The American Revolution 1775–1783

Abercrombie, James (1732–1775)

Abercrombie, Sir Robert (1740–1827)

Adams, Abigail Smith (1744–1818)

Adams, John (1735–1826)

Adams, Samuel (1722–1803)

Alamance, Battle of. See North Carolina in the American Revolution; Tryon, William.

Alexander, William. Known as Lord Stirling (1726–1783)

Allan, John (1746–?)

Allen, Ethan (1738–1789)

Allen, Levi (?–?)

American Southwest during the American Revolution

Amherst, Jeffrey, 1st Baron (1717–1797)

Amnesties and Pardons

Amusette

Andrés John (1750–1780)

Arbuthnot, Mariot (Marriot; Mariott) (1711–1794)

Armand’s Legion

Armstrong, John, Sr. (c. 1717–1795)

Army Pay

Arnold, Benedict (1741–1801)

Arnold’s March to Quebec (September–November 1775)

Arnold’s Raid on Virginia (December 30, 1780–January 19, 1781)

Articles of Confederation

Artillery

Artillery (British)

Artillery (Continental)

Artillery (French)

Artillery (German)

Asgill-Huddy-Lippincott Affair (March–October 1782)

Ashe, John (1725–1781)

Associated Loyalists. See Asgill-Huddy-Lippincott affair.

Augusta, Georgia, in the American Revolution

Bahamas, Spanish Occupation of the (May 8, 1782–April 18, 1783)

Bailey, Anne (1742–1825)

Baker General

Baldwin, Jeduthan (1730–1788)

Balfour, Nisbet (1793–1832)

Bank of North America

Barney, Joshua (1759–1818)

Barras, Comte de (Jacques Melchoir Saint-Laurent) (?–c. 1800)

Barren Hill, Pennsylvania, Engagement at (May 10, 1778)

Barron, James (1740–1787)

Barry, John (1745–1803)

Bartlett, Josiah (1729–1795)

Barton, William (1740–1831)

Baton Rouge, West Florida, Capture of (September 21, 1779)

Baylor’s Massacre (Old Tappan, New Jersey) (September 27–28, 1778)

Bayonet

Bayonet Fighting

Beaumarchais, Pierre–Augustin Caron de (1732–1799)

Bennington, New York, Battle of (August 16, 1777)

Berthier, Louis-Alexandre (1753–1815)

Biddle, Nicholas (1750–1778)

Biddle, Owen (1754–1806)

Bird’s Expedition to Kentucky (April 12–August 4, 1780)

Black Hessians

Black Horse Tavern (Pennsylvania), Battle of (December 11, 1777) (Alternate names: Bryn Mawr, Harrington House, Rebel Hill)

Black Loyalist Migration to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone

Black Loyalists

Black Patriots

Black Regiment of Rhode Island. See Greene, Christopher.

Blacks in Georgia during the American Revolution

Blacks on the Western Frontier

Blackstock’s Ford, South Carolina, Battle of (November 20, 1780)

Blaine, Ephriam (1741–1805)

Blanchard, Claude (1742–1803)

Bland, Theodorick, Jr. (1742–1790)

Blue Licks, Kentucky, Battle of (August 19, 1782)

Blunderbuss

Board of War and Ordnance

Bolton, Mason (?–1780)

Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis, Battle of the (September 23, 1779)

Boone, Daniel (1734–1820)

Boston, Massachusetts, Siege of (April 19, 1775–March 17, 1776)

Boston Tea Party. See Massachusetts in the American Revolution.

Boudinot, Elias (1740–1821)

Bougainville, Louis-Antoine, Comte de (1729–1811)

Bound Brook, New Jersey, Engagement at (April 13, 1777)

Boyd, John (?–1779)

Brandywine, Pennsylvania, Battle of (September 11, 1777)

Brant, Joseph (1742–1807)

Brant, Molly (c. 1736–1796)

Breymann, Heinrich Christoph von (?—1777)

Briar Creek, Georgia, Battle of (March 3, 1779) (Alternate spelling: Brier)

British Indian Department

British Legion

British Naval Department, Great Lakes

British Naval Strategy in the American Revolution

British Navy, Strength of

British Prison Ships of New York City

Brodhead, Daniel (1736–1809)

Brodhead’s Expedition (August 11–September 14, 1779)

Brown Bess

Brown, Thomas (1750–1825)

Browne, Montfort (?–1785)

Bryan’s Station, Kentucky, Siege of (August 15–17, 1782)

