V.

VALENTINE'S HILL, 271.

VANDEWATER, B., farm, 43; battle on farm of, 248.

VAN CORTLAND, COL., 130.

VAN DYCK, CAPT., and grenadier battery, 85.

VAN WAGENEN, LIEUT. G.H., on Long Island, 177; sketch of, Part II., 192.

VARNUM, COL., on Long Island, 65; at Red Hook, 76; alarm post, 82, 118, 130.

VEAZEY, CAPT., 115; killed on Long Island, 169, 197.

VIRGINIA, troops from, 116; at Trenton, 289.

W.

WADSWORTH, GEN., brigade, 129; on Long Island, 189, _n._; at Kip's Bay, 237.

WALDRON, CAPT., on Long Island, 65, 111.

WALLABOUT, settlement, 44; bay, 47.

WALPOLE, HORACE, on Long Island defeat, 199; on Washington, 297.

WARD, COL. A., 51, 57, 58, 59, 128.

WARD, COL. J., 117, 129; at Long Island battle, 188, _n._

WASHINGTON, GEN. GEORGE, sends Lee to New York, 49; to Stirling, 58; at Providence, 62; Lady Washington, 63; Gen. Washington at New York, 63; headquarters in New York, 86; orders to troops on enemy's arrival, 95; Howe's letter to _Mr._ Washington, 97; inspects position on Long Island, 152, 153; on Long Island during battle, 189; at Brooklyn, takes no rest, 212; council for retreat, 213; decides to retreat from Long Island, 215, _n._, 219, _n._; orders for the retreat, 219, 220; anxiety at New York, 226; letter to Heath, 226; at battle of Harlem Heights, 250; at White Plains, 273; at fall of Fort Washington, 278; responsibility for fall of, 281-285; orders at Trenton, 290, 292; at Assanpink Creek, 293; at Princeton, 293; Walpole on his generalship, 297.

WASHINGTON, FORT, location, 263; British march to, 276; attack upon, 279; fall of, 280; loss at, 281.

WASHINGTON, CAPT. WILLIAM, at Trenton, 290, 292.

WATERBURY, COL. D., 51, 57, 59.

WATERBURY'S battery, 55, 87.

WEBB, COL. C., 119, 120, 130; at White Plains, 27; at Trenton, 289.

WEBB, LIEUT.-COL., aide, 126; at White Plains, 275; at Trenton, 291; sketch of, Part II., 193.

WEEDON, COL., regiment engaged at Harlem Heights, 251.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, operations in, 265-276.

WHITEHALL BATTERY, 87.

WHITE PLAINS, battle of, 273-275.

WHITING, MAJ., 128.

WOLCOTT, GEN., king's statue and bullets, 93, 121, 131; writes from Congress on the war, 297; letter from, Part II., 147.

WOLVERTON, CAPT., on Long Island, 82.

WOODHULL, GEN., on Long Island, 111, 131; captured and wounded, 199; prisoner, 206; letters from, Part II., 73; sketch of, Part II., 193.

WYLLYS, COL., 119, 120, 128; on Long Island, 156, 181-185.

WYLLYS, MAJ., 129; prisoner at Kip's Bay, 243, _n._

Y.

YORK, corporation of, votes address on news from Long Island, 199.

ERRATA.

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Page 119, line 1--Lieutenant-Colonel Cornell became member of the Board of War, not Commissary-General.

Page 243, line 10--But one of the regiments suffered as much as any other.

Page 280, line 21--Rall's column reached Fort Washington first.

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(Ward's).