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ritish, 90.
protests against abolishing slavery, 150.
Germantown, Pennsylvania, Wayne at, 82.
Gerry, Elbridge, at the Philadelphia convention, 147.
Gibault, Father, aids Clark, 8.
Gibbs, General, leads the British at New Orleans, 195.
severely wounded, 196.
Gibraltar, Dacres gives Hull a dinner at, 179.
Gibraltar of America, the, Quebec, 30, 35.
the little, Stony Point, 80, 88.
Gilmer, Enoch, spies out Ferguson, 100.
Gladstone, William Ewart, how the Constitution was regarded by, 155.
Gloucester, Virginia, Cornwallis plans to escape by way of, 132.
Graves, Admiral, forced to withdraw from Chesapeake Bay, 130.
Greene, Nathanael, 65.
Washington's right-hand man, 90.
the ability of, 105.
left the army for a time, 115.
defeated at Guilford, North Carolina, 123.
the death of, 147.
Grier, Sergeant, and his wife, with Arnold's expedition to Quebec,
22, 27.
Guerriere, the, a British frigate, destroyed by "Old Ironsides," 178.
Guilford, North Carolina, Lord Cornwallis defeats Greene at, 123.
H
Hale, Nathan, the patriot spy, 50-61.
volunteers to serve as a spy, 53.
receives his instructions from Washington, 53.
the parentage and the home of, 54.
the boyhood of, 54.
the education of, 54.
teaches school in New London, Connecticut, 54.
bids his pupils farewell, 55.
starts for Cambridge, 55.
the diary of, 55.
disguises himself, 56.
returns in safety from the British lines, but puts up at "Mother
Chick's," 57.
arrested, 57.
taken to New York, 58.
condemned to die, 59.
the dying speech of, 60.
hanged, 60.
Hamilton, Alexander, the address of, at Annapolis, 144.
at the Philadelphia convention, 146.
defends the Constitution, 154.
Hamilton, Henry, the "hair buyer," 4.
stirs up the savages, 11.
recaptures Vincennes, 11.
surrenders Vincennes to Clark, 16.
Hampton Roads, Virginia, De Grasse in, 129.
Harlem Heights, the patriots retreat to, 51.
Harrod, James, one of the leaders in Kentucky, 2.
Hartford, Connecticut, Lafayette visits, 206, 209.
Hartt, the naval yard of, in Boston, 170.
Harvard College, Lafayette attends commencement at, 205.
Heights of Abraham, the, Arnold climbs to, 30.
Wolfe climbs to, in 1759, 30.
Helm, Captain, a prisoner at Vincennes, 15.
Henry, Patrick, aids Clark, 5.
does not attend the Philadelphia convention, 147.
Hero's welcome, a, 199-216. See Lafayette.
Hessians,
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