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Authors: David Hackett Fischer

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Bedford,
163
,
397

Concord,
204
,
403

New England,
403

Sons of Liberty,
403

British regts. carry “colours”

on marches,
385

Fleet, Thomas,
304
,
376

Flint, William,
320

Flucker, Thomas,
58
,
382

Fontenoy, battle of,
34

Food, scarcity of, in Boston,
65
,
262

Foot of Rocks,
125
,
181

Forbes, Esther,
301
,
338
,
339
,
344
,
376
,
382
,
413

Ford, Pres. Gerald,
342

Ford, Sgt. John,
158
,
224
,
409

Fort Ticonderoga,
34

Fort William and Mary, N.H.,
52
,
54
,
55
,
381

Fosdick, Thomas,
19
,
300

Foster, Bos.,
304

Foster, Edmund,
224
,
225
,
410

Foster, Jacob,
391

Foster, Capt. Samuel,
304

Fowle, Jacob,
328

Fowle, Joshua,
388

Framingham,
147
,
168
–70,
220
,
222
,
230
,
287
,
320
,
409

Franklin, Benjamin,
16
,
45
,
280

Fredericksburg, Va.,
325

Freedom, ideas of, xix,
28
,
128
,
153
,
163
,
374

hegemonic,
374

natural,
374

ordered,
374

reciprocal,
374

British imperial elites,
33
,
374

Revere’s, xix,
28
,
384

“publick liberty.”
384

“English” liberties,
33

iconography of,
72

Freedom Trail, Boston,
343

Freemasonry,
19
,
22
,
344
,
378
,
302

French, Allen,
xvi
,
221
,
283

French, Wilfred,
101

French and Indian War,
62
,
114
,
150
,
152
,
154
,
165
,
224

French Reformed churches,
375

Friedman, Ruth,
424

Fritz, Jean,
339

Frost, Capt. Ephraim,
244

Frost, Samuel,
320

Frothingham, Nathaniel,
304

Frothingham, Richard,
330
,
331
,
388

Gage, Sir John of Firle,
378

Gage, Lady Elizabeth,
32

Gage, Margaret Kemble,
31
,
35
,
37
,
75
,
80
,
290

as Whig informer,
386
,
387

divided loyalties,
96

historians and,
387

probable American informant,
96

Gage, Gen. Thomas,
30
,
43
,
44
,
239
,
261
,
264
,
271
,
288

ancestry,
32
–33

early life,
33
–34

marriage,
35

wealth,
36
–37

military career,
34
–35,
379

apptd. col.,
22
d Foot,
308

apptd. Royal

governor (Mass.),
379

summers at Hooper mansion,
382

speech,
33

PERSONAL QUALITIES
: honesty,
36

moderation,
37

conservatism,
35

PRINCIPLES OF
: “common rights of mankind.”
31

liberty,
xvii
,
31
,
33
,
36

rule of law,
58
,
64
,
76
,
85
,
265
,
379

hostility to “democracy.”
39

hostility to New England institutions,
39
–40

REPUTATION OF
: condemned as tyrant in America,
162
,
276

condemned for weakness in London,
276

accused of popery and pederasty,
74

COLONIAL UNREST
: Stamp Act,
37
,
38

Boston Massacre,
38

proposes Coercive Acts,
40
–41
380

advice followed by George III and Lord North,
41

proposes mercenaries to control colonies,
381

RETURNS TO BOSTON
: plans Powder Alarm,
48

plans Salem Alarm,
58

mounting tensions in Boston,
65

intelligence activities,
51

secrecy,
233
,
234
,
276

and Adm. Graves,
68

CONCORD EXPEDITION
: plans,
78
,
85
,
86
,
186

drafts orders for Concord,
85

expects resistance,
86

betrayal of plans,
97

sends patrol to stop alarm riders,
89

orders followed at Concord,
206

CONCORD EXPEDITION REINFORCEMENT OF:
233

alerts Percy’s 1st Brigade,
411

orders 1st Brigade to march,
233
–34

orders resupply,
243

receives news of fighting from Percy,
244

alerts 2d Brigade,
244
,
245

orders 2d Brigade to Charlestown,
262

reports battles to London,
273

courts public opinion after battle,
277

subsequent career,
290

historians and,
xvii

illus.,
379

Gage, Thomas, of Sherburne,
32

Gage, Sir William,
32

Gage’s Light Armed Infantry,
34

Gagetown, New Brunswick,
36

Gainsborough, Thomas,
120

Galvin, Gen. John,
203
,
250
,
339
,
340

Gammell, John,
304

