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 INDEX.

327

Weedoii, Brigadier-General George, at Gloucester, Va., 278,

West Florida, operations in, 251, 254.

White Plains, 1"^^. Y., occupied by Washington, 75, 76 ; action at Chatter- ton Hill, 76, 77 ; Washington retreats, 78.

Whitehall, N. Y., its position, 139 ; American vessels captured or burned, 141.

Wiederhold, Lieutenant Andreas, fords the Bronx, 77 ; Fort Washing- ton, 80, 8r ; on picket duty at Trenton, 91 ; attacked, 93 ; reports to Colonel Rail, 94 ; wades in the Delaware, 100, 11. ; dines with Wash- ington, loi, 102 ; at Dumfries and Fredericksburg, love affair, 103, 104 ; dislikes Philadelphia, 209 ; commissioned as captain ; embarks for Quebec ; storm and capture, 230-236 ; exchanged, 237.

Wilhelmina, Margravin of Bayreuth, her memoirs, 9.

William. See Hesse-Ha7iau.

Williamsburg, Va., engagement near, 274 ; allied armies at, 277.

Willoe, Captain, with Baroness Riedesel on the Isle aux Sonnettes, 134,

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Wilmington, Del., occupied by the British fleet and army, 200.

Wilmington, N. C, Lord Cornwallis marches to, 270 ; held by the British in the autumn of 1781, 270.

Winter Hill, near Cambridge, Mass., occupied by German prisoners, 1S9.

Wissenbach. See Regiment.

Wolfenbiittel, near Brunswick, Baroness Riedesel starts from, 126.

Women in New England described by a Brunswick officer, 184-187 ; in Boston rude to Baroness Riedesel, 191 ; in New York described by a Hessian, 222 ; in Charleston, 250.

Wreden, Captain Carl August von, at Long Island, d^ ; in a skirmish near Raritan Landing, iii; at Brandywine, decorated, 199; com- plimented by Sir William Plowe, 211.

Wurmb, Lieutenant-Colonel Ludwig Johann Adam von, commands the chasseurs, 108; Germantown, 201, ;/., 202; skirmishes near New York, 223, 224 ; fight near Fort Independence, 260-262 ; warns Sir Henry Clinton that Washington is marching to Virginia, 262, 263.

Wiirtemberg, the Duke of, offers troops to England, 15, 16; laws against desertion, 41.

Wiirzburg, the Bishop of, owner of the town of Ochsenfurth, 48 ; sends cavalry to suppress the mutiny there, 49.

Wynesborough, Lord Cornwallis at, 265.

Y.

Yorktown, Va., occupied by Lord Cornwallis, 276 ; approach of the Americans and French, strength of the armies, 276, 277 ; skirmish at Gloucester between Tarleton and de Lauzun, 278, 279 ; Major Coch- rane, 279; redoubts stormed; sortie, 279, 280 ; Lord Cornwallis at- tempts to cross the York River, 280 ; surrender, 280, 281.

Young's House, expedition against, 256.

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