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Suffolk, Earl of, content with Colonel Faucitt's treaties, 14; defends

them in the House of Lords, 33; insists on von Heister's recall,

114. Sullivan, Major-General John, captured at Long Island and described by

Colonel von Heeringen, 66; at Trenton, 93-96; Brandyvvine, 198,

199 ; Newport, 218, 219. Sumter, Lieutenant-Colonel, surprised by Tarleton, 265.

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Tarleton, Lieutenant-Colonel Bannastre, surprises Sumter, 265 ; defeated at Cowpens, 266, 267; raid to Charlottesville, 272, 273; skirmish with Lauzun, 278, 279.

Taxes, remitted by the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, 6 ; by the Count of Hesse-Hanau, 8.

Throg's Neck, the British land at, 75.

Tories (Provincials), with Baum, escape from Bennington, 146; with St. Leger, 148 ; leave Philadelphia, 212 ; leave Newport, 220 ; at Paulus Hook, 227, 228 ; with the expedition to Charleston, 243 ; at Pensa- cola, 251-254; routed in North Carolina, 267.

Trenton, N. J. {plan, 93), occupied by a Hessian brigade, 87 ; the town described ; arrangement of troops, 88 ; attack, 90 ; surprise, battle and surrender, 93-96 ; importance of the affair, 96-99. See Rail ; Washtttoton.

Triton, the brig, carrying a part of the Regiment von Knyphausen, storm and capture, 230-237. See Wiedei-hold.

Trois Rivieres, Riedesel's winter quarters at, 123 ; festivities, 125 ; Bar- oness Riedesel, 134.

Triimbach. See Regivie/tt.

Trumbull, Jonathan, Governor of Connecticut, letter to him from Wash- ington concerning Trenton, 87, n.

Tybee Island, the British fleet at, 244.

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Uniforms of the Hessian chasseurs, 61 ; of the Brunswick troops, 119, 124, 145.

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Valcour Island, Lake Champlain, naval battle near, 122, 123.

Valley Forge, Washington at, 211.

Van Doeren's House, the Hessian chasseurs near, at the battle of Ger- mantown, 202.

Vaughan, General William, his expedition up the Hudson, 155 ; its in- fluences on the terms granted by Gates to Burgoyne, 166, n.

Viomenil, Major-General Baron de, storms a redoubt at Yorktown, 279, 280.

Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de, letter to him from Frederick the Great, 24, 25.