Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency (61 page)

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Authors: Logan Beirne

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Colquhoun, Joseph
 
Colquhoun, Samuel
 
Common Sense
(Paine)
 
Confederation Congress; and public debt; weakness of
 
Connecticut; Arnold in; Beebe attack in; Loyalist uprising in; trade wars in
 
Constitutional Convention; alcohol at; delegates to; on monarchy; and originalism; quorum for; suspicion of
 
Continental Army: at André’s execution; coup plot; defection from; demographics of; desertion from; discipline in; disease in; monarchy proposal from; pay for; supplying of
 
Continental Congress: on André’s trial; in Annapolis; army hostility to; Arnold’s demands of; Articles of War; on burning Manhattan; on Canada invasion; and command structure; on courts-martial; on debt & currency; Declaration of Independence; delegation to Howe; on “dictator” powers; factions in; flight to Baltimore; French influence on; on Gates vs. Washington; and Independence Hall; on Loyalists; on New York defense; officer appointment by; Olive Branch Petition; and peace negotiations; and peace treaty; on Philadelphia defense; on prisoner treatment; raising battalions; on smallpox inoculation; on Smith court-martial; on spies; supplying of army; on treason; and war council; on war strategy & tactics; on Washington’s expanded powers; on Washington vs. Lee; weakness of
 
Continental currency
 
Cornwallis, Charles Lord; at Brandywine Creek; vs. Clinton; in southern campaign; at Yorktown
 
counterfeiting
 
courts-martial; of Hickey; modern procedure; of Smith
 
Cunningham, William (“Bloody Bill”)
 
 
Dayton, Jonathan
 
debt
 
Declaration of Independence; citizenship in; drafting of; Howe’s demand on
 
defection;
see also
Arnold, Benedict; Hickey, Thomas; Mathews, David
 
District of Columbia v. Heller
 
dueling
 
 
East Haddam, Conn.
 
Edward I (king)
 
Elliot, Andrew
 
Eskridge, George
 
 
Fabius Maximus, Quintus
 
Federal Hall
 
Federalist Papers
 
Fort Arnold;
see also
West Point
 
Fort Montgomery
 
Fort Ticonderoga
 
Fort Washington
 
France; Arnold on; and Asgill; debt to; enters war; fear of; and flintlock musket; and Franklin; and Jumonville Affair; in peace negotiations; and Yorktown
 
Franklin, Benjamin: and bifocals; at Constitutional Convention; in France; at peace negotiations; on prisoner treatment; at Staten Island talks; wit of
 
Fraunces Tavern
 
Frederick the Great (king of Prussia)
 
French, Christopher
 
 
Gage, Thomas
 
Galston, William
 
Gates, Horatio (“Granny”); ambition of; and Arnold; and military coup plot; at Saratoga; and Southern Army
 
Genesee Castle, N.Y.
 
George III (king); and Asgill; complaints against; and Howe; and insanity (porphyria); and Native Americans; and Parliament; and prisoner treatment; subjects’ allegiance to; victory expectation; on war loss; on Washington
 
Georgia
 
Germain, George Lord
 
Germantown, Penn.
 
Germany; mercenaries from
 
Gibbons, Mary
 
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
 
Great Britain: accents in; courts-martial in; and germ warfare; and Jumonville Affair; on Lee’s capture; mercenaries for; monarchy of; naval power of; Parliament of; in peace negotiations; prisoner treatment by; Quartering Act; and Seven Years’ War; sovereign-subject allegiance in; taxation by; Tea Act; treaty violation by;
see also
British Army
 
Greece (ancient)
 
Greene, Nathanael: and André; on civil war; on commander’s powers; and Philadelphia plans; and Quakers; and Southern Army; at Yorktown
 
Green Mountain Boys
 
 
Haiti
 
Hamilton, Alexander: on André; on civil authority; at Constitutional Convention; on Gates; on Greene’s skill; and Laurens/Lee duel; on peace treaty; on public debt; on Washington’s leadership; and Yorktown
 
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
 
Henley, David
 
Herring, John
 
Hessians; in New Jersey battles; plunder by; at Trenton
 
Hickey, Thomas
 
Hope
, HMS
 
Howe, William; Boston escape; and Burgyone; and Clinton; as conciliator; on Declaration of Independence; on defectors; and George III; and Hudson River; and Lee; and Mrs. Loring; on New Jersey losses; and New York City; and Philadelphia; and prisoner treatment; resignation of; on southern strategy; and Staten Island talks; on Trenton defeat; and Washington’s title; winter recess
 
Howland, Prince
 
Huddy, Joseph
 
Hudson River / Valley: British aims in; Fort Montgomery; Gates vs. Burgoyne in; Great Chain; Kingston;
see also
West Point
 
