Mountain;
his confidence in the bayonet;
attacked by the mountaineers;
at the battle of King's Mountain;
his reckless bravery;
his death;
Field, Colonel John, serves under Gen. Lewis, I;
starts off on his own account;
despatched to the front;
his timely arrival;
restores the battle;
death of;
Fincastle men, the,
from the Holston, Clinch, Watauga, and New River settlements, I;
commanded by Col. William Christian;
delay of;
most of them too late to join in the battle of the Great Kanawha;
reach the Great Kanawha after the battle;
First explorers, I;
Fleming, Col. William, I;
serves under Gen. Lewis;
ordered to advance;
rallies the backwoodsmen;
Florida, the winning of, I;
Floyd, John, I;
leads a party of surveyors to Kentucky;
descends the Kanawha;
surveys for Washington and Henry;
goes down the Ohio;
his party splits up at mouth of the Kentucky;
arrives at Falls of the Ohio;
explores the land;
reaches Clinch River;
appointed colonel, II;
defeated at Long Run;
with Clark among the Miamis;
ravages the country;
killed by Indians;
Forests, the, I;
extended from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi,
penetrated by hunters;
Forest Warfare, merciless ferocity of, I;
Fort Pitt, I;
claimed by Virginia;
Lord Dunmore's army advances to;
Fort Rutledge. See Eseneka;
France, the ally of America, II;
Freeland station, attacked by Indians;
French Broad River, a feeder of the Tennessee, I;
French Creoles, the;
life of, I;
tillers of the soil among;
much mixture of blood among;
unthriftiness of;
utterly unacquainted with liberty;
as traders and trappers;
great personal influence of the priesthood among;
personal character of;
social life of;
villages of.
Frontier, the, outrages and reprisals on, I;
ravaged by the northwestern Indians, II;
ravages on the, following the Moravian massacre
de Galvez, Don Bernard, Spanish commandant at New Orleans, II;
meditates the establishment of a Spanish-American empire;
attacks British West Florida;
captures the forts along the Mississippi;
takes Mobile and Pensacola
Game, abundance of, in Illinois prairies, I;
in Kentucky;
enormous quantities of, seen at French Lick, now Nashville, Tenn.;
Georgia, ravaged by the Indians and torie