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Waldeck, Frederick, Prince of, lets out troops, 3, 12 ; writes to the Earl of Suffolk, 15. See Numbers.

Waldeck Regiment, sent to the sea through Cassel, 46 ; joins the army, 75 ; a detachment attacked and taken, 107 ; embarked for Florida, touch at Jamaica, and arrive at Pensacola, 251 ; three companies sent to Baton Rouge are taken prisoners, Waldeckers taken on Lake Pontchartrain, 252 ; march to Mobile ; death of Colonel von Hanxle- den ; Pensacola besieged and taken, 253, 254. See Appendix B ; Regiment.

Wappoo Neck, fire opened on Charleston from, 244, 245.

Warner, Colonel Seth, at Hubbardton, 141.

Washington, Colonel William, at Guildford Court House, 269.

Washington, General George, commands the American army, its num- bers, 58 ; battle of Long Island, 62-68 ; retreat from Long Island, 68, 69; evacuates New York, 71 ; indignant with the New England militia, 72 ; skirmish near Manhattanville, 72 ; proposes to burn New York, 74; occupies the passes leading from Throg's Neck, 75; White Plains, action on Chatterton Hill, 76, 77; Washington describes certain American officers, 78 ; retreat, 78 ; wishes to abandon Fort Washington, but is overruled, 79 ; offers to attempt to save the garrison, but in vain, 82 ; retreats across New Jersey, 85 ; and across the Delaware, 86 ; praises the Hessians, 86 ; infor- mation of Howe's intention to march on Philadelphia, 86, 87 ; writes to Governor Trumbull, 87, n. ; crosses the Delaware, 92; Trenton, 93-96 ; retreats across the Delaware, 96 ; entertains prisoners, their opinion of him, loi, 102 ; orders the Hessian prisoners to be marched about Philadelphia, 104; tries to soothe the popular feeling towards them, 106 ; recrosses the Delaware and skirmishes with Lord Corn- wallis, 106 ; retreats from Trenton, action at Princeton, 107 ; author- ized to raise troops, the number on hand in March, 1777, 115; Wash- ington faces Sir William Howe in New Jersey in the summer of 1777, 197; Brandywine, 198-200; Germantown, 201-203 > unable to reinforce Fort Mercer, 208; Valley Forge, 211 ; Monmouth Court- House, 213, 214; approaching Springfield, 258; with Rochambeau before New York, 262 ; the American and French armies start for Virginia, 262, 276 ; march to Virginia, 277 ; the allied armies at Williamsburg, 277 ; siege of Yorktown, 277-281 ; Washington at- tempts to induce the Germans to desert, 286; his opposition to the practice of enlisting deserters, 287, 288.

Washington. See Fort Washijigton.

Wayne, Brigadier-General Anthony, at Brandywine, 199 ; surprised, 200 ; Stony Point, 226; joins Lafayette in Virginia, 273; part ef his bri- gade engaged near Williamsburg, 274 ; Green Spring, 274, 275.

Webster, Lieutenant-Colonel, at Guildford Court House, 268, 269.