brigadier-general, ii. 96;
chief command in New York assumed by, ii. 137;
troops sent toward Canada under, ii. 143;
defeated and made prisoner in Canada, ii. 163.

Thomson, Charles, chosen secretary of the continental
Congress--biographical notice of (_note_), i. 421;
opinion of, as to the superiority of the first Congress (_note_),
i. 423;
chosen secretary of the second continental Congress, i. 528:
letter borne to Washington by, informing him of his election to the
presidency, iii. 84.

Three Rivers, disastrous expedition of General Thompson against Maclean
at, ii. 162.

Throck's Neck, troops of Lord Howe landed at--transfer of troops from,
to Pell's Neck, ii. 311.

Ticonderoga, fort at, erected by the French in 1756, i. 235;
attack upon, under Abercrombie and Lord Howe, i. 263;
admirable conduct of the troops at the siege of--inactivity and
indifference of Johnson's Indians at, i. 265;
effect upon Pitt of the news of the disaster at, i. 266;
taken possession of by Amherst in 1759, i. 292;
expeditions undertaken against, by Colonels Allen and Arnold, i. 524;
valuable stores taken at, by Allen, i. 526;
resolution of Congress respecting the spoils taken at, i. 529;
want of discipline among the troops at, under Colonel Hinman, i. 656;
Generals Schuyler, Gates, and Arnold, present at--command of the army
at, devolved upon Gates, ii. 254;
preparation of a flotilla at, intrusted to General Arnold, ii. 255;
apprehended attack upon, by General Carleton--Colonel Wayne in command
of, ii. 416:
General Heath ordered by Washington to go to, with Massachusetts
regiments, ii. 417:
invested by the British under Burgoyne, ii. 463;
garrison of--the British cannon on Mount Defiance, ii. 464;
abandoned by St. Clair, ii. 465;
letters of Washington to Schuyler, in relation to the evacuation of,
ii. 468, 469, 479.

Tilghman, Colonel, news of the surrender at Yorktown borne to
Philadelphia by, ii. 737.

Titles, presidential, discussions in Congress respecting, iii. 103:
Washington averse to, iii. 105.

Toilet of Washington, iii. 587.

Toleration, religious, of Washington and John Adams (_note_), i. 451.

Tooke, John Horne, a prominent member of the Constitutional Society of
England (_note_), i. 737.

Tories, treatment of, recommended by Washington, i. 747;
action of Congress with