Bulloch, Archibald (1730–1777)

Bull’s Ferry, New Jersey, Raid on (July 20–21, 1780)

Bunker Hill, Massachusetts, Battle of (June 17, 1775) (Alternate names: Battle of Bunker’s Hill, Battle of Charlestown Heights, Battle of Breed’s Hill)

Burgoyne, John (1722–1794)

Burke, Edmund (1729–1797)

Burke County Jail, Georgia, Engagement at (January 26, 1779)

Burr, Aaron (1756–1836)

Bush, Solomon (1753–1795)

Bushnell, David (1740–1824)

Butler, John (1728–1796)

Butler, Richard (1743–1791)

Butler, Walter (1752–1781)

Butler, Zebulon (1730–1795)

Butler’s Rangers

Byron, John (1723–1786)

Cadwalader, John (1742–1786)

Callender, John (?–1797)

Cambray-Dignay, Louis Antoine Jean Baptiste, Chevalier de (1751–1822)

Camden, South Carolina, Battle of (August 16, 1780)

Cameron, Alexander (?–1781)

Campbell, Archibald (1739–1791)

Campbell, William (1745–1781)

Camp Followers (American and British)

Camp Followers (German)

Canada, Invasion of (1775–1776)

Canada, Proposed Invasions of (1778–1779)

Cannon Founders (American)

Cape Henry, Virginia, Battle of (March 16, 1781)

Cape Spartel, Morocco, Battle of (October 20, 1782)

Capes, [Maryland], Battle of the Chesapeake (September 5, 1781)

Carbine

Carleton, Guy, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724–1808)

Carr, Patrick (?–1802)

Carr’s Fort, Georgia, Engagement at (February 10, 1779)

Cartography in the American Revolution

Casualties in the Continental Army

Caswell, Richard (1729–1789)

Cathcart, William Schaw (1755–1843)

Catherine the Great (1729–1796)

Cavalry in the American Revolution

Cedars, Battle of the (Quebec) (May 18–19, 1776)

Chambly, Quebec

Champe, John (c. 1758–1818)

Chaplains, Military, in the American Revolution

Charles III (1716–1788)

Charleville Musket

Chastellux, Chevalier de (Francois-Jean de Beauvoir) (1734–1788)

Chatham, Earl of

Cherokee Ford, South Carolina, Engagement at (February 11, 1779)

Cherokee Indians

Cherokee War of 1776

Cherry Valley Massacre (New York) (November 11, 1778)

Chickamauga Cherokee Indians

Chickasaw Indians

Choctaw Indians

Choiseul, Étienne-François, Duc de(1719–1785)

Church, Benjamin (1734–1778)

Church of England

Cincinnati, Society of the

Clark, George Rogers (1752–1818)

Clarke, Alured (c. 1745–1832)

Clarke, Elijah (1742–1799)

Claus, Christian Daniel (1727–1787)

Cleaveland, Samuel (c. 1727–1794)

Cleveland, Benjamin (1736–1806)

Clinton, Henry (1730–1795)

Clinton, James (1733–1812)

Clinton’s Expedition against Charleston, South Carolina (June 4–28, 1776)

Clinton’s Expedition to the Hudson Highlands (October 3–November 1, 1777)

Closen-Haydenburg, Hans Christoph Friedrich Ignatz Ludwig, Baron von (c. 1754–1830)

Clothier General

Clouds, Battle of the (Pennsylvania) (September 16, 1777) (Alternate names: Boot Tavern, Goshen, White Horse Tavern)

Clubbed Musket

Cochran, John (1730–1807)

Colden, Cadwallader (1688–1776)

Collier, Sir George (1738–1795)

Collier-Mathew Raid on Virginia (May 8–24, 1779)

Colomb, Pierre (?–?)

Combahee Ferry, South Carolina, Engagement at (August 25, 1782)

Commander-in-Chiefs Guard (The Life Guard)

Commissary General

Committee and Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies

Congreve, William (1743–1814)

Connecticut in the American Revolution

Connolly, John (1750–?)

