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 324 INDEX.

crosses James River before the battle of Green Spring, 274; Glou- cester, 278.

Sing Sing, American advanced guard at, 260.

Skene, Governor Philip, accompanies Baum to Bennington, 144.

Skenesborough. See Whitehall.

Skibback Creek. See Germantown.

Sobbe, Lieutenant Christian, of the Regiment von Knyphausen, a pris- oner at Fredericksburg, 103.

Solebay, the frigate, retakes the Badger, 238.

Sonnettes, Isle aux, Baroness Riedesel at, 134, 135.

Southerland, Lieutenant-Colonel, sent by Burgoyne to build a bridge over the Hudson and recalled, 162.

Sutherland, Major, commanding at Paulus Hook, refuses to yield, 228.

Spain declares war on England ; operations in Louisiana and West

Florida, 252-254.

_. ,,^1 iTi T--i-,r one of these commands the German

bpecht, Colonel [ohann Iriednch,, , ,. • .1 11^.,

„^ . \ . r^ y, T^ detachments m the second battle

Speth, Lieutenant-Colonel Lrnst-i ,.-,,, o .l

'^, , . „,.,, , near Stillwater, IS7, n. ; bpeth

Ludwisf Wilhelm von,, , ■ o

° L taken prisoner, 158.

Springfield, N. J., actions at, 258, 259.

Spyt den Duyvel. See Coiirtlaiid s Plantation ; Coiirtland s Reach ; Fort Independence.

Stade, Brunswickers embarked at, 46, 119.

Stark, John, commands the Americans at Bennington, 146, 147.

Staten Island, Hessians land, 58 ; attack of Lord Stirling, 255 ; British retreat to, 260. See Springfield.

Staunton, Va., Brunswick prisoners near, 196, n.

Sterling, Colonel, at the taking of Fort Washington, 80.

Steuben, Major-General Friedrich Wilhelm von, writes to Schlozer's Briefwechsel, 21 ; in Virginia, 270 ; outwitted by Lieutenant-Colonel Simcoe, 273 ; orders German deserters back to their regiments, 290.

Stillwater, N. Y., engagement near, at Freeman's Farm, 152, 153 ; recon- noissance and second battle of, 156-160.

Stirling, General William Alexander (called) Earl of, is taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island, 63 ; described, 64, 66, 67 ; detached, 85 ; at Trenton, 95 ; politeness to prisoners, loi ; his account of the numbers in Washington's army at Trenton considered, loi, n. ; skirmish, 197 ; supports Lee's attack on Paulus Hook, 227, 228; at- tacks Staten Island, 255 ; at Elizabethtown Point, 258.

Stirn, Major-General Johann Daniel, mentioned in general orders after the storming of Fort Washington, 83.

Stockbridge Indians defeated and killed, 223-225.

Stono Ferry, fight at, 241.

Subsidies received by the Prince of Hesse- Hanau, 7 ; the Duke of Bruns- wick, 8, 17; the Margrave of Anspach-Bayreuth, 12; the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, 19 ; total amount of subsidies, 282, 283.