Washington Papers Consolidated Index | A | Artillery
From the Board of War, 21 June 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 5:63]+
From Nathaniel Woodhull, 26 July 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 5:479]+
From Major General William Heath, 22 August 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:106]+
From Major General William Heath, 24 August 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:120]
To Nicholas Cooke, 17 September 1776 [Revolutionary War Series 6:323]
From Major General William Heath, 9 January 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 8:27]
Orders to Brigadier General Henry Knox, 16 January 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 8:86]+
To Brigadier General Thomas Mifflin, 31 January 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 8:204]+
From Major General Philip Schuyler, 18 May 1777 [Revolutionary War Series 9:465]+
From Lieutenant Colonel La Radière, 13 January 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 13:226]+
From Captain Charles Craig, 15 January 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 13:247]+
General Orders, 19 March 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 14:223]+
To Brigadier General William Maxwell, 7 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:75]
From Brigadier General William Maxwell, 11 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:105]+
To Major General Lafayette, 18 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:153]
From Colonel Israel Shreve, 18 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:160]
From Brigadier General William Smallwood, 19–20 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:170]+
From Major General Horatio Gates, 21 May 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 15:178]
General Orders, 16 November 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:162]+
From Major General Alexander McDougall, 17 November 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:184]+
From Lieutenant Colonel Udny Hay, 18 November 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:194]+
To Richard Peters, 18 November 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:200]+
From Brigadier General Jedediah Huntington, 20 November 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:226]+
To Major General Johann Kalb, 4 December 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:365]+
To Major General Alexander McDougall, 5 December 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:370]+
From Henry Laurens, 6 December 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:373]+
To Major General Philip Schuyler, 18 December 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:457]
To Major General Lafayette, 29 December 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:527]
From Henry Waldegrave Archer, 30 December 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:531]+
To Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Flower, 31 December 1778 [Revolutionary War Series 18:542]+
From Major General Alexander McDougall, 11–15 January 1779 [Revolutionary War Series 18:619]
To a Board of General Officers, 1 April 1779 [Revolutionary War Series 19:694]+
From Peter Scull, 1 April 1779 [Revolutionary War Series 19:702]+
– abandoned [1 reference]
– aboard warships [2 references]
– accidents [4 references]
– advantage of brass cannon [1 reference]
– air furnace [1 reference]
– alarm guns [5 references]
– American [2 references + 54 subentries]
– American attempts to procure [1 reference]
– American artillery park [23 references]
– American cannon [47 references + 37 subentries]
– American capture of [20 references]
– ammunition [12 references]
– and frontier defense [1 reference]
– and military stores [1 reference]
– and proposed assault on New York City [3 references]
– and Rhode Island expedition [15 references]
– and summer campaign plans [9 references]
– appointments in [1 reference]
– arrangement and disposition [23 references]
– artificers for [1 reference]
– artillery park [27 references]
– as plunder [2 references]
– at Albany [6 references]
– at Billingsport, N.J. [1 reference]
– at Boston [9 references]
– at crossings of the Delaware River [7 references]
– at Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. [2 references]
– at Fort Independence (Bronx, N.Y.) [1 reference]
– at Fort Lee, N.J. [6 references]
– at Fort Washington, N.Y. [6 references]
– at King's Bridge, N.Y. [2 references]
– at King's Ferry, N.Y. [1 reference]
– at Monmouth Battle [2 references]
– at New Brunswick, N.J. [1 reference]
– at New York City [22 references]
– at Perth Amboy, N.J. [1 reference]
– at Princeton, N.J. [1 reference]
– at Trenton [9 references]
– at West Point [4 references]
– at White Plains, N.Y. [8 references]
– baggage in order of march [1 reference]
