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Newspapers and Journals
Boston Gazette
Boston Newsletter
Boston Transcript
Connecticut Gazette and Universal Intelligencer (New London)
Connecticut Journal (New Haven)
Essex Gazette (Salem, Mass.)
Essex Journal (Newburyport, Mass.)
Freeman’s Journal (Philadelphia)
Gentleman’s Magazine (London)
Hartford (Connecticut) Courant and Weekly Intelligencer
Lloyd’s Evening Post and British Chronicle (London)
London Chronicle
London Gazette
London Gazette and New Daily Advertiser
London General Evening Post
London Public Advertiser
Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly Newsletter
Massachusetts Spy (Boston)
Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction (London)
Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser
New England Chronicle and Essex Gazette (Cambridge, Mass.)
New Haven Journal
Newport (Rhode Island) Mercury
New York Constitutional Gazette
New York Gazette
New-York Packet
New York Sun
Pennsylvania Evening Post (Philadelphia)
Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia)
Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser (Philadelphia)
Pennsylvania Packet (Philadelphia)
Providence Gazette
St. James’s Chronicle (London)
Universal Magazine (London)
Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg)
Index
Acland, John Dyke
Acquackanonk, N.J.
Adams, Abigail
John Adams’s correspondence with
Adams, Elihu
Adams, John
Articles of War drawn up by
Board of War headed by
in delegation to Lord Howe
on GW
GW’s communications with
marriage of, see Adams, Abigail
Addison, Joseph
Adlum, John
African Americans:
in Continental Army
see also slaves
Agincourt, Battle of
Albany, N.Y.
Alexander, Giles
Alexander, Phil
Alexander, William, see Stirling, William
Alexander, Lord
Alexander the Great
Allegheny Mountains
Allegheny River valley
Allen, Andrew
Allen, Ethan
American army, see Continental Army American colonies
British establishment of
British sympathy with
coach travel in
high standard of living in
Loyalists in
thirteen original
see also specific colonies
American naval forces
inadequacy of
privateers engaged by
American Revolution:
American lives lost in
British peace overtures in
first blood shed in
first great battle of, see Brooklyn Battle of
foreign financial support in
French and Indian War veterans in
as the Glorious Cause of America
heroes of
independence as emerging object of
Parliamentary debate on
see also specific battles and campaigns
Anderson, Enoch
Annapolis, Md.
Arnold, Benedict
Asia, HMS
Assunpink Creek
Atlee, Samuel
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Back Bay
Baldwin, Loammi
Balfour, Nisbet
Baltimore, Md.
Bangs, Isaac
Barbados
Bardeleben, Johann Heinrich von
Barnstable, Mass.
Barré, Isaac
Basking Ridge, N.J.
Becker, John
Bedford, N.Y.
Belknap, Jeremy
Benedict, Abner
Berkshire Mountains
Bible
Bixby, Samuel
Blockade, The (Burgoyne)
Bloomingdale, N.Y.
Blue Ridge Mountains
Boston, Mass.
American army encampment near
Beacon Hill in
bitter winter of in
British army under siege in
British headquarters in
British plunder and destruction of
churches in
civilians living under siege in
Common in
GW’s triumphal entry into
hasty British evacuation of
Loyalists in
melancholy and disease in
“Mount Whoredom” red-light district in
prominent families of
refugees from
smallpox in
taverns in
victorious American occupation of
Boston Gazette,
Boston Grenadier Corps
Boston Harbor
British ships in
Long Wharf in
Boston Latin School
Boston Massacre
Boston Neck
Bostwick, Elisha
Bowdoin, James
Box, Daniel