314.

George III., determination of, to bring the colonies into unconditional
submission, i. 485;
caricature of, published in England, i. 486;
speech of, at the opening of Parliament in 1776, ii. 2;
electoral troops of (_note_), ii. 4;
goodness of heart of, ii. 10;
leaden statue of, in New York, converted into bullets, ii. 214;
portrait of, in Nassau Hall, Princeton, injured by a cannon-shot
(_note_), ii. 389;
conversation of Jay with, in 1795, iii. 338;
ratification of Jay's treaty by, in 1790, iii. 390.

Georgia, colony of, planted in the year of Washington's birth, i. 17;
personal description of representatives from, in the continental
Congress, in 1775 (_note_), i. 727;
invasion of, by Colonel Campbell--General Robert Howe, in command of the
Americans in--command of the royal forces in, taken by General
Prevost, ii. 650.

Germain, Lord George, his approbation of General Howe's abandonment of
Boston, ii. 86, 89.

German mercenaries, high price paid for, by the British government, ii. 6;
employment of, condemned in the house of commons, ii. 7;
departure of, from England, for the St. Lawrence, ii. 89.

Germantown, army of Washington encamped at, ii. 489;
retreat of Washington to, after the battle of the Brandy wine--thirty
hogsheads of rum sent to the troops at, by order of Congress, ii. 511;
account of the battle at, ii. 552-557;
the delay at Chew's house the cause of the loss of the battle of,
ii. 554;
retreat of the American army at, covered by General Greene--comparative
losses of the British and Americans at, ii. 556;
the British almost defeated at, ii. 557;
impression produced in Europe by the battle at, ii. 559;
proposed assemblage of Congress at, in 1793, iii. 282;
family of Washington at, in 1794, iii. 333.

Gerry, Elbridge, special envoy to France in 1798, iii. 496;
detention of, in France, by a threat of Talleyrand, iii. 504.

Gibbon, the historian, doubts of, as to British success in
America--political character of (_note_), i. 495.

Giles, Mr., motion of, in Congress, to expunge certain language
complimentary to Washington, iii. 460;
motion of, sustained by Andrew Jackson, iii. 461.

Gist, Christopher, employed by the Ohio Company, in 1750, to explore
their lands, i. 71;
Washington's guide in his Ohio expedition, i. 76;
his narrative of adventures in