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 INDEX. 323

Saint Augustine, Fla., General Prevost arrives at Savannah from, 240.

Saint-Clair, Major-General Arthur, abandons Fort Ticonderoga, 140 ; fight at Hubbardton, 141.

Saint Ives, Cornwall, the disabled Anna arrives at, 244.

Saint-Leger, Colonel Barry, expedition to Fort Stanwix and battle of Oriskany, 148, 149; a company of Hessians from Hanau with him, 149, ;/. ; retreat, 150.

Sancoik, Vt., stores captured by Baum, letter from Baum to Burgoyne, 144.

Santa Rosa Island. See Pensacola.

Saratoga, N. Y. [plan, 163), Americans retreat to, 142 ; British retreat to, 161 ; councils of war, negotiations and capitulation, 162-169; Baroness Riedesel, 170-179; terms of capitulation not fulfilled, 180, 181 ; British and Brunswickers lay down their arms, Brunswick colors concealed, 181, 182; appearance of American officers and soldiers, 182, 183 ; Gates receives the British and Brunswick officers, 183 ; Generals Schuyler and Burgoyne and Baroness Riedesel, 183, 184.

Savannah, Ga., taken by the British and Hessians, 240 ; attacked by the French and Americans, 242 ; still held by the British in the autumn of 1781, 270.

Saville, Sir George, speaks in the House of Commons, 30.

Schiller, Johann Thomas Friedrick, his indignation at the letting of troops ; tragedy of Cabale und Liebe, 25, 26.

Schlieff'en, minister to the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, answers Mirabeau and Raynal, 22, 23 ; Heister writes to him concerning Trenton, 96; Baroness Riedesel meets him in London, 129.

Schlotheim, Fraiilein von, mistress of the Count of Hesse-Hanau, 7.

Schldzer''s Briefivechsel, the most influential German periodical of its time, favorable to the British, 21.

Schmidt, Major-General Martin Conrad, commands a column at the taking of Fort Washington, 80 ; mentioned in general orders, 83.

Schuyler, Major-General Philip, his civility to Baroness Riedesel and to General Burgoyne, 183, 184; his daughter, Mrs. Carter, 191, 192.

Schuylerville, Burgoyne's army crosses the Hudson at, 151.

Scott, Colonel, said to have set fire to New York, 74.

Seume, Johann Gottfried, forcibly enlisted, 38 ; at Ziegenhayn, his com- panions and mutiny, 39, 40 ; life on a transport ship, 56, 57.

Seymour, Mr., speaks in the House of Commons, 29, 30.

Sharpshooters. See Chasseurs ; Riflemen.

Shelburne, Earl of, speaks in the House of Lords, 34.

Shelter Island, inhabitants afraid of the Hessians, 215.

Simon's Island, S. C, British disembarked at, 244.

Simcoe, Lieutenant-Colonel, skirmish near East Chester, 223, 225; out- wits Baron Steuben, 273; engagement near Williamsburg, 274;