his appearance;
    mode of warfare;
    commits outrages in the back-country;
    character of his forces;
    rapidity of his movements;
    approaches the mountains;
    makes ready to receive the backwoodsmen;
    rallies the loyalists;
    halts at King’s 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 tories,