 
Independence Hall; evacuation of; and Washington’s eyeglasses
 
India
 
Ireland
 
 
Jay, John
 
Jefferson, Thomas; and Declaration of Independence; education of; on peace treaty; on public debt; on “tree of liberty,”
 
Jones, John Paul
 
Julius Caesar
 
Jumonville, Joseph Coulon de Villiers de
 
Jumonville Affair
 
 
Kennedy, Anthony
 
 
Latin America
 
Laurens, Henry
 
Laurens, John
 
Lee, Charles; disobedience trial; duel; and Gates; on Howe & Mrs. Loring; at Monmouth; as prisoner; rivalry with Washington; and war council
 
Lexington, Mass.
 
Locke, John
 
Loring, Elizabeth
 
Loring, Joshua
 
Louis XVI (king)
 
Loyalists; attacks on; in British forces; in Continental Army; Cunningham “blood-hounds,” ; disarming of; fines on; flight to Britain; in Germain’s southern strategy; in Manhattan; on Mrs. Loring; Native American allies of; numbers of; in Philadelphia; plot against Washington; and privateers; property of; prosecution of; rights of; Shippens; and Smith trial; as spies; treason resolution on; and Washington rumors; Washington’s tolerance of
 
 
Maclay, William
 
Madison, James
 
Manhattan: British attack on; burning of; defense of; Federal Hall; Fort Washington; Harlem Heights battle; Loyalists in; retreat from; riots in;
see also
New York City
 
Marie Antoinette
 
Marion, Frances
 
martial law; in Boston; and deserters
 
Martin, Joseph Plumb
 
Massachusetts: Lexington battle; martial law in; radicalism in; Shays’ Rebellion in;
see also
Boston
 
Massachusetts Council
 
Mathews, David
 
McCauley, Mary Hays
 
Medal of Honor
 
military tribunals; for André; for Shanks
 
“Molly Pitcher,”
 
monarchy: British; fear of; French; as option; subjects’ allegiance to
 
Monmouth, N.J.
 
Montreal
 
Morocco
 
Morse, Jedidiah
 
Mount Vernon
 
Murray, Mary
 
muskets
 
 
Native Americans: British appeasement of; as British / Loyalist allies; in Jumonville Affair; as noncitizens; torture by; vengeance against; on Washington’s invulnerability
 
Netherlands
 
Newburgh (N.Y.) conspiracy
 
New Hampshire
 
New Jersey; Monmouth battle; Morristown; Princeton battle; Toms River attack; Trenton battle
 
New York: and army provisions; civil war in; Hudson Valley; and Loyalist property; military conspiracy in; plot against Washington; and “torture tree,” ; trade wars in;
see also
New York Provincial Congress
 
New York City; Brooklyn battle; Clinton in; Continental Army in; defense efforts; Federal Hall in; Hickey hanging in; Howe’s quarters in; Manhattan attack; retreat from; September 11 attack; victory in; Washington’s farewell in; Washington’s ruse on;
see also
Manhattan
 
New York Provincial Congress: on dictatorial powers; on inoculation; and Mathews arrest; and plot against Washington; on tar & feathering
 
Nicola, Lewis
 
North, Frederick Lord
 
North Carolina
 
 
Olive Branch Petition
 
 
Paine, Thomas
 
Parker, Michael (scout)
 
Pennsylvania; Brandywine Creek; Native / Loyalist attack in; Supreme Court of;
see also
Philadelphia
 
Pennsylvania Journal
 
Philadelphia: Arnold in; British attack on; British retreat from; Congress flees; Congress returns; Independence Hall; Loyalist evictions in; revenge attacks in
 
plunder / theft; by Hessians; prohibition on; punishment of
 
Poland
 
Prescott, Richard (Brigadier)
 
Princeton, N.J.
 
prisoner exchange
 
property rights; and confiscations; Locke on; and military needs
 
Prussia
 
Putnam, Israel (“Old Put”)
 
 
Quakers
 
Quartering Act
 
 
Rhode Island
 
Richard the Lionheart
 
Rittenhouse, David
 
Roberts, John
 
Roman Empire
 
Roman Republic
 
Russia
 
Rutledge, Edward
 
 
Saratoga, N.Y.: Battle of; Arnold’s grudge over; and Gates’s ambition
 
Savannah, Ga.
 
Scalia, Antonin
 
Schuyler, Philip
 
Seneca tribe: and Genesee Castle; and Jumonville Affair; as Loyalist allies; torture by
 
September 11 attack
 
Seven Years’ War; Arnold in; and British debt; Cornwallis in; Gage in; Gates in; germ warfare in; Lee in; Washington in
 

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