Royal Ethiopian Regiment in

status of colonial soldiers in

see also specific battles

Army, Continental, see Continental Army

Arnold, Benedict

in British Army

kidnapping attempt on

as traitor

Arnold, Peggy Shippen

Articles of Confederation

GW’s critique of

Asbury, Francis

Asgill, Charles

Asgill, Lady

Asia (warship)

Associated Loyalists

Atlantic Ocean

attorney general

Aurora

Austin (slave)

Austin, Jonathan Loring

Austria

Bache, Benjamin Franklin

Bache, Sarah Franklin

Bailyn, Bernard

Baker, John

Baldwin, Abraham

Ball, Joseph (grandfather)

Ball, Joseph (uncle)

Ball, Mary Johnson (grandmother)

Baltimore, Charles Calvert, Lord

Baltimore, Md.

Continental Congress in

bancomania

Bank of Alexandria

Bank of England

Bank of the United States

banks

creation of new

Baptist Church

Barbados

Barbary pirates

Barbé-Marbois, François

Bard, John

Bard, Samuel

Barlow, Joel

Barras, Count de

Bassett, Anna Maria Dandridge (sister-in-law)

Bassett, Burwell (brother-in-law)

Bassett, Burwell, Jr.

Bassett, Fanny, see Washington, Fanny Bassett

Bastille, fall of

Baurmeister, Carl Leopold

Beckley, John

Beckwith, George

Bedford, Gunning

Belvoir

Bemis Heights, Battle of

Benedict, Abner

Berkeley Springs, W.Va.

Bermuda

Betty (slave)

Biddle, Clement

Bingham, Anne Willing

Bingham, William

Bishop, Thomas

blacks:

education of

free

Blair, John

Blanchard, Claude

Bland, Martha Daingerfield

Bland, Theodorick

Blockade, The

Blue Ridge Mountains

Blueskin (horse)

Board of Trade, British

Board of War

Bonhomme Richard (ship)

Boston, Mass.

siege of

Boston Gazette

Boston Harbor

Boston Massacre

Boston Port Bill

Boston Sailcloth Manufactory

Boston Tea Party

Botetourt, Lord

Boucher, Jonathan

Boudinot, Elias

Boudinot, Elisha

Bouquet, Henry

Bowie, John

Braddock, Edward

Braddock’s Field

Bradford, William

Brady, Patricia

Brandywine Creek, Battle of

Brant, Joseph

Breed’s Hill, see Bunker Hill, Battle of

Bréhan, Marquise de

Broadwater, Charles

Brooklyn

Brooklyn (Long Island), Battle of

Brooklyn Heights

Brown, Elias

Brown, Gustavus Richard

Brown, Philip

Brown University (Rhode Island College)

Bryan, Helen

Buchanan, Walter

Bullskin Plantation

Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill), Battle of

Burgoyne, John

Saratoga defeat of

Burke, Edmund

Burr, Aaron

Bush, Benjamin

Butler, James

Butler, Pierce

Butler, Richard

Butler, Walter

Cabot, George

Cadwalader, John

Caesar (slave)

Callender, James T.

Calvert, Benedict

Calvert, Charles

Cambridge, Mass.

Camden, Battle of

Campbell, Christiana

Canada

border with

fishing rights and

French

French and Indian War in

French Catholics in

canals

Capitol, U.S.

Caribbean

War of Jenkins’ Ear in

Carleton, Sir Guy

Carlisle, Pa.

Carlyle & Adam

Caroline (slave)

Carrington, Edward

Carrington, Elizabeth Ambler

Cartagena

Carter, Charles

Carter, Charles, Jr.

Cary, Mary

Cary, Robert

Cary, Wilson

Caswell, Richard

Catawba nation

Catherine the Great, empress of Russia

Cato (Addison)

“Catullus,”

Cayenne (French Guiana)

Cayuga nation

“Centinel,”

Cerberus (frigate)

Chamberlayne, Richard

Champe, John

Charles II, king of England

Charleston, S.C.

Charlestown, Mass.

Charlotte (slave)

Charlton, John

Chastellux, Chevalier de

Chateaubriand, François-Auguste-René de

checks and balances

Cherokee nation

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Chesapeake Bay

Chester, Pa.

Chew, Benjamin

Chovet, Abraham

Church of England (Anglican Church)

Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius

“Cinna,”

circuit courts

“Circular to State Governments,”

City Tavern

civil liberties

Civil War, American

Clarkson, Thomas

Claypoole, David

Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser

Clermont-Crèvecoeur, Count de

Clinton, George

Clinton, Sir Henry

at Battle of Monmouth

on Cowpens disaster

kidnap attempt on

recall of

in siege of Charleston

Closen, Ludwig von, Baron

Clymer, George

Coast Guard

Cobb, David, Jr.

Cobbett, William

Cochran, John

Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) (1774)

Coke, Thomas

College of New Jersey (Princeton University)

College of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania)

College of William and Mary

Columbian Magazine

Columbia University (King’s College)

commerce

Committee of Public Safety

Common Sense (Paine)

Concord, Mass.

Congregational Church

Congregation Yeshuat Israel

Congress, Confederation

Constitutional Convention approved by

Constitution presented to

departments of

Congress, U.S.

antislavery petitions in

Bill of Rights in

capital construction and

debate over proportional vs. equal representation in

departments of

enlarged powers proposed for

first, delay in opening of

GW’s annual addresses to

GW’s election announced by

GW’s final address to

GW’s inauguration and

GW’s relationship with

Hamilton’s Report on Manufactures to

Hamilton’s Report on Public Credit to

on Indian warfare

Jay Treaty and

powers reserved for

presidential veto and

proportional representation and

site in new federal city for

slavery and

Connecticut

Constitution ratified by

volunteer troops from

Connecticut Continentals

Constitution, British

Constitution, U.S.

advice and consent in

amendment process for

annual address mandated by

Article I of

Article II of

bank bill and

bicameral legislature in

Bill of Rights and

emergency government sessions and

executive branch in

Federalist vs. Republican views of

first elections seen as support for

GW’s support for

Jefferson’s ambivalence toward

on judiciary

as living and open-ended document

necessary and proper clause of

preamble to

proportional representation in

ratification of

slavery in

strict constructionists and

treaty-making powers in

tripartite government in

Twenty-second Amendment of

two-thirds rule of

Whiskey Rebellion as test of

Constitutional Convention

GW as president of

GW’s hesitation about

secrecy rule of

on slavery

Continental Army

Articles of Confederation and

blacks in

bounties for

casualties in

decrease in support for

desertions and short-term enlistments in

discipline in

early formation of

generals of

gunpowder and weapons shortage for

GW’s command of

GW’s frustrations with

GW’s insistence on smallpox inoculations for

GW’s Life Guard in

heroism of

illness in

long-term enlistments for