Read Paul Revere's Ride Online
Authors: David Hackett Fischer
Tags: #General, #Biography & Autobiography, #History, #United States, #Historical, #Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), #Art, #Painting, #Techniques
New England,
403
Sons of Liberty,
403
British regts. carry “colours”
on marches,
385
Flint, William,
320
Fontenoy, battle of,
34
Food, scarcity of, in Boston,
65
,
262
Forbes, Esther,
301
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338
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339
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344
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376
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382
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413
Ford, Pres. Gerald,
342
Fort Ticonderoga,
34
Fort William and Mary, N.H.,
52
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54
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55
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381
Foster, Bos.,
304
Foster, Jacob,
391
Foster, Capt. Samuel,
304
Fowle, Jacob,
328
Fowle, Joshua,
388
Framingham,
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168
–70,
220
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287
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320
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409
Fredericksburg, Va.,
325
Freedom, ideas of, xix,
28
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128
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153
,
163
,
374
hegemonic,
374
natural,
374
ordered,
374
reciprocal,
374
British imperial elites,
33
,
374
“publick liberty.”
384
“English” liberties,
33
iconography of,
72
Freedom Trail, Boston,
343
French, Wilfred,
101
French and Indian War,
62
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114
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150
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154
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165
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224
French Reformed churches,
375
Friedman, Ruth,
424
Fritz, Jean,
339
Frost, Capt. Ephraim,
244
Frost, Samuel,
320
Frothingham, Nathaniel,
304
Frothingham, Richard,
330
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Gage, Sir John of Firle,
378
Gage, Lady Elizabeth,
32
Gage, Margaret Kemble,
31
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divided loyalties,
96
historians and,
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probable American informant,
96
Gage, Gen. Thomas,
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261
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288
ancestry,
32
–33
early life,
33
–34
marriage,
35
wealth,
36
–37
apptd. Royal
governor (Mass.),
379
summers at Hooper mansion,
382
speech,
33
PERSONAL QUALITIES
: honesty,
36
moderation,
37
conservatism,
35
PRINCIPLES OF
: “common rights of mankind.”
31
rule of law,
58
,
64
,
76
,
85
,
265
,
379
hostility to “democracy.”
39
hostility to New England institutions,
39
–40
REPUTATION OF
: condemned as tyrant in America,
162
,
276
condemned for weakness in London,
276
accused of popery and pederasty,
74
COLONIAL UNREST
: Stamp Act,
37
,
38
Boston Massacre,
38
proposes Coercive Acts,
40
–41
380
advice followed by George III and Lord North,
41
proposes mercenaries to control colonies,
381
RETURNS TO BOSTON
: plans Powder Alarm,
48
plans Salem Alarm,
58
mounting tensions in Boston,
65
intelligence activities,
51
and Adm. Graves,
68
CONCORD EXPEDITION
: plans,
78
,
85
,
86
,
186
drafts orders for Concord,
85
expects resistance,
86
betrayal of plans,
97
sends patrol to stop alarm riders,
89
orders followed at Concord,
206
CONCORD EXPEDITION REINFORCEMENT OF:
233
alerts Percy’s 1st Brigade,
411
orders 1st Brigade to march,
233
–34
orders resupply,
243
receives news of fighting from Percy,
244
orders 2d Brigade to Charlestown,
262
reports battles to London,
273
courts public opinion after battle,
277
subsequent career,
290
historians and,
xvii
illus.,
379
Gage, Thomas, of Sherburne,
32
Gage, Sir William,
32
Gage’s Light Armed Infantry,
34
Gagetown, New Brunswick,
36
Gainsborough, Thomas,
120
Galvin, Gen. John,
203
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250
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339
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340
Gammell, John,
304
Gardner, Isaac,
320
Gay, Ebenezer,
311
Gay, Jacob,
162
Gentleman, idea of,
376
George II,
239
George III,
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35
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40
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50
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236
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Georgetown, S.C.,
325
Gergen, David,
373
Gerry, Elbridge,
90
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125
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248
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288
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386
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391
Gettysburg,
298
Gibbings, Lt. Thomas,
323
Gibson, Marjorie Hubbell,
423
Gill, Moses,
304
Gironde estuary (France),
6
Gleason, Capt. Micajeh,
222
Glorious Revolution,
32
Glover, John,
300
Goeselt, Elizabeth Garside,
418
,
424
Goeselt, Laura,
424
Golden Ball Tavern, illus.,
83
Golledge, Robert W.,
423
Golwait, Ebenezer,
320
Goodhue, Timothy,
424
Gooding, Thomas,
302
Goodwin, Lydia Lebaron,
298
Gordon, Cpl.,
407
Gordon, Lt. William,
324
Gore, Samuel,
304
Gould, Harry,
205
Gould, William,
304
Grande peur,
see
Great Fear
Granite Pasture, fight at,
228
Grant, Moses,
304
Grant, Ulysses S.,
334
Graves, Adm. Samuel,
53
,
172
,
264
,
271
,
308
,
310
corruption of,
69
proposes to burn “entire country.”
265
subsequent career,
284
Graves, Lt. Thomas,
310
Gray, Capt. George,
324
Gray, Capt. Wait,
304
Great Fear: France (1789),
165
,
166
,
170
Great Fear, in Mass. towns: Acton,
165
Andover,
167
Boston,
172
Cambridge,
166
Charlestown,
168
Danvers,
172
Framingham,
168
–70
Haverhill,
172
Menotomy,
169
Newbury,
172
Salem,
171
Salisbury,
171
Scituate,
171
South-borough,
168
Sudbury,
172
Sutton,
172
Watertown,
169
Weston,
168
Woburn,
182
Great Migration,
8
Greeley, Captain,
300
Green Dragon Tavern (Boston),
20
,
51
,
52
,
53
,
81
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302
,
376
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378
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381
Green Dragon Tavern (London),
53
Greenleaf, William,
304
Greenough, Newn,
304
Greenwood, Ethan Allen,
198
Grenadiers,
417
Grimshaw, Richard,
407
Gross, Dr. Samuel,
298
Gubbins, Lt. William,
323
Guernsey, Isle of,
6
Guilford, Conn.,
325
Gunpowder,
43
Gunsmiths,
155
Guthrie, Arlo,
342
Hadley, Thomas,
320
Hadley family (Lexington),
320
Haines, Carol,
423
Haldimand, Maj. Gen. Frederic,
239
,
308
Halifax,
287
Hall, Rev. David,
172
Hall, Stephen,
302
Hallowell, Benjamin,
48
Ham, William,
304
Hamilton, Lt. George,
323
,
386
,
402
Hamilton, Lt. Col. Ortho,
308
Hammond, Samuel,
304
Hancock, Eben.,
304
Hancock, John,
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51
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69
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–12,
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304
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376
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386
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illus.,
176
Hancock, John George Washington,
286
Hancock, Lydia (Henchman),
108
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109
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176
illus.,
180
Hancock, Thomas,
180
Hancock-Clarke Parsonage,
91
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108
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110
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143
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176
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248
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390
illus.,
111
Hanson, Robert,
423
Hardy’s Hill,
408
see also
Brooks Hill
Harper, Maureen,
424
Harrington, Daniel,
319
Harrington, David,
125
Harrington, James,
164
Harrington, Jonathan,
156
,
162
,
197
,
286
,
319
Harrington, Jonathan Jr.,
320