Authors: A. J. Langguth
British slaughtering cows: Fleming,
Yours
, 58–59.
“. . . amazing good natured.”:
Thatcher,
Hewes.
“exceedingly dirty and nasty people”:
Washington,
Writings
, ed. Fitzpatrick, III, 433.
Washington did not whip slaves: Kitman, 54.
cider confiscated: “Orderly Book of Camp at Cambridge.”
“The general does not mean . . .”:
Ibid., 6.
“He is a queer creature . . .”:
Willard, 46.
Church’s treason: Freeman, III, 545–48.
Church examines Attucks: Sibley, XIII.
“. . . or I perish.”:
Freeman, III, 548.
Church’s sister:
French, 151.
Church claims to be gleaning information: Goss, I, 207–8.
Revere saw Church: Tourtellot, 227–28.
Hutchinson’s report on Church: Sibley, XIII, 384.
Church allowed to ride: Forbes, 285.
Army pay: Kitman, 29.
holdovers away on furlough: Lecky, 232.
“the mild general”:
Ketchum,
Decisive
, 213.
Howe had written home: George III,
Correspondence with North
, II, 13.
“Sir William, he . . .”:
Ketchum,
Decisive
, 36.
Arnold’s expenses disallowed: Boylan, 46–47.
Catholic population: Pemberton, 233.
a new Inquisition:
Wandell, 42.
“Let us run together . . .”:
Freeman, III, 536.
“The Great American Congress . . .”:
Ibid., 533.
“the sweepings of the streets”:
Wandell, 44.
“You will die . . .”:
Ibid., 45.
eating dog:
Arnold, 67.
eating duck: Ibid., 57.
Greer’s wife: Ibid., 66.
sickness drops men to 650: Ibid., 60.
“. . . force and energy?”:
John and Abigail Adams, 113.
“To the storming . . .”:
Arnold, 80.
“We shall be in the fort . . .”:
Wandell, 50.
Burr tries to drag Montgomery: Lomask, 41.
“. . . enter it in triumph.”:
Arnold, 84.
“I will not execute you now.”:
Dorson, 46.
“I tremble . . .”:
Alsop, 32.
Bonvouloir:
Ibid., 14–24.
“Mr. Straham . . .”:
Ronald Clark, 276.
“Everyone here is a soldier. . . .”:
Alsop, 31.
“America is the hope . . .”:
Ibid., 35.
“England is the natural enemy . . .”:
Ibid., 32.
Washington on Ethan Allen: Scheer and Rankin, 127.
“Men, I do not know . . .”:
Ibid., 113.
“bring on a rumpus . . .”:
Fleming,
Affectionately Yours
, 80.
Washington had read Burgoyne’s letter: Ibid., March 31, 1776.
Washington writing about parapets: Ibid., Feb. 1, 1776.
Barrels filled with dirt:
Heath, 32–33.
“. . . committed suicide.”:
Montross, 134.
“. . . dog in a dancing school.”:
Scheer and Rankin, 194.
“Naso”:
Burke Davis,
Washington
, 18.
“Boiling Water”:
Patterson, 40.
“Sir, I will never give Your Majesty . . .”:
Walpole, I, 404–5.
John Adams on Lee: Miller,
Triumph
, 70.
Lee borrows 15 pounds: Alden, 73.
“We want you at N. York . . .”:
Lee,
Papers
, I, 312.
“Colonel, I see . . .”:
Ibid., 154.
Paine’s mother a shrew: Edwards, 5.
God was too good: Conway, I, 11.
the Headstrong Book:
Connell, 18.
Paine’s eyes and women: Hawke,
Paine
, 14.
Elizabeth Paine: Edwards, 16.
“. . . husband or an oppressor”: Conway, I, 45–46.
“I rejected . . .”:
Paine, 44.
Paine longed for independence: Wills, 330.
“O ye that love mankind! . . .”:
Paine, 50.
Paine and John Adams: John Adams,
Diary
, III, 333–34.
“a better hand . . .”:
Scheer and Rankin, 168.
Jefferson receives
Common Sense:
Malone, I, 217.
“The blood of the slain . . .”:
Paine, 40.
Paine donates royalties: Conway, I, 69.
Regulators:
Montross, 134.
South Carolina sentiment turns: Conway, I, 78.
Virginia instructions: Malone, I, 217.
Harrison’s joke: Montross, 131.
“Defeated most ignominously. . . .”: Ibid., 139.
