Page:The Hessians and the other German auxiliaries of Great Britain in the revolutionary war.djvu/333

 INDEX.

A.

Ackland, Major, wounded at Stillwater, 157.

Agnevv, General, skirmish near Dilworth,2oo; killed at Germantown,203.

American soldiers at Saratoga described by a Brunswick officer, 182, 183. See Officers.

American women. See Women.

Andre, Major John, executed, 260.

Anhalt-Zerbst, number of troops sent from, 20, 52, 300.

Anhalt-Zerbst, Frederick Augustus, Prince of, lets out troops, 3, 15 ; his character and absurdities, 12, 13; treaty with England, 15. See A^//;«- bers.

Anhalt-Zerbst regiment, its march to the sea, 52 ; riot at Zeulenrode, and desertion, 52 ; the commander of Quebec refuses to let it land, 52.

Anne. See Fort Anne.

Anspach, Charles Frederick William, Margrave of, his character and temper, 9-1 1.

Anspach-Bayreuth, number of inhabitants, 9 ; property of the Hohenzol- lern family, 9 ; recruiting system, 37 ; anecdote, 42. ^^^ Numbers.

Anspach-Bayreuth, Charles Alexander, Margrave of, lets out troops, 3, 15 ; his character and travels, 11 ; amount of subsidy received, 12; offers troops in 1775, 15 ; treaty made in 1776, 15 ; rides to Ochsen- furth to suppress the mutiny, 49 ; accompanies his soldiers to Holland, 49, 50; letter from Frederick the Great, 50, 51 ; sells hia margraviate to Prussia in 1791, 12. See Numbers.

Anspach-Bayreuth regiments, mutiny at Ochsenfurth, 48, 49 ; embarked in Holland, 50 ; recruits and chasseurs are stopped at Bendorf and return to Hanau, 51; their long passage, 51, 52; at Philadelphia these regiments are said to be unable to march, or untrustworthy, 212, 213 ; at Newport, 218 ; chasseurs carried to Europe in the dis- abled Anna, 243, 244; plundering of Hackensack, 256, 257; at York- town, 277-281 ; the Anspach chasseurs form part of the Hessian Jager Corps, 298.

Armand, Colonel, Chevalier (Marquis de la Rouerie), commanding Amer- icans and Indians, skirmishes near Courtland's Plantation and East Chester, 223, 224 ; enlists deserters, 288, 289 ; these desert back again, 290.

Arnold, General Benedict, commands the American fleet on Lake Cham-