Authors: Nancy Rubin Stuart
Defiant Brides (40 page)
Washington, John “Jackie,” 130
Washington, Martha, 32, 141, 172; absent from inauguration, 161; first “levee” of, 167; friendship with Henry and Lucy, 22, 24, 26, 57; hospitality to Lucy, 127–128; life at Valley Forge, 37
Waste Lands of the Crown in Upper Canada, 187, 209–210
Watkins, Anne, 83
Wayne, Anthony “Mad Anthony,” 57, 173; mutineers and, 118, 119; re-takes Stony Point, 68, 78; scorn for women of Mischianza, 44
weather: blizzards of 1779–1780, 72, 73; summer heat in Philadelphia, 165, 168, 172
Webber, John, 150
Welles family, 147
West India Planters and Merchants, 187
Westminster Abbey, 137
West Point, 60, 77, 79; “Great Chain” at, 76; Knox’s artillery sent to, 81; poor condition of fort, 80; security tightened for, 103; U.S. Military Academy established, 205
Wharton, Joseph, 9
Whigs, 137
Whiskey Rebellion, 173
Whitehall Evening Post
(London newspaper), 136
Whiting, Thurston, 194
William IV, King, 209
Willing, Mary (cousin), 12
Wilson, Barry, 201
Wilson, James, 69, 70
Winslow, Elizabeth, 56
Winslow, Sarah, 56
Winslow family, 149
Wister, Sally, 42
Women of the American Revolution
(Ellet), 168, 205–206
Yorktown, Virginia: battle of, 129–130; Cornwallis surrenders, 130; Knox on battle of, 52; preparations to attack, 125, 127–128
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rubin Stuart, Nancy.
Defiant brides : the untold story of two revolutionary-era women and the radical men they married / Nancy Rubin Stuart.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN: 978-0-8070-0118-9
ISBN 978-0-8070-0117-2 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Arnold, Margaret Shippen, 1760–1804. 2. Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1760–1824. 3. Arnold, Benedict, 1741–1801. 4. Knox, Henry, 1750–1806. 5. United States— History—Revolution, 1775–1783—Biography. I. Title.
E278.A72R83 2012
973.3092′52—dc23
2012027734