proclamation of end of hostilities, 135;
saved by _W.'s_ Fabian policy, 257.

Ames, Fisher, speech on Jay Treaty, and its effect, 211-213.

Anderson, James, 240, 253.

Andre, John, Clinton's messenger to Arnold, court-martialed and
hanged, 110, 111.

Annapolis Convention, 158.

Anti-Assumptionists. _See_ State debts.

Anti-Federalists, 186.

Army, Colonial, at Boston, 69 _ff_.;
brought into order by _W_., 72;
lacks powder, 72;
compels evacuation of Boston, 72,73;
how distributed, 76, 77;
_W_. on proper organization of, 80, 81;
his influence over, 82,88;
condition of, at end of 1776, 84;
desertions from, 84, 97;
at Valley Forge, 100 _ff_.;
_W_. on condition of, after the war, 131, 132;
difficulties about back pay, 133, 134, 141;
some officers of, intrigue to make _W_. king, 134;
_W.'s_ reply, 135;
continued turmoil in, 135;
_W.'s_ farewell to officers of, 136, 137;
attitude of Congress toward, 139, 140.

Arnold, Benedict, repulsed at Quebec, 72;
surrenders West Point, 110;
in Virginia, 122, 123; 77.

Articles of Confederation, 152, 153, 156.
And _see_ States of the Confederation.

Assumptionists. _See_ State debts.

_Aurora. See_ Bache, B.F.

Bache, Benjamin F., attacks _W.'s_ administration, in the
_Aurora_, 201, 219, 221, 222.

Ball, Mary, marries Augustine Washington, 1.
And _see_ Washington, Mary (Ball).

Barbados, _W.'s_ visit to, 9-11.

Barbary States, corsairs of, 155.

Bard, Dr. Samuel, 185, 186.

Beaumarchais, Caron de, 94.

Beefsteak and Tripe Club, 10.

Belvoir, Fairfax estate, 7.

Bennington, Battle of, 92.

Bernard, John, quoted on _W_. in retirement, 234-236.

_Blackwood's Magazine_, 3.

Blair, John, 161.

Bland, Theodorick, letter of _W_. to, 131, 132.

Bonhomme Richard, the. _See_ Jones, John Paul.

Boston, port of, transferred to Salem, 58;
blockaded by _W_., 69;
evacuated by Howe, 72, 73;
_W.'s_ visit to, as President, 189, 190.

Boston Tea Party, 58.

Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, Lord, 53.

Boucher, Rev. Jonathan, 41.

Braddock, Edward, his career, 19, 20;
in America, 20;
attacks Fort Duquesne, and is defeated and killed, 21, 22; 255.

Bradford, William, 229.

Brant, Joseph, 92.

British troops, position of, at end of 1776, 83, 84, 85;
confined to New York City and Long Island, 86;
_W_. on maltreatment of prisoners by, 98;
field of operations of, transferred to South, 107,