maintaining unity in
militias in
as model for new country
morale problems in
move south by
music in
mutinies in
in Newport approach
northern department of
origins of
pay not given to
prisoners from
prisoners treated humanely by
reenlistments for
sanitary conditions for
size of
southern department of
Steuben’s training of
supply shortages for
uniforms for
see also specific battles
Continental Association
Continental Congress
see also First Continental Congress; Second Continental Congress
Conway, Richard
Conway, Thomas
Conway “Cabal,”
Cooper, Myles
Corbin, Richard
Cornwallis, Charles, Lord
in siege of Charleston
at Yorktown
cotton gin
Cowpens, S.C.
Craik, James
Crawford, William
credit:
America’s lack of
federal
Creek Nation
Cresswell, Nicholas
Crisis, The (Paine)
Cromwell, Oliver
Crow, Hiland
Cunliffe, Marcus
Cupid (slave)
Curwen, Samuel
Cushing, Thomas
Cushing, William
Custis, Daniel Parke
Custis, Eleanor “Nelly” Calvert (stepdaughter-in-law)
remarriage to David Stuart of
Custis, Eleanor Parke “Nelly” (step-granddaughter)
education of
on GW
GW and Martha’s adoption of
marriage of, to Lawrence Lewis
portraits of
Custis, Elizabeth Parke (step-granddaughter)
Custis, Frances Parke “Fidelia,”
Custis, George Washington Parke “Washy” (step-grandson)
difficult behavior of
education of
on GW
GW and Martha’s adoption of
portraits of
Custis, Jack “Black Jack,”
Custis, John
Custis, John Parke “Jacky” (stepson)
as aide at Yorktown
children of
courtship and marriage of
death of
difficult behavior of
education of
GW appreciated by
GW cheated by
on Patsy’s death
portraits of
smallpox inoculation of
Custis, Martha Parke (step-granddaughter)
Custis, Martha Parke “Patsy” (stepdaughter)
death of
epilepsy and other health problems of
portraits of
Custis estate
customs service
customs taxes
Cutler, Manasseh
Cyrus (slave)
Dagworthy, John
Dalby, Philip
Dalzell, Lee Baldwin
Dalzell, Robert F., Jr.
Dandridge, Ann
Dandridge, Bartholomew
Dandridge, Frances Jones
Dandridge, John
Danton, Georges Jacques
Davies, Samuel
Davis, Thomas
Davis, Tom (slave)
Deane, Silas
debt
among colonists
federal
funded
government
of GW
imprisonment for
public
state, federal assumption of
war
wartime promissory notes and
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Declaratory Act (1766)
defense, national
deism
DeLancey, James
Delaware:
at Constitutional Convention
Constitution ratified by
Delaware Bay
Delaware nation
Delaware River
Delaware Society for Promoting Domestic Manufacturers
Democratic-Republican Societies
Demont, William
Denny, Ebenezer
deportations
d’Estaing, Jean Baptiste
Deux-Ponts, Guillaume de
Dick, Elisha Cullen
Dickinson, John
Digby, Robert
Dinwiddie, Robert
Discourses on Davila (Adams)
district courts
Dixon, Jeremiah
Dogue Run farm
Doll (slave)
Donald, Alexander
Donop, Colonel von
Dorchester Heights
Drowne, Solomon
Duane, James
Duane, William
Duer, William
Dulany, Elizabeth French
Dumas, Count de
Dunlap, William
Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of
Norfolk, Va. torched by
Dunn, Arthur
Duquesne, Marquis de
Durham boats
duties, import
Dyer, Eliphalet
Eagle (ship)
East India Company
East Indies
East River
Echard, Susan R.
Edict of Fraternity
Edwin, David
Ehlers, John Christian
elections:
of 1789
of 1792
of 1796
of 1800
Electoral College
Elizabethtown, N.J.
Ellicott, Andrew
Ellis, Joseph
Ellsworth, Oliver
Embuscade (ship)
Emerson, William
England
as America’s antithesis
farewell address and
prewar debt to
Spain’s military confrontation with
see also Great Britain
English Channel
Enlightenment
American Revolution in context of
rationalism in
Enys, John
Episcopal Church
Erskine, Sir William
Eskridge, George
Estates-General, French
Evans, Israel
Evans, Joshua
Evans, Oliver
Ewald, Johann
Ewing, James excise taxes executive branch
under Articles of Confederation
under Constitution
domestic policy and
economic policy and
equality between legislative and
foreign policy and
war powers of
Fabius
Fagan, John
Fairfax, Bryan
Fairfax, George William
death of
departure for England of
GW’s friendship with
Fairfax, Sarah Cary “Sally,”
departure for England of
GW’s friendship with
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, sixth Baron
Fairfax, William
Fairfax County Committee
Fairfax family
Fairfax Independent Company
Fairfax Resolves
Fallen Timbers, Battle of
Falmouth, Mass.
“Farewell Address to the Armies of the United States,”
“Farmer Refuted, The” (Hamilton)
Fauchet, Jean-Antoine
Faulkner, William
Fauntleroy, Elizabeth “Betsy,”
Fauntleroy, William
Fauquier, Francis
federal deficit
Federal District (Washington, D.C.)
Federal Gazette
Federal Hall
federalism
vs. fear of centralized power
fear of chaos and
in GW’s farewell address to armies
Federalist, The (Hamilton, Madison, and Jay)
Federalists
Adams and
Alien and Sedition Acts and
as antislavery party
in 1800 election
envoy to Britain sought by
executive power and
French Revolution feared by
GW in support of
GW’s death and
in GW’s second-term cabinet
High
high society and
hopes for GW’s continuance in office by
on Jay Treaty
Martha Washington as
representational government and
on Reynolds scandal
federal vs. state power
Fenno, John
Ferguson, Patrick
Ferry Farm
Fersen, Axel von, Count
Field, Robert
Findley, William
First Continental Congress
independence not goal of
First Maryland Regiment
Fischer, David Hackett
Fishbourn, Benjamin
Fishkill, N.Y.
Fithian, Philip
Fitzgerald, John
Fitzhugh, William
Flexner, James T.
Florida
East
Forbes, Eleanor
Forbes, Gilbert
Forbes, John
Ford, Theodosia
Ford, West
foreign policy
Forks of the Ohio
Fort Cumberland
Fort Dinwiddie
Fort Duquesne
Fort George
Fort Le Boeuf
Fort Lee
Fort Necessity
Fort Pitt
Fort Ticonderoga
British capture of
weapons from
Fort Washington
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Fourth of July
Fox, Charles James
France
Adams’s diplomatic overtures toward
American alliance with
American independence recognized by
American ships seized by
America’s relationship with
antislavery sentiment in
army of