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INDEX.
Plessis, du. See Matiduit.
Plumfield, Major, aid to General Phillips, nursed by Baroness Riedesel at Saratoga, 177.
Point of Fork, Va., General Steuben outwitted by Lieutenant-Colonel Sinicoe, 273.
Pollingtovvn. See Hackensack.
Pontchartrain, Lake, Waldeckers taken prisoners on, 252.
Porbeck, Colonel Friedrich von, complimented by General Prevost at Savannah, 242.
Portsmouth, England, Germans at, 119, 120.
Portsmouth, Va., General Leslie at, 265; skirmish near, 270, 271; Gen- eral Phillips at, 272; Cornwallis, 276.
Prescott, Major-General Robert, captured on Rhode Island, 217; being exchanged, defends Newport, 218, 219; evacuates it, 220.
Prevost, General, takes command in Savannah, operations in South Car- olina and Georgia, 240, 241 ; attack on Savannah repulsed, 242 ; plundering, 245.
Princeton, N. J., occupied by the British, 87 ; fugitives from Trenton escape to Princeton, 95 ; battle, 107.
Prisoners, American., at Long Island, harnessed to cannon, 64 ; officers beaten, 66. German, Hessians taken at Trenton, 95, 96; cross the Delaware, 100; officers dine with Washington, loi ; sent to Penn- sylvania and Virginia; General Putnam, 102; officers in Virginia, 103, 104 ; privates in Philadelphia and the Valley of Virginia, anec- dotes, 104-106 ; soldiers let themselves out as farm servants, 106, 191 ; Brunswickers taken at Saratoga lay down their arms, 181, 182; march to Cambridge, 184, 189; at Cambridge, hardships, 189-193; march to Virginia, 193-196 ; in Virginia, 195, 196; Morgan's house, 267 ; desertion of prisoners, 287-290.
Provincials. See Tories.
Pulaski, Count Casimir, his legion deceived by Evvald, 246; Pulaski killed before Savannah, 246, n. ; Pulaski enlists deserters, 288.
Putnam, Major-General Israel, mentioned by Colonel von Heeringen, 67 ; evacuates New York, 71; undertakes to build a barrier across the Hudson, 79 ; described by a Hessian officer, 102.
Puy, Lieutenant-Colonel Johann Christian du, commands the regiment von Bose at Guildford Court House, 269.
Q.
Quebec, governor refuses to allow the Zerbst regiment to land, 52; Bruns- wickers arrive at, 120; second division arrives, 124; penance, 124.
R.
Rail, Colonel Johann Gottlieb, distinguished at Chatterton Hill, 77; and Fort Washington, 80-83 ; quartered at Trenton, at his own request, 87, 88; his recklessness and contempt for the Americans, 88-91;
