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Germantown, Pa., battle of, 201-203.

Germany in the eighteenth century, 3-5.

Gloucester, Va., occupied by Lord Cornwallis, 276 ; skirmish between Tarleton and Lauzun, 278, 279; scheme of retreat from, 280.

Glover, Colonel John, his regiment manned the boats when Washington crossed the Delaware, 92.

Gohr, General von, kind to Seume, 39.

Gowanus Creek, L. I., Americans drowned in, 63.

Grant, Colonel, killed at Long Island, 68.

Grant, General, commanding the British in New Jersey, 86 ; his arrange- ment of troops, 87 ; his contempt for the Americans, 89, 98, «.

Grasse, Count de, prepares to enter Chesapeake Bay, 276; arrives there and fights a naval battle, 277. ^qq French Fleet ; Yorktown.

Graves, Admiral Samuel, naval battle off Chesapeake Bay, 277.

Gravesend, L. I., occupied by the Hessians, 60.

Green, Captain, aid to General Phillips, in the cellar with Baroness Rie- desel at Saratoga, offers assistance, 175.

Greene, Colonel Christopher, defends Fort Mercer at Redbank, 204- 206.

Greene, Major-General Nathaniel, opposes the evacuation of Fort Wash- ington, 79 ; evacuates Fort Lee, 85 ; commands the southern army, 266; retreats, 267; Battle of Guildford Court House, 267-269; Greene, although defeated at Camden, Ninety - six, and Eutaw Springs, overruns North and South Carolina and Georgia, 270.

Green Spring, battle of, 274, 275.

Grenadiers (Hessian), on Long Island, 59-64; on New York Island, 71, 301,;;.; skirmish near Manhattanville, 72; Chatterton Hill, 76, 77; at Bordentown, 87 ; occupy Philadelphia, 201 ; defeated at Redbank, 204-208 ; siege of Charleston, 243-251 ; embarked too late to assist Cornwallis, 263. '6q& Donop ; Regivunt. For the various battalions see Appendix B, 297.

Grothausen, Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm von, perhaps the author of the account of the operations on Long Island, translated, 59-64; runs away at Trenton, 95 ; blamed by Ewald, 98, n. ; killed at the second battle of Trenton, 106.

Guildford Court House, N. C, battle, 267-269.

Guilford, Conn., expedition from, to Sag Harbor, 225.

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Hackensack, N. J., pillaged and burned, 256, 257.

Haddonfield, N. J., the Hessians i^ass through it on their way to Fort

Mercer, 204; and in the retreat across New Jersey, 213. Hamilton, Brigadier-General, in Burgoyne's army, at a council of war,

162-169. Hamilton, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander, snubbed by Captain Ewald,

112, 113.