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plain, 122 ; naval operations, 122, 123 ; penance of eight Canadians in Quebec on the anniversary of his defeat there, 124 ; Arnold raises the siege of Fort Stanwix, 150; wounded near Stillwater, 159; trea- son, 260 ; in Virginia, 270-272 ; snubbed by Ewald, 271 ; burns New London, 263. Augusta, Ga., occupied by the British and abandoned, 240; capitulates to the Americans, 270.

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Badger^ transport ship, taken by privateers and retaken, 237, 238.

Baltimore, Md., Congress retires to, 86.

Barnegat Inlet, the Triton captured and taken to, 236.

Barrington, Lord, speaks in the House of Commons, 29.

Barton, Lieutenant-Colonel William, captures General Prescott on Rhode Island, 217.

Baton Rouge, La., taken by the Spaniards, 252.

Battenkill, Riedesel advises Burgoyne to retreat behind the, 156. See Bennington.

Bauer, a chasseur, his gallant conduct, no, in.

Baum, Lieutenant-Colonel Friedrich, advances to Fort Miller, 142 ; sent to Bennington, 143 ; captures stores at Cambridge, Vt., and at San- coik, 144; letter to Burgoyne and reply, 144; second letter, 145 ; in- trenches himself at Bennington, is attacked, mortally wounded, and taken with his command, 146, 147.

Bavaria, the elector offers troops to England, 15.

Bayreuth. See Anspach-Bayreiith ; IVilht'hnina.

Beaufort, S. C, occupied by the British, 240, 241. ♦

Bedford, L. I., the American left wing turned, 63. See Long Island.

Beggarstown. See Gennantown.

Bennington, Vt., Baum's expedition to, \\z-\\l\ importance of the American victory there, 147, 152. See Baiim ; Breymantt.

Biel, Lieutenant Jacob, Rail's aid at Trenton, 93, 94.

Birmingham, N. J., Washington's army divided into two columns, 93. See Trenton.

Block, Lieutenant-Colonel, at Long Island, 62. Gren. Batt. von Block, see Grenadiers ; Regiment.

Blood money, in the treaty with Brunswick, 17-19; and in the treaties with Hanau and Waldeck, 20; but not in that with Cassel, 18; nor in that with Anspach, 20.

Bordentown, N. J., Donop at, 87 ; fugitives from Trenton escape to, 95.

Bose. See Regiment.

Boundbrook, N. J., surprised, 108-110; skirmish near, in, 112.

Brandenstein, a Waldeck deserter, living with the Indians, 252.

Brandywine (plan, 198), battle, 198-200.

Bremcrlehe, Hessians embarked at, 46.

Breymann, Lieutenant-Colonel Heinrich Christoph, ordered to support