yorktown, 179. His return to France, 224.
GINNINGS, Sergeant, to be promoted for his bravery in Meigs's expedition, IV. 441.
GIST, CHRISTOPHER, cited about a re- quest of an Indian to know where the Indians' land lay, II. 15; respecting the Twigtwee Indians, 37. Council of war at the house of, decides upon a retreat, 51, 456. Goes agent to Phila- delphia, 108. His remarks on the estimation of Washington in Penn- sylvania, 109. His qualifications, and appointment to manage Indian affairs, and his embarrassments, 236, 251, 269, 282-284. Attends Washington to the Ohio, in 1753, 432. The remnant of Braddock's army reaches the plan- tation of, 476. His agency for the Ohio Company, 479, 482. At the Logstown Treaty, 480. His settle- ment beyond the Alleganies, 482. GIST, NATHANIEL, Colonel, receives instructions, IV. 271. Is directed to
raise a body of five hundred Indians, 272. Bringing forward Maryland mi- litia, V. 52, 61, 66. Skirmishes with the enemy near Chesnut Hill, 181. Sent to enlist Indians, 274. Informs the Commander-in-chief of the arrival of Count de Grasse, VIII. 154. De- tached against the British at Com- bahee River, 357.
Gloucester, troops stationed near, VIII. 168. Surrender of, 182. See Yorktown. GLOVER, JOHN, Colonel, commands a regiment at Boston, III. 456. Ap- pointed brigadier-general, IV. 329. Declines the appointment, 399. Ac- cepts it, 400. To reinforce Schuyler, 503; V. 163, 167. Detached to join Sullivan in Rhode Island, VI. 8, 11, 190, 286. To coöperate with the mili- tia, 286; 305. To superintend the for- warding of the Massachusetts drafts, VII. 83; 336.
GODDARD, WILLIAM, publishes "Que- ries," by General Lee, and afterwards a recantation, VI. 309. Proposes to publish the manuscript papers of Lee, IX. 108.
GOODWIN, SAMUEL, a surveyor, assists Arnold by plans and a journal, III. 90. GORDON, JAMES, a British major, an attendant on Captain Asgill, VIII. 303, IX. 170, 196.
GORDON, WILLIAM, the historian, his account of a conversation between Franklin and Pratt respecting inde- pendence, II. 496. In error respect- ing advance pay for riflemen, III. 101. On the Commander-in-chief's conduct at the flight of the troops from New York, IV. 95. Mistake of, respecting Lafayette's orders at York- town, VIII. 180. His application for papers for a history of the revolution, IX. 29. Information sent to, respect- ing Fort Washington, 100. Memoir of Lafayette transmitted to, 121. His publication of his "History of the Revolution," 295, 467.
GORDON, a British brigadier-general, wantonly shot by an American scout, IV. 56, 59.
GORE, CHRISTOPHER, XI. 130. GORHAM, NATHANIEL, president of Congress, XII. 420.
GOUVION, from France, appointed ma- jor of engineers, IV. 491. Commend- ed; measures for retaining, in the ser- vice, VI. 430. To repair to the main army, VII. 26; 204. Accompanies the Commander-in-chief to Hartford, 208. Despatched to arrest Joshua H. Smith, 214. To join Greene at West Point, 233. Required at head-quar-
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