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      retreat from New York,
92
-93

      self-education in,
2
-3,
29
,
50
,
122
,
303

      Trenton,
111
-12

monument,
315

national government, as proponent of strong,
50
,
215
,
308
,
314

as optimist,
134
,
139
,
153
,
227
,
259

as patriot and revolutionary,
2
,
37
,
42
,
44
,
45
,
52
-53,
67
-68,
73
,
82
,
287

portrait of, iv

Quaker background,
1
,
3
,
14
,
15
-16,
19
,
20
-21,
22
,
28
,
29
,
38
-40,
135
,
197
,
260
-61,
303

as quartermaster general,
4
,
164
-168,
170
-73,
174
,
183
-84,
192
-201,
204
-205,
209
-15,
219

      appointment,
164
-68

      battlefield assignments,
176
-77,
184
-92,
192
,
205
-206,
221
,
222
-25

      commissions on department purchases,
167
,
193
,
198
-99,
203
,
204

      conflicts of interest,
171
-73,
204

      lack of recognition,
165
,
167
-68,
178
,
179
,
286

      resignation,
178
-79,
182
,
199
,
211
,
215
-16,
217
,
225
-26,
291

George Washington and,
see
Washington-Greene relationship

will of,
315

Greene, Nathanael, Sr. (father),
12
,
20

      businesses of,
14
,
15
,
28

      death of,
28

      Quaker values and,
14
,
15
-16,
303

Greene, Nathanael Ray (son),
5
,
9
,
216
,
221

Greene, Peggy (wife of Jacob) (sister-in-law),
53
,
158

Greene, Phoebe (Nathanael Sr,'s first wife),
14

Greene, Rufus,
33
-34,
38

Greene, William (brother),
167

Greene, William (distant relative of Nathanael),
42
,
4
,
3

Greene, William (governor of Rhode Island),
220

Greene family,
14
-15

      business interests,
14
-15,
28
,
29
,
30
,
33
-34,
36
,
37

      political influence of,
2
,
3
,
15

Greene v. Dudsington
,
34
,
36
,
37

Green Spring, Virginia,
279

Grenville, George,
25

Guilford Court House, North Carolina,
250
,
260
-61

      Battle of,
255
-60,
265
,
276

Gunby, Colonel John,
267
,
268
,
269

Gunn, James,
311
-12

Hackensack, New Jersey,
104
,
105

Hale, Nathan,
96

Halifax, Nova Scotia,
79

Hall, Lyman,
308

Hamilton, Alexander,
5
,
117
,
140
,
175
,
229
,
252
,
314

Hancock, John,
40
,
97
,
109
,
130
,
185
,
197

Hannah
(merchant ship),
35

Harlem Heights,
93
,
96
,
98

      Battle of,
94
-95

Harrison, Benjamin,
69

Heath, General William,
65
-66

Hessian mercenaries,
85
,
107
,
110
-12,
119
,
120
,
150
,
177
,
191
,
192
,
200
,
209
,
220
,
221
,
222
,
224
,
257

High Hills of the Santee,
232
,
284

      southern army's camp in the,
275
,
277
,
279
,
290
,
295

Hillsborough, Lord,
36

Hillsborough, North Carolina,
252
,
253

Hobkirk's Hill, South Carolina,
266
,
267

Hoffman family (of Morristown),
118

Hopkins, Stephen,
15
,
17
,
26

Horsmanden, Daniel,
16

Howe, Admiral Lord Richard,
85
,
202

Howe, General Robert,
243

Howe, General William,
52
,
55
,
65
,
70
,
75
,
99
,
114
,
119
,
134
,
202

      Brandywine and,
137
-39

      Fort Washington and,
101

      Germantown and,
144
,
145

      Philadelphia and,
132
-33,
142
,
149
,
150

      replacement by Clinton,
169
,
173

Hudson River (North River),
93
,
94
,
99
,
104
,
177
,
179
,
200
,
221
,
222

      American defenses along,
127
,
194
,
201

      strategic importance of,
77
,
125
,
132
,
180
,
209

Hudson Valley,
200
-201,
209
,
224
,
228

Huger, Brigadier General Isaac,
250
,
251

Hunter, Banks & Company,
309
,
311
,
312
,
313
,
315

Huntmgton, Ebenezer,
105

Huntington, Samuel,
215
,
217
,
240

Hutchinson, Thomas,
36

impressment,
25
-
26

Indians, American,
198
,
310
,
311

Instructions for Right Spelling and Plain Directions for Reading and Writing True English
(Fox etal.),
20
-21

