Washington's General (52 page)
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Authors: Terry Golway
      retreat from New York,
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      self-education in,
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      Trenton,
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monument,
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national government, as proponent of strong,
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as optimist,
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as patriot and revolutionary,
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portrait of, iv
Quaker background,
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as quartermaster general,
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-73,
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-84,
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-201,
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      appointment,
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      battlefield assignments,
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      commissions on department purchases,
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      conflicts of interest,
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-73,
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      lack of recognition,
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-68,
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      resignation,
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-79,
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-16,
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-26,
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George Washington and,
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Washington-Greene relationship
will of,
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Greene, Nathanael, Sr. (father),
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      businesses of,
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      death of,
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      Quaker values and,
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Greene, Nathanael Ray (son),
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Greene, Peggy (wife of Jacob) (sister-in-law),
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Greene, Phoebe (Nathanael Sr,'s first wife),
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Greene, William (brother),
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Greene, William (distant relative of Nathanael),
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3
Greene, William (governor of Rhode Island),
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Greene family,
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      business interests,
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-15,
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      political influence of,
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Green Spring, Virginia,
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Grenville, George,
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Guilford Court House, North Carolina,
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,
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      Battle of,
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-60,
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,
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Gunby, Colonel John,
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Gunn, James,
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Hackensack, New Jersey,
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Hale, Nathan,
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Halifax, Nova Scotia,
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Hall, Lyman,
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Hamilton, Alexander,
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Hancock, John,
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Hannah
(merchant ship),
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      Battle of,
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Harrison, Benjamin,
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Heath, General William,
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Hessian mercenaries,
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-12,
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High Hills of the Santee,
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      southern army's camp in the,
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Hillsborough, Lord,
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Hillsborough, North Carolina,
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Hobkirk's Hill, South Carolina,
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Hoffman family (of Morristown),
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Horsmanden, Daniel,
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Howe, Admiral Lord Richard,
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Howe, General Robert,
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Howe, General William,
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      Brandywine and,
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      Fort Washington and,
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      Germantown and,
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      Philadelphia and,
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-33,
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      replacement by Clinton,
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Hudson River (North River),
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      American defenses along,
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      strategic importance of,
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Hudson Valley,
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Huger, Brigadier General Isaac,
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Hunter, Banks & Company,
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Huntmgton, Ebenezer,
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Huntington, Samuel,
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Hutchinson, Thomas,
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Instructions for Right Spelling and Plain Directions for Reading and Writing True English
(Fox etal.),
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Instructions to His Generals
(Frederick the Great),
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Ireland,
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Iroquois,
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Jacob Greene & Company,
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Jefferson, Thomas,
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Jockey Hollow, New Jersey,
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Johnston, Augustus,
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Jones, John Paul,
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Jones, Joseph,
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Jones, Thomas,
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Journal, The
(Fox),
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Kentish Guards,
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Greene as private in,
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Kiawah Island,
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Kilpatrick (Continental soldier),
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Kings Mountain, South Carolina,
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Kip's Bay,
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Knowlton, Colonel Thomas,
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Knox, General Henry,
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      in Continental army,
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-27,
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         at Valley Forge,
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      du Coudray appointment and,
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      friendship with Nathanael,
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-83,
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-88,
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Knox, Lucy,
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Knyphausen, Baron Wilhelm von,
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Lafayette, marquis de,
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      Rhode Island campaign,
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      southern campaign and,
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         in Virginia,
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La Luzerne, chevalier de,
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Lancester, Pennsylvania,
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Languedoc
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Lee, Major General Charles,
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      Charleston, South Carolina command,
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      described,
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      Fort Washington and,
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      as prisoner of war,
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Lee, Fort (earlier named Fort Constitution),
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Lee, Henry (Lighthorse Harry),
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      Eutaw Springs, Battle of,
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      Guilford Court House, Battle of,
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Lee, Richard Henry,
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Leslie, General Alexander,
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Lexington and Concord,
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Liberty
, HMS,
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Lincoln, General Benjamin,
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      southern army under,
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Lindsay, Captain Benjamin,
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Littlefield, Catherine,
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Greene, Catherine Littlefield (Caty) (wife)
Livingston, Major William,
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Locke, John,
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Long Island, New York:
      Battle of,
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-92,
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      Greene as commander of forces on,
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      Lee's fortification of,
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      loyalist civilians,
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Lott, Abraham and Lott family,
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Lovejoy, David S,,
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Lovell, James,
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Luther, Martin,
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Lynch, Thomas,
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McDougall, General Alexander,
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Mackenzie, Lieutenant Frederick,
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Maidstone
, HMS,
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Majoribanks, Major John,
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Marbury, Captain Joseph,
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Marion, Francis,
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