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INDEX.

Lafayette, Major-General Marie Paul Joseph Roch Ives Gilbert de Mo- tier, Marquis de, meets Baroness Riedesel, 193, J94; wounded att Brandywine, 199; escapes Sir William Howe (Barren Hill), 211 ; marches to Virginia, 271 ; retreats to the Rappahannock, 273; re- turns following Cornwallis, 273, 274; Green Spring, 274, 275 ; York- town, 277-281.

Laurel Hill, a redoubt on, 79 ; taken by Lord Cornwallis, 80. See Fort Washington.

Lauzun, Armand Louis de Gontaut Biron, Duke de, commanding a. legion near Gloucester, Va., skirmishes with Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton, 278, 279.

Lee, Major-General Charles, disobeys Washington, 85 ; misbehaves at Monmouth Court House, 213, 214.

Lee, Major Henry, surprises and abandons Paulus Hook, 227, 228; at Springfield, N. J., 259; routs a party of Tories, 267; Guildford Court House, 268, 269.

Lee. See Fort Lee.

Leslie, General A., in command at Princeton, N. J., 91 ; sails to Virginia and South Carolina, 265 ; joins Lord Cornwallis, 267 ; Guildford Court House, 268, 269.

Lessing, Gottlieb Ephraim, librarian to the Duke of Brunswick, 8.

Levy money paid to the Duke of Brunswick, 17; to the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, 19.

Lincoln, Major-General Benjamin, not at the battle of Stillwater, 159; threatens Savannah and returns to Charleston, 240 ; action at Stono Ferry, 241 ; joins D'Estaing in attacking Savannah, but is repulsed, 242; Charleston threatened by Sir Henry Clinton, 243, 244; inac- tivity of Lincoln, 245 ; siege and surrender, 244-250.

Linsingen. See Grenadiers.

Little Egg Harbor, the Triton captured and taken into, 236, 237.

Long Island {plan, 63), invaded by the British and Hessians, 59 ; de- scription, 61 ; skirmishing, 60-62; battle, 62-68 ; the Americans re- treat to New York, 68, 69 ; expeditions to Long Island, 225.

Loray, Captain Friedrich Heinrich, at the battle of Long Island, 63.

Lords, debate in the House of, 30-35.

Lossberg, Lieutenant -General Friedrich Wilhelm (.') von, supersedes Knyphausen in 1782, 282. See Regiment.

Louisiana, operations in, 252.

Luttrell, Hon. James, speaks in the House of Commons, 30.

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MacCrea, Jane, killed by Indians, 138.

MacKonkey's Ferry, Washington crosses the Delaware, 92.