123
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
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