“created as ourselves”:
Maier,
Old
, 189.
Lee’s mutilated hand: Wills, 3.
Rutledge hoped for delay: Burnett,
Letters
, I, 476–77.
Adams-Jefferson exchange: Ibid., 541n.
Jefferson carried by slave: Randall, I, 11.
Jefferson’s inheritance: Malone, I, 32; Page Smith,
Jefferson
, 9.
“filled the college with children”: Ibid., 15.
Jefferson did not allow cards: Randolph, 30.
Fauquier used ice: Malone, I, 77.
“I do wish the devil . . .”:
Nock, 19.
Jefferson’s travel plans: Ibid., 21.
“This should be . . .”:
Ibid., 22.
“When young and single . . .”:
Malone, 1, 449.
coat of arms:
Ibid., 156.
Jefferson wrote “spinster”:
Curtis, 32.
Jefferson willing to sink island: Brodie, 130.
Jefferson’s Virginia draft: Jefferson,
Papers
, I, 33ff.
Jefferson wrote in “self evident”:
Wills, 181–82.
Jefferson on property: Page Smith,
Jefferson
, 96–97.
meaning of “pursuit”: Schlesinger, “Lost Meaning,” 323–25.
New Yorkers had petitioned:
Force, 24.
South Carolina’s assembly moved: Fisher, 274.
blacks outnumbered whites ten to one: Brodie, 41.
one third of Virginia was black:
George Howard, 20.
Bland was denounced: Brodie, 103.
Jefferson did not permit whipping: Ibid., 22.
Jefferson advertised and sold slave: Ibid., 104.
Jefferson as lawyer: Ibid.
John Adams objected: Meigs, 233.
Adams considered denunciation best part: Becker,
Declaration
, 213.
Witherspoon on ripeness: Trevelyan, II, 158.
Dickinson on delay: Wells, II, 432.
Adams felt like actor: John Adams,
Diary
, III, 397.
“It ought to be commemorated . . .”:
John and Abigail Adams, 142.
Jefferson on Northern merchants: Brodie, 144.
Franklin’s hatter anecdote: Jefferson,
Works
, X, 120.
Hutchinson degree: Bailyn,
Ordeal
, 356.
chancellor was North: Malone, I, 229.
Jefferson asked Lee to judge:
Burnett,
Letters
, II, 2.
George III buried in Savannah: Brodie, 146.
Virginia’s deletions: Frank Moore, I, 266.
Jefferson’s journal: Brodie, 148.
“There! John Bull . . .”:
Hazelton, 210.
“Most willingly . . .”:
Chamberlain, 277n.
“. . . all hang separately”:
Van Doren,
Franklin
, 551.
Evening Post:
Bond, Aug. 10, 1776.
Morning Post:
Aug.
12, 1776.
“A reply . . .”:
Morning Post
, Aug. 20, 1776.
“Here they enumerated . . .”:
Gazetteer
, Aug. 17, 1776.
“. . . a dignified contempt.”:
Morning Post
, Aug. 20, 1776.
“the despised Americans . . .”:
Bond,
Public Advertiser
, Sept. 11, 1776.
400,000 blacks: Middlekauff, 28.
slave fans speaker: Hazelton, 277.
usefulness of assassination:
Wells, II, 438.
Hopkins impatient to leave: Burnett,
Letters
, II, 78.
Franklin’s plan rejected: Pleasants, 5–6.
Samuel Adams on state sovereignty: Miller,
Triumph
, 426.
governments of colonies: Nevins, 2.
Massachusetts bloodlines: Ibid.
Virginia on excluding blacks: Jensen,
Making
, 25.
Rutledge’s goals: Jensen,
Articles
, 128.
George Washington as king:
Ibid., 112.
Pacific 100 miles from Atlantic: Ibid., 154.
John Adams on Swiss model: Montross, 182.
no Northern surpluses: Ibid.
“It is of little consequence . . .”:
Burnett,
Letters
, II, 56.
Britain’s greatest force: Ketchum,
Decisive
, 126.
“Let us drub Howe . . .”:
Miller,
Triumph
, 118.
Hickey and Lynch: Freeman, IV, 115.
Mary Gibbons:
Ross, 1, 197.
all clergy cutthroats: Freeman, IV, 120.
forest of trimmed pine trees:
Burke Davis,
Washington
, 87.
Washington’s deployment: Coakley, 46.
