147
.


Dinwiddie,
governor of Virginia,
109
.


Doak,
Rev. Samuel, invokes a blessing before the march to King's Mountain,
96
.


Dragoons,
the defeat of the red,
90-104
. See
King's Mountain
.


Du Loup River,
the, Arnold's men cross,
29
.


Dunmore,
Lord, driven from Virginia,
36
.



E


Ellsworth,
Oliver, at the Philadelphia convention,
146
.


Enos,
Colonel,
22
,
23
.

    deserts Arnold,
24
.


Enterprise,
the, fights a Tripolitan man-of-war,
157
.


Experiment,
the, a British man-of-war,
46
.



F


Farragut,
Admiral,
41
.


Federalist,
the,
154
.


Federalists,
the,
153
.


Ferguson,
Colonel, character of,
91
.

    enlists Tories and raids the Carolinas,
92
.

    threatens the backwoodsmen,
92
.

    the rally of the backwoodsmen to attack,
94
.

    retreats before the backwoodsmen,
97
.

    makes a stand at King's Mountain,
99
.

    defeated at King's Mountain,
101-103
.

    the death of, at King's Mountain,
102
.


Fish,
Nicholas, with Lafayette at Yorktown,
208
.


Fiske,
John, the historian,
115
,
139
.


Fort Detroit,
Hamilton's headquarters,
4
,
11
. See the map in
Chapter I
.


Fort Pitt,
5. See the map in
Chapter I
.


Fort Sullivan,
the defense of,
36-49
.

    built of palmetto logs,
38
.

    the mounting of cannon in,
39
.

    visited by General Lee,
39
.

    Lee advises the surrender of,
39
,
46
.

    the British plan of attack on,
41
.

    the attack on,
41-48
.

    the repulse of the British attack on,
48
.

    the moral effect of the defense of,
49
.


Fort Sumter,
43
.


France,
the king of, promises us aid,
201
.


Franklin and Holston
settlements, now Tennessee,
92
.


Franklin, Benjamin,
at the Philadelphia convention,
146
.

    work of, in framing the Constitution,
150
,
152
.

    the witty remark of, about the Constitution,
152
.

    a quotation from the almanac of,
157
.

    aids Lafayette,
200
.


Frederick the Great
of Prussia, friendly to us,
145
.


Freeman's Farm,
Burgoyne defeated at,
114
.


French Canadians,
the, help Arnold,
28
.


French fleet,
the, under De Grasse,
125
. See
De Grasse
.


French villages,
the, north of the Ohio River,
3
,
11
,
15
.



G


Gates,
General, the statue of, at Saratoga,
18
.

    sent to take command in the South,
90
.

    defeated at Camden, South Carolina,
90
.

    the character of,
90
,
105
.


George,
King, receives word of Cornwallis's surrender,
137
.


Georgia,
overrun by the British,
90
.

    protests against abolishing slavery,
150
.


Germantown,
Pennsylvania, Wayne at,
82
.


Gerry,
Elbridge, at the Philadelphia convention,
147
.


Gibault,
Father, aids Clark,
8
.


Gibbs,
General, leads the British at New Orleans,
195
.

    severely wounded,
196
.


Gibraltar,
Dacres gives Hull a dinner at,
179
.


Gibraltar of America,
the, Quebec,
30
,
35
.

    the little, Stony Point,
80
,
88
.


Gilmer,
Enoch, spies out Ferguson,
100
.


Gladstone,
William Ewart, how the Constitution was regarded by,
155
.


Gloucester,
Virginia, Cornwallis plans to escape by way of,
132
.


Graves,
Admiral, forced to withdraw from Chesapeake Bay,
130
.


Greene,
Nathanael,
65
.

    Washington's right-hand man,
90
.

    the ability of,
105
.

    left the army for a time,
115
.

    defeated at Guilford, North Carolina,
123
.

    the death of,
147
.


Grier,
Sergeant, and his wife, with Arnold's expedition to Quebec,
22
,
27
.


Guerrière,
the, a British frigate, destroyed by "Old Ironsides,"
178
.


Guilford,
North Carolina, Lord Cornwallis defeats Greene at,
123
.



H


Hale,
Nathan, the patriot spy,
50-61
.

    volunteers to serve as a spy,
53
.

    receives his instructions from Washington,
53
.

    the parentage and the home of,
54
.

    the boyhood of,
54
.

    the education of,
54
.

    teaches school in New London, Connecticut,
54
.

    bids his pupils farewell,
55
.

    starts for Cambridge,
55
.

    the diary of,
55
.

    disguises himself,
56
.

    returns in safety from the British lines, but puts up at "Mother Chick's,"