Instructions to His Generals
(Frederick the Great),
29

Intolerable Acts,
41
,
42

Ireland,
23

Iroquois,
198

Jacob Greene & Company,
171
-73,
204

Jefferson, Thomas,
67
,
236
,
239
,
244
,
254
,
255
,
265

Jockey Hollow, New Jersey,
209
,
210
,
211
,
213

Johnston, Augustus,
27

Jones, John Paul,
208

Jones, Joseph,
226

Jones, Thomas,
120

Journal, The
(Fox),
21

Kentish Guards,
44
-46,
58
,
63
,
186
,
287
,
303

Greene as private in,
1
-2,
44
-45,
46
,
56
,
129
-30

Kiawah Island,
301

Kilpatrick (Continental soldier),
98

Kings Mountain, South Carolina,
235

Kip's Bay,
94

Knowlton, Colonel Thomas,
94
-95

Knox, General Henry,
8
,
42
,
67
,
75
,
84
,
108
,
126
,
142
,
155
,
174
,
286
,
314
,
315

      in Continental army,
75
,
82
-83,
108
,
126
-27,
142
,
300

         at Valley Forge,
159
,
164

      du Coudray appointment and,
129
,
130
,
131

      friendship with Nathanael,
42
,
82
-83,
103
,
144
,
236
,
287
-88,
300
,
313

Knox, Lucy,
82
,
83
,
84
,
127
,
158
,
159
,
174

Knyphausen, Baron Wilhelm von,
3
,
137
-38,
220
-25

Kosciuszko, Thaddeus,
236
,
274

Lafayette, marquis de,
8
,
135
,
139
,
158
,
169
,
176
,
190
,
274
,
277
,
284

      Rhode Island campaign,
185
,
188

      southern campaign and,
245

         in Virginia,
278
-79,
280
,
286

La Luzerne, chevalier de,
271

Lancester, Pennsylvania,
160
,
162

Languedoc
,
188

Laurens, Henry,
157
,
171
,
226

Laurens, John,
297
,
298

Lee, Major General Charles,
57
,
6
,
5
,
66
,
79
,
175
,
176
,
227

      Charleston, South Carolina command,
80
,
89

      described,
57
,
61
-62

      Fort Washington and,
99
,
100
-101,
102
-103

      as prisoner of war,
105
-106,
122
,
123
,
173

Lee, Fort (earlier named Fort Constitution),
95
,
97
,
100
,
103
,
104
,
117

Lee, Henry (Lighthorse Harry),
233
,
238
,
253
-54,
261
,
266
,
269
,
270
,
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
,
301
,
302

Lexington and Concord,
45
,
46
,
48

Liberty
, HMS,
32
-33

Lincoln, General Benjamin,
120
,
292

      southern army under,
5
,
9
,
199
,
216
,
220

Lindsay, Captain Benjamin,
35

Littlefield, Catherine,
see
Greene, Catherine Littlefield (Caty) (wife)

Littlefield, Simon,
21
o',
218

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
,
132
,
133
,
140
,
158
,
192

Lovejoy, David S,,
16

Lovell, James,
155

Lucken's Mill,
146
,
147

Luther, Martin,
12
-13

Lynch, Thomas,
69

McDougall, General Alexander,
93
,
147
,
160
,
165

Mackenzie, Lieutenant Frederick,
284
-85

Magaw, Colonel Robert,
100
,
101

Maidstone
, HMS,
25
-26

Majoribanks, Major John,
282
,
283

Marbury, Captain Joseph,
240

Marchant, Henry,
35
,
138
-39

Marion, Francis,
233
,
237
,
239
,
264
,
266
,
269
-70,
271
,
274
,
275
,
280
,
281
,
287

Martin, Alexander,
292
,
293

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