George III statue: Freeman, IV, 134.
molded into 42,088 bullets: Ketchum,
Decisive
, 127.
Washington and Howe letter: Freeman, IV, 140; Brooks, 59.
“. . . something exceedingly mysterious . . .”:
Washington, Aug. 19, 1776, in
Writings
, ed. Fitzpatrick, V, 458.
Howe on “criminal’ action:
Maldwyn A. Jones, “Sir William Howe,” in Billias,
Opponents
, 53.
Greene’s background: Theodore Thayer, “Nathanael Greene,” in Billias,
Generals
, 109.
Franklin’s propaganda: Burke Davis,
Washington
, 97.
“Lord Stirling”:
Trevelyan, III, 177.
Washington rejected cavalry: Burke Davis,
Washington
, 100.
Clinton had lived in New York: William B. Willcox, “Sir Henry Clinton,” in Billias,
Opponents
, 74.
Jamaica road guards seized:
Irving, 216.
“But we’re here . . .”:
Burke Davis,
Washington
, 102.
“I will not ask . . .”:
Scheer and Rankin, 186.
“Good God! . . .”:
Burke Davis,
Washington
, 105.
Stirling fought like a wolf: Trevelyan, II, 280.
Scammel’s blunder: Scheer and Rankin, 193.
Washington left old cannon: Trevelyan, II, 290.
George III knighted Howe: Maldwyn Jones, “Sir William Howe,” in Billias,
Opponents
, 52.
Connecticut militia drops: Flexner,
Indispensable Man
, 83.
“Would to Heaven . . .”:
Rodney, 112.
“I wish that the first ball . . .”:
Charles P. Whittemore, “John Sullivan,” in Billias,
Generals
, 145.
“A decoy duck . . .”:
Burnett,
Letters
, II, 70n.
Franklin on colds: John Adams,
Autobiography
, III, 418.
Adams approved of meeting site: Ibid., 420.
Adams’ impression of Lord Howe: Ketchum,
Winter
, 117.
“Mr. Adams is a decided character.”:
Burke Davis,
Washington
, 122.
“General Howe is either . . .”:
Ibid., 117.
Greene on Francis I: Trevelyan, II, 295.
Germans sang hymns: Burke Davis,
Washington
, 124.
“Take the walls!”:
Freeman, IV, 193.
Germans stabbed Americans: Ibid.
“dastardly sons of cowardice”:
Miller,
Triumph
, 134.
Greene thought Washington willing to die:
Trevelyan, II, 300n.
“Good God, have I got . . . ?”:
Freeman, IV, 194n.
woman hoisted Britain’s banner: Serle, 104–5.
“You can hardly conceive . . .”:
Freeman, IV, 203.
Washington to Lund Washington: Washington, Sept. 30, 1776, in
Writings
, ed. Fitzpatrick, VI, 138.
“Providence or some good honest fellow . . .”:
Scheer and Rankin, 212.
Hale hanged: Mackenzie, I, 62–63.
Howe outflanked Americans: Middlekauff, 350.
British took 19 days for 74 miles: Miller,
Triumph
, 142.
“They will neither fight . . .”:
Scheer and Rankin, 231.
Washington complains about New Jersey support: Washington, Dec. 18, 1776, in
Writings
, ed. Fitzpatrick.
Paine and Gates: Patterson, 65.
“These are the times . . .”:
Paine, 75.
Lee is paid 11,000 pounds: Miller,
Triumph
, 70.
“I do not mean to flatter . . .”:
John Shy, “Charles Lee,” in Billias,
Generals
, 35.
Lee’s troops looting: Dwyer, 131.
“I am told . . .”:
Burke Davis,
Washington
, 153.
female screaming:
Ibid.
“Entre nous . . .”:
Lee,
Papers
, II, 345.
“With this sword . . .”:
John Shy, “Charles Lee,” in Billias,
Generals
, 40.
“Here, sir, are the British cavalry!”:
Dwyer, 145.
Honeyman escape: Keller, 18–19.
Howe’s officers not enthusiastic about winter campaign: Channing, III, 232.
Catherine of Russia refused soldiers: Bolkhovitinov, 6.
Prices of mercenaries: Lowell, 5.
Hessians described: Azoy, “Merry,” 484–85.
Rall drank: Miller,
Triumph
, 155.
Rall persuades Howe: Dwyer, 151.
Rall doesn’t build defenses: Channing, III, 233.