Conscientious Objectors, Loyalist

Conscription for the Continental Army

Continental Congress

Continental Navy

Convention Army

Convention of Aranjuez (April 12, 1779)

Conway Cabal (1777–1778)

Conyngham, Gustavus (1747–1819)

Cooches Bridge, Delaware, Engagement at (September 3, 1777) (Alternate names: Iron Hill, Aikin’s Tavern)

Copper Sheathing

Corbin, Margaret (1751–1800)

Cornstalk (c. 1720–1777)

Cornwallis, Charles, 1st Marquis (1738–1805)

Cornwallis’s Invasion of Virginia (May 20–October 17, 1781)

Corps of Foot in Newfoundland

Coudray, Philippe Charles Jean Baptiste Tronson du (1738–1777)

Counterfeiting, Loyalist

Cowan’s Ford, North Carolina, Battle of (February 1, 1781) (Alternate name: McCowan’s Ford)

Cowpens, South Carolina, Battle of (January 17, 1781)

Craig, Isaac (1742–1826)

Craig, James Henry (1748–1812)

Craik, James (1730–1814)

Crane, John (1744–1805)

Crawford, William (1732–1782)

Crawford’s Sandusky Expedition (May–June 1782)

Creek Indians

Cresap, Michael (1742–1775)

Croghan, George (1720–1782)

Crooked Billet, Pennsylvania, Engagement at (May 1, 1778)

Crown Point, New York

Cruden, John (?–?)

Cunningham, Patrick (c. 1743–1790)

Cunningham, Robert (1741–1813)

Cunningham, William (“Bloody Bill”) (1756–1787)

Currency and Coins (Continental)

Dalling, John (c. 1731–1798)

Danbury, Connecticut, Raid on (April 21–28, 1777)

Danish Navy

Dartmouth, 2nd Earl of (William Legge) (1731–1801)

Davidson, William Lee (c. 1746–1781)

Davie, William Richardson (1756–1820)

Dayton, Elias (1737–1807)

Deane, Silas (1737–1789)

Dearborn, Henry (1751–1829)

Declaration of Independence

Decorations, Military

De Lancey, James (1746–1802)

De Lancey, Oliver (1718–1785)

De Lancey, Oliver, Jr. (1749–1822)

Delaware Continentals

Delaware Indians

Delaware River, Defense of the (October–November 1777)

DePeyster, Arent Schuyler (1736–1822)

Deserontyou, John (c. 1740–?)

Desertion in the Continental Army

Des Deux-Ponts, Comte Guillaume de Forbach (Zwiebruecken, Wilhelm Graf von Forbach und Freiherr von) (1754–1807)

Deux-Ponts, Christian, Count (later Marquis) de Forbach des Deux-Ponts (1752–1817)

Deveaux, Andrew, Jr. (1758—?)

DeWitt, Simeon (1756–1834)

Dickert Rifle

Dickinson, Philemon (1739–1809)

Digby, Robert (1732–1814)

Dillon

Dillon, Arthur, Comte (1750–1794)

Dillon, Édouard (the “Beau Dillon”), Comte (1750–1839)

Dillon, Francois (“Frank”) Theobald (1764–1837)

Dillon, Robert Guillaume, Baron (1754–1837)

Dillon, Theobald Hyacinthe (1745–1792)

Diplomacy of the American Revolution

Doane Gang

Dogger Bank, North Sea, Battle of (August S, 1781)

Donop, Karl Armilius Kurt von (1740–1777)

Dooly, John (?–1780)

Doughty, John (1754–1826)

Douglas, Charles (?–1789)

Dragging Canoe (c. 1730–1792)

Drayton, William Henry (1742–1779)

Drug Supply in the American Revolution

Dulany, Daniel (1722–1797)

Dundas, Thomas (1750–1794)

Dunmore, Lord

Dunmore’s Proclamation (November 7, 1775)

Dunmore’s War

Duportail, Louis Lebeque de Presie (1743–1802)

Dutch Navy

Dyer, Eliphalet (1721–1807)

Dyke-Acland (Ackland), John (1747–1778)

Eddy, Jonathan (1726–1804)

Elbert, Samuel (1740–1788)

Elliott, Matthew (1739–1814)

Emisteseguo of Little Tallassee (?–1782)

Emmerich’s Chasseurs

Engineers (Continental)

Erskine, Robert (1735–1780)

Estaing, Charles-Henri-Theodat d% Comte (1729–1794)

Eutaw Springs, South Carolina, Battle of (September 8, 1781)

Evacuation Day, New York City (November 25, 1783)

Ewald, Johann von (1744–1813)

Falmouth, Massachusetts, the Burning of (October 18, 1775)

Fanning, David (1755–1825)

Fanning, Edmund (“Ned”) (1739–1818)

Febiger, Christian (1746–1796)

Feld Jaeger Corps

Ferguson, Patrick (1744–1780)

Ferguson Rifle

Fermoy, Matthias Alexis de Roche (c. 1737–?)

