Walpole, Horace, Earl of Orford, 214, 236, 262.
Washington, George, builds Fort Necessity, 157; and the Braddock expedition, 192; appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, 254; early campaigns of the war, 254-57; thinks the "game nearly up," 255; amazed at Howe's conduct, 257; at Valley Forge, 259; effort to bribe, 261; criticism of, 264; at West Point, 268; at Yorktown, 269, 270; bids farewell to his officers, 273; army proposes to make him king, 273.
Wealth, colonial aristocracy based on, 166.
Wentworth, Thomas, Earl of Strafford, 91.
West Indies, trade of continental colonies with, 120, 150, 166; importance for English colonial system, 138; planters influential in Parliament, 149.
Western lands, ceded to the Federal Government, 265.
Whig oligarchy, attitude toward the colonies, 148 _ff._; and the Seven Years' War, 158.
Whitefield, the evangelist, 186, 188, 199.
Winthrop, John, 90, 93, 98, 102-105, 112, 115, 120.
Yorktown, surrender of Cornwallis at, 269, 270.
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