Defiant Brides

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    Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice de (Prince Talleyrand), 176
    Tallmadge, Benjamin, 105–106, 115
    Tarleton, Banastre, 135
    Tarrantines, 180–181
    Ternay, Charles-Henri-Louis d’Arsac, 87
    Thacher, James, 21, 57; on André’s execution, 116; on battle of Yorktown, 129; on blizzards of 1779–1780, 72; on Continental army mutineers, 118; on discovery of Arnold’s treachery, 103; eulogy for Knox, 198; on Peekskill encampment, 124; on poor conditions in Philadelphia, 127
    Thatcher, Ebenezer, 196
    Thatcher, Henry Knox (Knox grandson), 196, 208
    Thatcher, Julia (Knox granddaughter), 196, 197
    Thomaston, Maine, 185, 208
    Tilghman, Elizabeth (Peggy’s cousin), 46–47, 50, 53, 54
    Tilghman, Tench (Shippen cousin), 78–79
    Tories, 137
    “Tory rides,” 26
    “To the Inhabitants of America” (Arnold), 119
    “To the Officers and Soldiers. . .” (Arnold), 120
    Travels in North-America
(Chastellux), 117
    Travels through the United States of North America
(Rochefoucauld), 181–182
    United States
(American frigate), 173
    Unmasked Nabob of Hancock Country, The,
186
    Upham, Joshua, 158
    Urquart, Hannah Flucker (Lucy’s sister), 19, 20, 21, 145, 152
    U.S. Military Academy at West Point, 205
    Valley Forge, 15, 32, 35; Continental army at, 7, 14, 33; fortification of, 39; life of officers and families at, 37, 39
    Vandeveer, Jacobus, 55, 59
    Van Doren, Mark, 212
    Van Wart, Isaac, 105
    Varick, Richard, 88; attempts to calm Peggy, 96–97; illness of, 94, 96; quarrels with Smith, 90, 94; suspicious of Arnold, 89, 90, 93
    “variolation” against smallpox, 28, 31–32
    Vassal, William, 191
    Vergennes, Charles Gravier de, 87
    Vigilant
(British ship), 9
    Vimeur, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de (Gen. Rochambeau), 87
    Vulture
(British ship), 81, 82, 89, 90, 112, 113; Arnold’s escape to, 97, 98; damaged and repaired, 92, 94
    Waldo, Samuel, 145
    Waldo, Hannah.
See
Flucker, Hannah (
née
Waldo)
    Waldo Patent: attempts to settle, 169; Henry’s land grab of, 171, 186; Henry’s tour of, 145, 149; Lucy’s interest in, 152, 166; squatters on, 186, 195
    Walker, Lewis Burd, 108, 211
    Walsingham, Thomas, 136
    Ward, Samuel, Jr., 37, 39
    Warren, Henry, 171
    Warren, James, 22
    Warren, Mercy Otis, 144, 171
    Warren, Winslow, 171
    Washington, George, 37, 39, 83, 127, 172; André’s confession to, 106; appoints Arnold to special command, 78–79; asks Arnold for guard, 87–88; belief in Peggy’s innocence, 109; biography of, 205; crossing the Delaware, 29; dance at celebration of dauphin’s birthday, 141; death of, 195; despair at Arnold’s treachery, 97; dispatches artillery to West Point, 81; farewell to troops, 146–147; fondness for dancing, 57; friendship with Henry and Lucy, 22, 24, 26; friendship with Shippen family, 12–13; inaugural ball for, 161; informed of André’s capture, 95; march through New York City, 145–146; orders André’s execution, 114; orders army to leave Boston, 25; orders army to Peekskill, 124; orders Arnold to West Point, 79; Peggy’s opinion of, 12; plan for attack on New York, 87; pleads for aid to army, 118; relationship with Arnold, 34, 40–41, 51–52, 71, 76, 120; reprimand of Arnold, 73, 75–76; speech against strike by army, 144; on state of army, 29; support of Society of the Cincinnati, 144; sympathies on death of Knox child, 167; tour of Roxbury fortifications, 21; trip to Peekskill, 89–90; at Valley Forge, 7, 14, 32; watches battle of Yorktown, 129
    Washington, John “Jackie,” 130
    Washington, Martha, 32, 141, 172; absent from inauguration, 161; first “levee” of, 167; friendship with Henry and Lucy, 22, 24, 26, 57; hospitality to Lucy, 127–128; life at Valley Forge, 37
    Waste Lands of the Crown in Upper Canada, 187, 209–210
    Watkins, Anne, 83
    Wayne, Anthony “Mad Anthony,” 57, 173; mutineers and, 118, 119; re-takes Stony Point, 68, 78; scorn for women of Mischianza, 44
    weather: blizzards of 1779–1780, 72, 73; summer heat in Philadelphia, 165, 168, 172
    Webber, John,

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