Washington's General (50 page)
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Authors: Terry Golway
      surrender of American garrison at,
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Charlotte, North Carolina,
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Cheraw Hill, South Carolina,
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Chester County, Pennsylvania,
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Chew, Benjamin,
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Chew House,
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Church, Dr. Benjamin,
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Church of England,
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Civil War, The
(Julius Caesar),
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civil war in the South,
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-78,
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-93
Clinton, General Henry,
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-75,
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-80,
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      Benedict Arnold and,
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      Monmouth, Battle of,
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-77
      replaces Howe,
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      return to New York,
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      war in the South and,
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-209,
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Coffin, Major John,
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Coldstream Guards,
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Commentaries
(Blackstone),
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      Board of War,
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      Continental army and,
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-97,
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-24,
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-58,
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         delegation of powers to Washington,
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         du Coudray appointment,
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         expiring enlistments,
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         military strategy,
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         promotions,
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-23,
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         the quartermaster general and,
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-66,
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-97,
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-205,
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         recruitment,
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         supplying of,
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-97,
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      du Coudray appointment and,
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      end of the war declared by,
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      First Continental Congress,
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      flees Philadelphia,
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      Nathanael Greene and,
see
Greene, Nathanael, Congress and
      taxation powers, lack of,
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Connecticut Farms, New Jersey,
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Constitution, Fort,
see
Lee, Fort (earlier named Fort Constitution) Continental army,
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      anti-elitist attitude of soldiers,
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      black soldiers in,
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-86,
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-98,
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      Congress and,
see
Congress, Continental army and
      creation of, on June
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-75,
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      discipline,
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      expiring enlistments,
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-70,
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-14,
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      express riders,
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      Greene's role in,
see
Greene, Nathanael illnesses affecting,
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-87,
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         army hospitals,
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         dysentery,
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         smallpox,
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      mutiny, on verge of,
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-20,
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      promotion, congressional powers of,
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-23,
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quartermaster general's department and,
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-67,
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-73,
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-94,
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         commissions earned,
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-99,
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see also
Greene, Nathanael, as quartermaster general
      recruitment,
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-70,
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      reorganized army of January
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-76,
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      sectionalism and,
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      southern army,
see
Continental army, southern army
      supplying of,
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-28
         responsibility transferred from Congress to the states,
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         southern campaign,
see
Continental army, southern army
         at Valley Forge,
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-64,
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        Â
see also
Greene, Nathanael, as quartermaster general
      Washington and,
see
Washington, George
      weather conditions and suffering of,
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-61,
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-15
     Â
see also individual battles
Continental army, southern army:
      command changes,
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-39
      differences between southern and northern war,
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      Greene as commander of,
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-11,
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         assignment,
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         civilian government, restoration of,
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         diplomacy,
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         end of southern campaign,
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         logistical challenges,
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         personal leadership, role of,
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         reputation and honors,
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         strategy,
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-42,
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-54,
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-60,
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-64,
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-68,
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-85,
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-96,
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-303
         "war of the posts,"
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      illnesses affecting,
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-90,
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      supplying of,
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-36,
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-41,
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         barter,
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         movement toward Virginia supply centers,
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see also individual battles
Continental dollar, depreciation of,
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Conway, General Thomas,
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      as army's inspector general,
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Cooke, Nicholas,
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-22
Cornwallis, Lord Charles,
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      assessment of Greene,
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      described,
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      Fort Mercer and,
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      Germantown and,
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      Monmouth, Battle of,
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-77
      New Jersey advance,
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-104,
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-15
      Philadelphia's occupation and,
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Cornwallis, Lord Charles (cont'd)
      war in the South and,
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-66,
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-79
         Guilford Court House, Battle of,
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-60,
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         supply lines,
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         Yorktown,
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      winter of
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-77,
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Cowpens, South Carolina,
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-47,
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Crisis, The
(Paine),
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Dan River,
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Dartmouth, Lord,
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Davie, Colonel William,
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-41,
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Declaration of Independence,
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Declaratory Act,
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Deep River,
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Delaware,
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      Clinton's army, crossing by,
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-74
      crossings by Continental troops,
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de Saxe, Maurice,
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d'Estaing, Admiral Charles,
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-92,
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Dorchester, South Carolina,
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Dorchester Heights, Massachusetts,
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Drafter's Letters
, The (Swift),
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du Coudray, Phillippe Tronson,
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-32,
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Dudley, Colonel (Greene aide),
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Dudsington, Lieutenant William,
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East Greenwich, Rhode Island,
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East India Company,
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East River,
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Elizabeth Town, New Jersey,
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Elliott, Jane Reily,
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Emerson, William,
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England,
see
Britain
Essay en Human Understanding
(Locke),
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-23
Eutaw Springs, Battle of,
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-85,
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Falmouth, Maine,
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Ferguson, Patrick,
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First Continental Congress,
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Fitzgerald, Edward,
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forts,
see names of individual forts
Fortune
(merchant vessel),
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-34,
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Fort Watson, South Carolina,
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Fox, Charles James,
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Fox, George,
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      alliance with U,S,,
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         fleet in Newport,
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         Rhode Island campaign,
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         treaty,
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