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Napoleon Bonaparte blames the Landgraves of Hesse, 25.

Negroes, their condition in New England described by a Brunswick of- ficer, 186, 187; at Charleston, S. C, 250, 251 ; drag boats overland to operate on Cooper River, 248 ; taken by General Phillips on James River, 272.

Neversink Hills, the British retreat by the, 213.

Newark, N. J., expedition against, 256.

New Brunswick, N. J., occupied by the British, 85, 87, 107, no, 197; meeting of Ewald and Hamilton, 112, 113.

New London taken and burned by Benedict Arnold, 263.

New Orleans, Don Bernardo de Galvez, Spanish governor at, 252.

Newport, occupied by the British, mode of life, 215-218; capture of Gen- eral Prescott, 217; arrival of Anspachers, 218; unsuccessful attack by a French fleet and an American army, 218,219 ; evacuation, 220. See Estaing ; Lord Howe ; Percy; Pigot ; Prescott; Sir Henry Clin- ton; Sullivan.

New Rochelle, the British army near, 75.

New York, described, 70, 221-223 ; indefensible and occupied by the British, 71 ; fire, 73, 74; Fort Washington taken, 78-84 ; skirmishes near Kip's Bay, 301,;;. ; Manhattanville, 72; Courtland's Plantation and East Chester, 223-225 ; Paulus Hook, 227-229 ; Staten Island, 255; Hackensack, 256, 257 ; Fort Independence, 260-262 ; General von Knyphausen in command at New York, 255-257; Sir Henry Clinton expects to be attacked, 262, 263 ; New York evacuated, 282.

Nobility, Hessian officers not belonging to the, 44.

North Anna River, Lord Cornwallis at the, 272.

North Edisto River, the British fleet enters the, 244. See Chaileston.

North, Lord, speech in the House of Commons, 27, 28.

North Point passed by the French fleet, 218. See N'ewport.

Nova Scotia, Hessians encouraged to settle there after the war, 291.

Numbers of Germans sent to America, of recruits sent out, and of sol- diers who returned to Germany, 20, 21, 282,299, 300; estimated numbers of killed, of men who died of illness, and of deserters during the war, 300 ; German losses in various battles, 301 ; numbers in the first and second divisions of Brunswickers, 46, 119; of Hessians, 46, 75. (For the numbers of men engaged in various battles and expe- ditions, and of American and English killed and wounded, see the accounts of those battles and expeditions.)

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Ochsenfurth, mutiny of the Anspach and Bayreuth regiments at, 48, 49. Officers, American, mostly taken from civil life, 59 ; described by a Hes- sian colonel, 66, 67; beaten by Germans when prisoners, 66; certain