Read Washington's General Online
Authors: Terry Golway
      retreat from New York,
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      self-education in,
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-3,
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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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-40,
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as quartermaster general,
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-168,
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-73,
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-84,
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-201,
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-205,
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-15,
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      appointment,
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      battlefield assignments,
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-92,
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-206,
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      commissions on department purchases,
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-99,
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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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20
      businesses of,
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15
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28
      death of,
28
      Quaker values and,
14
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15
-16,
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Greene, Nathanael Ray (son),
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9
,
216
,
221
Greene, Peggy (wife of Jacob) (sister-in-law),
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,
158
Greene, Phoebe (Nathanael Sr,'s first wife),
14
Greene, William (brother),
167
Greene, William (distant relative of Nathanael),
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4
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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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33
-34,
36
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37
      political influence of,
2
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3
,
15
Green Spring, Virginia,
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Grenville, George,
25
Guilford Court House, North Carolina,
250
,
260
-61
      Battle of,
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-60,
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,
276
Gunby, Colonel John,
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,
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269
Gunn, James,
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-12
Hackensack, New Jersey,
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105
Hale, Nathan,
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Halifax, Nova Scotia,
79
Hall, Lyman,
308
Hamilton, Alexander,
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229
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252
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314
Hancock, John,
40
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109
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130
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185
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197
Hannah
(merchant ship),
35
      Battle of,
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-95
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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284
      southern army's camp in the,
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,
290
,
295
Hillsborough, Lord,
36
Hillsborough, North Carolina,
252
,
253
Hobkirk's Hill, South Carolina,
266
,
267
Hoffman family (of Morristown),
118
Horsmanden, Daniel,
16
Howe, Admiral Lord Richard,
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202
Howe, General Robert,
243
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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145
      Philadelphia and,
132
-33,
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,
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150
      replacement by Clinton,
169
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173
Hudson River (North River),
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177
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      American defenses along,
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,
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      strategic importance of,
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,
125
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132
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180
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209
Hudson Valley,
200
-201,
209
,
224
,
228
Huger, Brigadier General Isaac,
250
,
251
Hunter, Banks & Company,
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311
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,
315
Huntmgton, Ebenezer,
105
Huntington, Samuel,
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217
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240
Hutchinson, Thomas,
36
Instructions for Right Spelling and Plain Directions for Reading and Writing True English
(Fox etal.),
20
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Instructions to His Generals
(Frederick the Great),
29
Ireland,
23
Iroquois,
198
Jacob Greene & Company,
171
-73,
204
Jefferson, Thomas,
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Jockey Hollow, New Jersey,
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Johnston, Augustus,
27
Jones, John Paul,
208
Jones, Joseph,
226
Jones, Thomas,
120
Journal, The
(Fox),
21
Kentish Guards,
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-46,
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,
63
,
186
,
287
,
303
Greene as private in,
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-2,
44
-45,
46
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56
,
129
-30
Kiawah Island,
301
Kilpatrick (Continental soldier),
98
Kings Mountain, South Carolina,
235
Kip's Bay,
94
Knowlton, Colonel Thomas,
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Knox, General Henry,
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84
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108
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126
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174
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286
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      in Continental army,
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82
-83,
108
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126
-27,
142
,
300
         at Valley Forge,
159
,
164
      du Coudray appointment and,
129
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130
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131
      friendship with Nathanael,
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,
82
-83,
103
,
144
,
236
,
287
-88,
300
,
313
Knox, Lucy,
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84
,
127
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158
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159
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174
Knyphausen, Baron Wilhelm von,
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,
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-38,
220
-25
Lafayette, marquis de,
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135
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158
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169
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274
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277
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284
      Rhode Island campaign,
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188
      southern campaign and,
245
         in Virginia,
278
-79,
280
,
286
La Luzerne, chevalier de,
271
Lancester, Pennsylvania,
160
,
162
Languedoc
,
188
Lee, Major General Charles,
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5
,
66
,
79
,
175
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176
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227
      Charleston, South Carolina command,
80
,
89
      described,
57
,
61
-62
      Fort Washington and,
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100
-101,
102
-103
      as prisoner of war,
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-106,
122
,
123
,
173
Lee, Fort (earlier named Fort Constitution),
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97
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100
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103
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104
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Lee, Henry (Lighthorse Harry),
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-54,
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271
-72,
273
-74,
275
,
297
      Eutaw Springs, Battle of,
280
,
282
      Guilford Court House, Battle of,
256
,
257
Lee, Richard Henry,
226
,
295
-96,
314
Leslie, General Alexander,
244
,
257
,
299
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301
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302
Lexington and Concord,
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46
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48
Liberty
, HMS,
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Lincoln, General Benjamin,
120
,
292
      southern army under,
5
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9
,
199
,
216
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220
Lindsay, Captain Benjamin,
35
Littlefield, Catherine,
see
Greene, Catherine Littlefield (Caty) (wife)
Livingston, Major William,
90
-91,
126
Locke, John,
22
-23
Long Island, New York:
      Battle of,
91
-92,
137
      Greene as commander of forces on,
2
,
79
,
80
,
86
-92
      Lee's fortification of,
79
,
80
      loyalist civilians,
82
Lott, Abraham and Lott family,
127
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132
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133
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140
,
158
,
192
Lovejoy, David S,,
16
Lovell, James,
155
Luther, Martin,
12
-13
Lynch, Thomas,
69
McDougall, General Alexander,
93
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147
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160
,
165
Mackenzie, Lieutenant Frederick,
284
-85
Maidstone
, HMS,
25
-26
Majoribanks, Major John,
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,
283
Marbury, Captain Joseph,
240
Marion, Francis,
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-70,
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