Fishdam Ford, South Carolina, Action at (November 9, 1780)

Fishing Creek, South Carolina, Action at (August 18, 1780)

Flag, the American

Fleury, Francois Louis Teissedre de (1749–?)

Florida in the American Revolution

Florida, Invasions of

Floyd, John (1750–1783)

Flying Camp (July-November 1776)

“Forage War”

Fort Anne, New York, Skirmish at (July 8, 1777)

Fort Dorchester, South Carolina

Fort Griswold and the Battle of Groton Heights, Connecticut (September 6, 1781)

Fort Jefferson (1780–1781)

Fort Lee, New Jersey, Fall of (November 20, 1776)

Fort Moultrie, South Carolina

Fort Niagara, New York

Fort St. Joseph, Michigan, Capture of (February 12, 1781)

Fort Stanwix, New York, Siege of (August 2–10, 1777)

Fort Ticonderoga, New York

Fort Ticonderoga, New York, Capture of (May 10, 1775)

Fort Washington, New York, Fall of (November 16, 1776)

Fox, Charles James (1749–1806)

Francisco, Peter (c. 1760–1831)

Francklin, Michael (1733–1782)

Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790)

Franklin, Benjamin, and the Parisian Masonic Lodge of the Nine Sisters

Franklin, William (1731–1813)

Fraser, Simon (1726–1782)

Fraser (Frazer, Frazier), Simon (1729–1777)

Fraser, Simon (1738–1813)

Frederick the Great and Prussian Diplomacy

Fusil and Fusilier (Alternate spellings: Fusee, Fuzil, Fuzee)

Gage, Thomas (1719?–1787)

Galloway, Joseph (c. 1730–1803)

Galphin, George (c. 1709–1780)

Galvez, Bernardo de (1746–1786)

Galvez, José de (1726–1786)

Gambier, James (1723–1789)

Gansevoort, Peter (1749–1812)

Gardoqui, Diego (?–?)

Garrison Battalion

Gates, Horatio (1728–1806)

George III (1738–1820)

Georgia, British Occupation of

Georgia Continentals

Georgia in the American Revolution

Gérard, Conrad Alexandre (1729–1790)

Germain, George Sackville, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716–1785)

German Auxiliaries

German Flats, New York, Raid on (September 17, 1778)

Germantown, Pennsylvania, Battle of (October 4, 1777)

Gibraltar, Siege of (1779–1783)

Gillon, Alexander

Girty, Simon (1741–1818)

Gloucester, Virginia, Skirmish at (October 3, 1781)

Glover, John (1732–1794)

Grant, James (1720–1806)

Grasse, François-Joseph-Paul, Comte de (Comte de Tilly) (1722–1788)

Graves, Samuel (1713–1787)

Graves, Thomas (1725–1802)

Great Bridge, Virginia, Engagement at (December 9, 1775)

Great Lakes Posts

“Green Mountain Boys” (Warner’s Regiment)

Green Spring, Virginia, Battle of (alternate: Jamestown Ford) (July 6, 1781)

Greene, Christopher (1737–1781)

Greene, Nathanael (1742–1786)

Greene’s Southern Strategy

Grenada, West Indies, Battle of (July 6, 1778)

Grey, Charles, 1st Earl Grey (1729–1807)

Gribeauval, Jean Baptiste Vaquette de (1715–1789)

Gridley, Richard (1711–1796)

Grierson, James (?–1781)

Guilford Court House, North Carolina, Battle of (March 15, 1781)

Gundalow

Gunpowder, Supply of

Gunsmiths (American)

Gwinnett, Button (1735–1777)

Gwynn’s Island, Virginia, Battle of (July 8–10, 1776)

Haldimand, Frederick (1718–1791)

Hale, Nathan (1755–1776)

Hall, Lyman (1724–1790)

Hamilton, Alexander (1757–1804)

Hamilton, Henry (c. 1734–1796)

Hamilton, John (?–1817)

Hammond’s Store, South Carolina, Action at (December 28, 1780)

Hancock, John· See Massachusetts in the American Revolution.

Hancock’s Bridge, New Jersey, Massacre at (March 21, 1778)

Hand, Edward (1744–1802)

Hanger, George (c. 1751–1824)

Hanging Rock, South Carolina, Battle of (August 6, 1780)

Harding, Seth (1734–1814)

Harlem Heights, New York, Battle of (September 16, 1776)

Harmar, Josiah (1753–1813)

Hart, Nancy (c. 1735–1800)

Hayne, Isaac, Execution of (August 4, 1781)

Hazen, Moses (1733–1803)

Heath, William (1737–1814)

Heister, Leopold Philipe von (?–1777)

Henry, Patrick, (1736–1799)

Herkimer, Nicholas (?–1777)

Herrera, Luciano de (?–?)

