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Congreve, Captain, wounded at Flatbush, 60.

Connecticut Farms, N.J. See Springfield.

Cook's Ford, Va., Lord Cornwallis at, 272.

Cornwallis, Charles, Earl of, at Flatbush, 62; at Fort Washington, takes the redoubt on Laurel Hill, 80 ; in command in New Jersey, ^ praises the conduct of Rail's brigade at Fort Washington, 88; his opinion of the surprise at Trenton, 97, 98; advance on Trenton, 106 Washington escapes, 107; attack on Boundbrook, 108-110; Brandy wine, 198-200; occupies Wilmington, Del., 200; Philadelphia, 201 battle of Germantown, 203 ; takes Fort Mifflin, and destroys For Mercer, 208; harsh policy, 256; campaign in South Carolina, 265 Cowpens, 266; Guildford Court House, 267-269; retreats to Wil mington, N. C, 270; arrives at Petersburg, 272; crosses the James and advances to Cook's Ford, 272; retreats to Williamsburg, 273 274; ordered to send three thousand men to New York, retreats towards Portsmouth, 274-276; battle of Green Spring, 274, 275 orders countermanded, 276; occupies Yorktown and Gloucester, 276; siege and surrender, 277-281 ; the fate of the war decided, 282

Courtland's Plantation, skirmish near, 223.

Courtland's Reach, American and French armies at, 262.

Cow Bay, L. I., expedition to, 225.

Crown Point occupied and abandoned by Sir Guy Carleton, 123.

Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of, commands Hessians in 1745 ; they refuse to fight, 2.

Cumberland, Henry Frederick, Duke of, speaks in the House of Lords, 34-

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Dechow, Major von, snubbed by Colonel Rail at Trenton, 89 ; wounded and taken, 95.

Declaration of Independence, partly a result of the employment of Hes- sians, 35, 36, 298.

Desertion, precautions against it in Wiirtemberg and Hesse, 41 ; in Ans- pach, 42; of recruits, 42, 43; from Burgoyne's army, 155, 156, 287, 289, 290; deserters to be scalped, 138; in New Jersey, 213; the subject generally considered, 285-291 ; punishment of a deserter near Cambridge, Mass., 289 ; guess of the author as to numbers, 300.

Deux Ponts, Count de, conversation with Ewald concerning the treat- ment of the Germans by the British, 285.

Dickson, Lieutenant-Colonel, in command at Baton Rouge, surrenders, 252.

Dilworth, skirmish, 199, 200.

Doehla, Anspach musketeer, his account of the plundering of Hacken- sack, N.J., 257.

Donop, Colonel Carl Emil Kurt von, commanding grenadiers and chas- seurs on Long Island, 59-64; crosses to New York Island, 71 ; his account of the fire in New York, 74; at Bordentown, 87; sends a