Gardner, Isaac,
320

Gay, Ebenezer,
311

Gay, Jacob,
162

Gentleman, idea of,
376

George II,
239

George III,
30
,
35
,
40
,
41
,
50
,
72
,
73
,
76
,
236
,
244

Georgetown, S.C.,
325

Gergen, David,
373

Germain, Lord George,
275
,
276

Gerry, Elbridge,
90
,
125
,
248
,
288
,
386
,
391

Gettysburg,
298

Gibbings, Lt. Thomas,
323

Gibson, Marjorie Hubbell,
423

Gill, John,
20
,
273

Gill, Moses,
304

Gironde estuary (France),
6

Gleason, Capt. Micajeh,
222

Glorious Revolution,
32

Glover, John,
300

Goeselt, Elizabeth Garside,
418
,
424

Goeselt, Laura,
424

Golden Ball Tavern, illus.,
83

Golledge, Robert W.,
423

Golwait, Ebenezer,
320

Goodhue, Timothy,
424

Gooding, Thomas,
302

Goodwin, Lydia Lebaron,
298

Gordon, Cpl.,
407

Gordon, Lt. William,
324

Gordon, William,
96
,
327
,
399

Gore, Samuel,
304

Goss, Elbridge Henry,
334
,
335

Gould, Harry,
205

Gould, Lt. Edward,
193
,
241
,
322

Gould, William,
304

Graham, James,
14
,
304

Grande peur,
see
Great Fear

Granite Pasture, fight at,
228

Grant, Lt. William,
310
,
324

Grant, Moses,
304

Grant, Ulysses S.,
334

Graves, Adm. Samuel,
53
,
172
,
264
,
271
,
308
,
310

hostility to Gage,
68
,
86

corruption of,
69

proposes to burn “entire country.”
265

subsequent career,
284

Graves, Lt. Thomas,
310

Gray, Capt. George,
324

Gray, Capt. Wait,
304

Great Fear: France (1789),
165
,
166
,
170

New England (1775),
165
,
166

Normandy (1848),
165
,
397

Great Fear, in Mass. towns: Acton,
165

Andover,
167

Boston,
172

Cambridge,
166

Charlestown,
168

Concord,
168
,
169

Danvers,
172

Framingham,
168
–70

Haverhill,
172

Ipswich,
171
,
172

Lexington,
167
,
168
,
176

Menotomy,
169

Newbury,
172

Pepperell,
170
,
171

Salem,
171

Salisbury,
171

Scituate,
171

South-borough,
168

Sudbury,
172

Sutton,
172

Watertown,
169

Weston,
168

Woburn,
182

Great Migration,
8

Greeley, Captain,
300

Green Dragon Tavern (Boston),
20
,
51
,
52
,
53
,
81
,
302
,
376
,
378
,
381

Green Dragon Tavern (London),
53

Greene, Nathaniel,
247
,
304

Greenleaf, Joseph,
72
,
304

Greenleaf, William,
304

Greenough, Newn,
304

Greenwood, Ethan Allen,
198

Grenadiers,
417

Grimshaw, Richard,
407

Gross, Robert,
319
,
423

Gross, Dr. Samuel,
298

Groton, Mass.,
145
,
157
,
170
,
209

Gubbins, Lt. William,
323

Guernsey, Isle of,
6

Guilford, Conn.,
325

Gunpowder,
43

Gunsmiths,
155

Guthrie, Arlo,
342

Hadley, Samuel,
197
,
320

Hadley, Thomas,
320

Hadley family (Lexington),
320

Haines, Carol,
423

Haldimand, Maj. Gen. Frederic,
239
,
308

Halifax,
287

Hall, Rev. David,
172

Hall, Capt. Isaac,
140
,
141
,
341

Hall, Stephen,
302

Hallowell, Benjamin,
48

Ham, William,
304

Hamilton, Lt. George,
323
,
386
,
402

Hamilton, John,
396
,
424

Hamilton, Lt. Col. Ortho,
308

Hammond, Samuel,
304

Hancock, Eben.,
304

Hancock, John,
25
,
27
,
51
,
69
,
79
,
85
,
90
,
94
,
95
,
97
,
103
,
108
,
110
–12,
132
,
134
,
151
,
174
,
177
,
178
,
179
,
182
,
183
,
198
,
251
,
286
,
288
,
292
,
301
,
304
,
376
,
386
,
399

illus.,
176

Hancock, John George Washington,
286

Hancock, Lydia (Henchman),
108
,
109
,
176

illus.,
180

Hancock, Thomas,
180

Hancock-Clarke Parsonage,
91
,
108
,
110
,
143
,
176
,
248
,
390

illus.,
111

Hanson, Robert,
423

Harding, Warren G.,
337
,
342

Hardy’s Hill,
408

see also
Brooks Hill

Harper, Maureen,
424

Harrington, Caleb,
198
,
320

Harrington, Daniel,
319

Harrington, David,
125

Harrington, James,
164

Harrington, Jonathan,
156
,
162
,
197
,
286
,
319

Harrington, Jonathan Jr.,
320

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