“Hickey Conspiracy” (June 1776)

Hobkirk’s Hill, North Carolina, Battle of (April 25, 1781)

Honeyman, John (c. 1729–1822)

Hood, Sir Samuel (1724–1816)

Hopkins, Esek (1718–1801)

Hopkins, John Burroughs (1742–1796)

Howard, John Eager (1752–1827)

Howe, Richard Lord (1726–1799)

Howe, Robert (1732–1786)

Howe, William (1729–1814)

Hubbardton, Vermont, Battle of (July 7, 1777)

Huntington, Jedediah (1743–1818)

Hutchins, Thomas (1730–1789)

Indian Ocean, the American Revolution in the

Intelligence Service for George Washington

Invalids, Corps of

Iroquois Indians

Irvine, William (1741–4804)

Jackson, James (1757–1806)

Jasper, William (?–?)

Jay, John (1745–1829)

Jefferson, Thomas, and the American Revolution

Jewish Entrepreneurs in Philadelphia

Johnson, Guy (c. 1740–1788)

Johnson, John (1742–1830)

Johnson, William (1715–1774)

Johnston, Elizabeth Lichtenstein (1764–1848)

Jones, John Paul (1747–1792)

Jones, Thomas (1731–1792)

Jouett, Jack (1754–1822)

Journalism in the American Revolution

Justice, Military, in the Continental Army

Kalb, Johann de (1721–1780)

Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes

Kayashota (Guyasuta, Kiasota, Geyesutha) (1725–c. 1795)

Kennedy, Samuel (1730–1778)

Kenton, Simon (1755–1836)

Keppel-Palliser Affair

Kettle Creek, Georgia, Battle of (February 14, 1779)

King’s American Regiment

King’s Mountain, South Carolina, Battle of (October 7, 1780)

Kingston Prisons, New York

Kip’s Bay, New York, Engagement at (September 15, 1776)

Kirkland, Moses (?–1787)

Kirkland, Samuel (1741–1808)

Klock’s Field, New York, Engagement at (October 19, 1780) (Alternate name: Fox’s Mills)

Knowlton, Thomas (1740–1776)

Knox, Henry (1750–1806)

Knyphausen, Wilhelm von (1716–1800)

Kosciuszko, Taduesz Andrzej Bonawentura (born Mereczowszczyna) (1746–1817)

Ladies Association of Philadelphia

Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de (1757–1834)

Lamb, John (1735–1800)

Lamb, Roger (1756–1830)

Langdon, John (1741–1819)

Langlade, Charles-Michel Movet de (1729–1800)

Laurens, Henry (1724–1792)

Laurens, John (1754–1782)

Lauzun, Armand Louis de Gontaut-Biron, Duc de (1747–1793)

League of Armed Neutrality

Learned, Ebenezer (1728–1801)

Lee, Arthur (1740–1792)

Lee, Charles (1731–1782)

Lee, Charles, Capture of (December 13, 1776)

Lee, Henry (“Light-Horse Harry”) (1756–1818)

Lee, William (1744–?)

L’Enfant, Pierre Charles (1754–1825)

Leslie, Alexander (1731–1794)

Leslie’s Raid on Virginia (October 30-November 22, 1780)

Lewis, Andrew (1720–1781)

Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, Battles of (April 19, 1775)

Light Infantry (British)

Light Infantry (Continental)

Lincoln, Benjamin (1733–1810)

Linear Tactics (1775–1783)

“Lititz Pharmacopoeia”

Little, Moses (1724–1798)

Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, Raid on (October 4–5, 1778)

Little Mountain (Kentucky), Battle of (March 22, 1782)

Livingston, William (1723–1790)

Lloyd’s Neck, New York

Lochry’s Defeat (August 25, 1781)

Logan, Benjamin (1742–1802)

Long Island, New York, Battle of (August 27, 1776)

Long Island, New York, Raids on

Longrifle, American

Lord Dunmore

Louis XVI (1754–1793)

Loyalism

Loyalists

Loyalists in Canada

Ludington, Sybil (1761–1839)

Lutherans in the American Revolution

Luzerne, Anne-Cesar, Chevalier de la (1741–1791)

Lynch, Charles (1736–1795)