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The following day we both went to Brunswick. I remember well the day. It was Sunday, in the autumn of the year 1783, when we arrived in that town. We dined at the court, where, in the evening, I again met, after this long separation, most of my friends who resided in the place. This was great joy; but, at the same time, it excited in me emotions, which moved my innermost soul.

INDEX.

ACKLAND, Lady Harriet, 92, 120.

Ackland, Major, 120.

Esopus, 108.

Albany, 135.

André, Major, 179.

Anstruther, Colonel, 85.

Arbuthnot, Captain, 88.

BATTEN kill, 100.

Baum, Lieutenant Colonel, 96.
Bemis heights, action of, 98.

Bennington, action near, 96.

Bernsdorf, Count, 16.

Blumefield, Captain Thomas, 132.

Brant, Joseph, 200.

Bristol, 46.

Breymann, Colonel, 96.

Brudenel, Chaplain, 123.

Bremer, General, 19.

Brunswick, 27, 226, 228.

Burgoyne, General, 6, 61, 66, 97, 99, 113, 122, 127, 136.

CALAIS, 43.

Carleton, General, 6, 26; personal appearance of, 30; delivers over the

army to Burgoyne, 84.

Carleton, Mrs. General, 30, 76.

Carl, Duke of Brunswick, 17.

Cambridge, 111.

Carter, son-in-law to Schuyler, 140.

Castle Town (Castleton, Vt.), 96.

Chambly, 83.

Champlain, Lake, 32.

Clinton, General Henry, 108, 169, 170, 179, 182, 185.

Congdon, Charles, 8.

Cornwallis, General, 172, 174.

Crown Point, 35.

DOUGLAS, Admiral, 52.

Dunn, Professor R. P., 8.
Dwight, Theodore, 8, 119.

EDMONSTON, Captain, 145, 153, 160.

Edward, Fort, 91.

Eelking, Max Von, 8.

Ehrenkron, Colonel, 66.

FERDINAND, Duke, 15.

Fink, General, 106.

Field, T. W., 8.

Fishkill, 103.

Foy, Captain, 20, 25.

Foy, Mrs. Captain, 27, 46, 50, 73.

Fox, Mr., 223.

Frazer, Brigadier General, 95; death of, 119; burial of, 121.

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Gates, General, 107; letter of, to Burgoyne, 124.

George, Fort, 91.

Germaine, Lord George, 50.

Germaine, Lady George, 59.

Gifhorn, 18.

Görtz, Count, 151.

Green, Captain, 130.
Grote, Mr. de, 19.
Guildhaudin, Mr., 43.

Gunther, General, 14.

HALDIMAND, General, 194, 198, 200, 203, 206, 213.

Hamilton, Brigadier General, 104.

Hardy, Fort, 103.

Harnage, Major, 114, 122.

Harnage, Mrs. Major, 129.

Hay, Hon. Wm., 8.

Hesse-Hanau regiment, 35.

Hinüber, M. de, Hanoverian minister, 45.

Howe, General, 32, 61, 127.

Howe, Colonel, 152.

Howard, Lady, 221.

Huberton, action at, 95.

Humboldt, Baron Von, 15.

JERUSALEM, Abbé, 30.

Johnson, Sir Wm., 201.

John's Farm, General Riedesel stationed at, 97.

KAPP, Frederick, 8.

Kennedy, Dr., 206.

Kennedy, Mrs. Dr., 210, 214.

Kingston, Deputy Adjutant General, 107, 110.

Knyphausen, General, 177.

LAFAYETTE, General, 112, 146.

Leifert, 19.

Loos, General, 176.

MASSOW, Herr Von, father of Mrs. General Riedesel, 10, 13.

Maurice, Prince of Saxony, 106.

Meiningen, 8.

Miller, Fort, 97.

Montreal, 31.

Munsell, Joel, 6.

Mylius, Chaplain, 212, 219.

NEWFOUNDLAND, Banks of, 214.

Noir, Isle au, 63.

North, Lord, 44, 223.

O'CONNELL, Captain, 44.

Osborne, Colonel, 149.

PAASCH, Madame, 19, 226.

Petersham, Lord, 123, 126.

Phillips, General, 64, 78, 104, 125, 160, 167, 171, 177; death of, 185.

Plymouth, 21.

Portsmouth, 52.

Pownel, Captain, 81.

QUEBEC, 25; description of, 75.

REDEN, Adjutant, 15.

Reuss, Count Henry the XLIV, 10.

Reynels, Mrs., 129.

Riedesel, Mrs. General, sketch of her life, 13; letter to her mother,

36; leaves Wolfenbüttel, 38; arrives in London, 42; adventure in
London, 45; arrives in Bristol, 46; incidents of her stay in
Bristol, 48; sets out for Portsmouth, 51; returns to London, 56;
visits the king and queen under the auspices of Lady George
Germaine, 59; sails for Quebec, 62; diary of her journey from
Portsmouth to Quebec, 68; sets out from Quebec to join her
husband, 81; arrives at Three Rivers, 82; rejoins her husband,
84; returns to Three Rivers, 85; description of the grand-
vicar of Three Rivers and his housekeeper, 86; visits the
Ursiline convent, 87; sets out again to join her husband, 89;
passes an uncomfortable night on Rattlesnake island, 90; passes
through Fort George and arrives at Fort Edward, 91; resides at
the Red House in Fort Edward, 92; account of her journey with
the army on its march to Saratoga, 113; is an eye witness of the
battle of Freeman's farm, 114; attends the wounded officer
Young, 115; the action of the 8th of October, 116; ministers to

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