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| federation, 539 ; first stage of the war, 546-573; Lexington and Concord, 546; siege of Boston, 550; New York campaign, 554; Washington's discouragement, 559; British in Philadelphia, 562; Burgoyne's campaign, 565; Valley Forge, 568; French alliance, 574-590; treaty, 574; Newport campaign, 575; conquest of the Illinois,
579; foreign officers, 582; conciliation, 586 ; Paul Jones's fight, 587 ; crisis in domestic affairs, 591-605; confederation delayed, 591; finances, 594, 598; paper money, 601; confederation completed, 604; bank, 605; end of the war, 606-618; operations, 606; Greene in the south, 609; French fleet, 612; surrender at Yorktown, 615; peace, 619-632; Parliament favorable, 619; negotiations, 621, 623; the Cincinnati, 626 ; Washington's retirement, 627; advantages and disadvantages, 629. — See also Army, Confederation, Congress, English, Independence, Loyalists, Militia, Navy, Officers, Taxation. |
| Rhode Island, Records, 17 ; explanation to the Lords of Trade, 49-52 ; government, 143 ; General Assembly, Proceedings of a Colonial Legislature, 173-174; question of taxation, 394-397; operations in, 575-578. — See also Government, New England, Providence. |
| Rhode Island Historical Society, Collections, 15. |
| Rhode Island Historical Tracts. — See Rider, S. S. |
| Ricord, F. W., and Nelson, W., Documents relating to the Colonial History of New Jersey, 13, 21, 166, 181. |
| Rider, S. S., Rhode Island Historical Tracts, 11, 360. |
| Riedesel, Baroness von, Letters and Memoirs, 21, 568; The Surrender of Burgoyne, 565-568. |
| Riots, in New Jersey, 80; Stamp Act,; in North Carolina, 426; "tea-party," 431; Revolutionary, 458; anti-Tory, 472. — See also Mobs. |
| Rivers, W. J., History of South Carolina, 98. |
| Rivington's Gazette, 461, 515. |
| Rochambeau, Count de, Memoirs, 18. |
| Rogers, Robert, Journals, 18. |
| Rowland, Kate Mason, Life of George Mason, 20. |
| Roxbury, condition of camp at, 552. |
| SABBATH, law to prevent breaking the; 208. — See also Religion. |
| Sabin, Joseph, Dictionary of Books relating to America, 22. |
| Sagas, Norse, a source, 1. — See also Vol. I. |
| Sailors. — See Navy. |
| St. Augustine, importance to the English, 318-320; besieged by the English, 340; receives runaway slaves, 341-344. |
| St. Paul s Parish, The Record of a Vestry Meeting, 212-214. |
| Salaries, a ground of dispute, 166-169. — See also Revenue. |
| Salem Gazette, Conflicting Accounts of Lexington and Concord, 546-550' 550. |
| Salzburgers. — See Germans. |
| Sands, R. C, John Paul Jones, 590. |
| Saratoga, British earthworks at, 2; surrender of Burgoyne, 565-568. |
| Sargent, Winthrop, Loyalist Poetry, 13; Letters of John Andrews, 433' Loyal Verses of Stansbury and Odell, 515. |
| Saunders, William L., Colonial Records of North Carolina, 13, 175, 192, 214, 248, 428. |
| Savannah, reception of Salzburg Germans, 114; business center, 126. |
| Scammell, Alexander, manuscript letter, 5, 463; A Soldier's Love-Letter, 461-463. |
| Scharf, J. Thomas, History of Maryland, 109. |
| Schenectady, taking of, 323, 337-339. |
| Schools, value of sources in, 3; list of histories for, 33. — See College. |
| Schuyler, Philip, kindness to Madame Riedesel, 568. |
| Seabury, Samuel.— See Beardsley, E. E. |
| Seeker, Thomas, A Plan for American Bishops, 289-290. |
| Second Continental Congress, The Necessity of Self-Defence, 442-445; activities, 525-530; degeneracy, 543-545. — See also Congress. |
| Secondary works, use of, 28, 32; list, 32-34. |
