.
Dinwiddie,
governor of Virginia,
.
Doak,
Rev. Samuel, invokes a blessing before the march to King's Mountain,
.
Dragoons,
the defeat of the red,
. See
.
Du Loup River,
the, Arnold's men cross,
.
Dunmore,
Lord, driven from Virginia,
.
E
Ellsworth,
Oliver, at the Philadelphia convention,
.
Enos,
Colonel,
,
.
deserts Arnold,
.
Enterprise,
the, fights a Tripolitan man-of-war,
.
Experiment,
the, a British man-of-war,
.
F
Farragut,
Admiral,
.
Federalist,
the,
.
Federalists,
the,
.
Ferguson,
Colonel, character of,
.
enlists Tories and raids the Carolinas,
.
threatens the backwoodsmen,
.
the rally of the backwoodsmen to attack,
.
retreats before the backwoodsmen,
.
makes a stand at King's Mountain,
.
defeated at King's Mountain,
.
the death of, at King's Mountain,
.
Fish,
Nicholas, with Lafayette at Yorktown,
.
Fiske,
John, the historian,
,
.
Fort Detroit,
Hamilton's headquarters,
,
. See the map in
.
Fort Pitt,
5. See the map in
.
Fort Sullivan,
the defense of,
.
built of palmetto logs,
.
the mounting of cannon in,
.
visited by General Lee,
.
Lee advises the surrender of,
,
.
the British plan of attack on,
.
the attack on,
.
the repulse of the British attack on,
.
the moral effect of the defense of,
.
Fort Sumter,
.
France,
the king of, promises us aid,
.
Franklin and Holston
settlements, now Tennessee,
.
Franklin, Benjamin,
at the Philadelphia convention,
.
work of, in framing the Constitution,
,
.
the witty remark of, about the Constitution,
.
a quotation from the almanac of,
.
aids Lafayette,
.
Frederick the Great
of Prussia, friendly to us,
.
Freeman's Farm,
Burgoyne defeated at,
.
French Canadians,
the, help Arnold,
.
French fleet,
the, under De Grasse,
. See
.
French villages,
the, north of the Ohio River,
,
,
.
G
Gates,
General, the statue of, at Saratoga,
.
sent to take command in the South,
.
defeated at Camden, South Carolina,
.
the character of,
,
.
George,
King, receives word of Cornwallis's surrender,
.
Georgia,
overrun by the British,
.
protests against abolishing slavery,
.
Germantown,
Pennsylvania, Wayne at,
.
Gerry,
Elbridge, at the Philadelphia convention,
.
Gibault,
Father, aids Clark,
.
Gibbs,
General, leads the British at New Orleans,
.
severely wounded,
.
Gibraltar,
Dacres gives Hull a dinner at,
.
Gibraltar of America,
the, Quebec,
,
.
the little, Stony Point,
,
.
Gilmer,
Enoch, spies out Ferguson,
.
Gladstone,
William Ewart, how the Constitution was regarded by,
.
Gloucester,
Virginia, Cornwallis plans to escape by way of,
.
Graves,
Admiral, forced to withdraw from Chesapeake Bay,
.
Greene,
Nathanael,
.
Washington's right-hand man,
.
the ability of,
.
left the army for a time,
.
defeated at Guilford, North Carolina,
.
the death of,
.
Grier,
Sergeant, and his wife, with Arnold's expedition to Quebec,
,
.
Guerrière,
the, a British frigate, destroyed by "Old Ironsides,"
.
Guilford,
North Carolina, Lord Cornwallis defeats Greene at,
.
H
Hale,
Nathan, the patriot spy,
.
volunteers to serve as a spy,
.
receives his instructions from Washington,
.
the parentage and the home of,
.
the boyhood of,
.
the education of,
.
teaches school in New London, Connecticut,
.
bids his pupils farewell,
.
starts for Cambridge,
.
the diary of,
.
disguises himself,
.
returns in safety from the British lines, but puts up at "Mother Chick's,"