– batteries [1 reference]
– battering cannon [2 references]
– blunderbusses [1 reference]
– boats for [3 references]
– bomb batteries [1 reference]
– bow chasers [1 reference]
– bridges for [1 reference]
– British [30 references + 39 subentries]
– British and German cannon [10 subentries]
– British and Hessian [1 reference + 5 subentries]
– British artillery park [1 reference]
– British cannon [8 references + 17 subentries]
– British capture of [12 references]
– British praise American gunners [1 reference]
– British transportation of [4 references]
– British use of [3 references]
– burst cannon [1 reference]
– burst mortars and guns [5 references]
– cannoneers [3 references]
– cannon fire [1 reference]
– captured [42 references]
– captured by Americans [13 references]
– captured from British forces [6 references]
– care of [1 reference]
– carriages [36 references]
– casting of [3 references]
– casting of cannon [1 reference]
– casualties [1 reference]
– clothing for [2 references]
– command regulations in [1 reference]
– commissary of [2 references]
– companies [7 references]
– companies raised [3 references]
– condition of guns [1 reference]
– congressional resolutions on [1 reference]
– construction of [1 reference]
– Continental artillery corps [12 references]
– Continental officers [10 references + 3 subentries]
– Continental regiments [67 references + 17 subentries]
– cost of manufacturing [1 reference]
– court of inquiry about [1 reference]
– courts-martial in [2 references]
– crosses Delaware River [4 references]
– damaged cannon [2 references]
– deserters from [3 references]
– destroyed by British [1 reference]
– detachments [3 references]
– disposition and movements [31 references]
– distribution of [12 references]
– drives off British engineers [1 reference]
– estimates of [1 reference]
– fired in celebrations [3 references]
– fire ships [6 references]
– firing of [1 reference]
– firing restricted [6 references]
– floating batteries [45 references]
– for American armed vessels [23 references]
– for blockading Boston Harbor [1 reference]
– for coastal defense [6 references]
– for Connolly's force [1 reference]
– for defense of Philadelphia [1 reference]
– for defense of Potomac River [3 references]
– for GW's privateer [1 reference]
– for militia [3 references]
– for New England ports [9 references]
– for Nova Scotia expedition [1 reference]
– for Philadelphia [2 references]
– for ships [7 references]
– for signals and alarms [2 references]
– for the defense of Philadelphia [1 reference]
– French naval guns [5 references]
– French naval [3 references]
– from Ticonderoga [11 references]
– fusées [1 reference]
– fuses [1 reference]
– given to colonies [5 references]
– grasshoppers [1 reference]
– guards stores [1 reference]
– gun barrels [2 references]
– gunners [1 reference]
– Hessian cannon [15 references]
– horses for [14 references]
– howitzers [5 references]
– importation of [9 references]
– imported [4 references]
– in American lines [4 references]
– in American lines at Boston [5 references]
– in and to Canada [4 references]
– in army arrangement [1 reference]
– in army establishment [1 reference]
– in Battle of Monmouth [2 references]
– in Battle of Savannah [1 reference]
– in British army [16 references]
– in British lines [10 references]
– in British lines at Boston [13 references]
– in Bucks County, Pa. [8 references]
– in Canada [37 references]
– in Canadian invasion [4 references]
– in Connecticut [4 references]
– independent companies [3 references + 2 subentries]
– in engagements [21 references]
– in forts [2 references]
– in Hudson Highlands [37 references]
– in Maryland [1 reference]
– in New England [16 references]
– in New Jersey [29 references + 2 “see also” entries]
– in New York [54 references]
– in northern department [24 references]
– in order of march [1 reference]
– in parade [1 reference]
– in Pennsylvania [6 references]
– in raids [2 references]
– in Rhode Island [10 references]
– in Schuyler's army [6 references]
– in skirmishes [6 references]
– in South Carolina and Georgia [2 references]
– in southern department [7 references]
– in winter quarters [2 references]
– left in Boston by British [3 references]
– located [7 subentries]
– manufacture of [34 references]
– Massachusetts units [2 references]
– matches for [1 reference]
– matrosses [21 references]
– medicine chests for [1 reference]
– methods and techniques [4 references]
– militia company raised for [1 reference]
– mortars [14 references]
– mortars rumored captured [1 reference]
– naval [9 references]
– near King's Bridge, N.Y. [3 references]
– needed in Continental army [12 references]
– need for [2 references]
– officers [8 references + 1 subentry]
– officers and men for [24 references]
– officers of [21 references + 3 subentries]
– on boats and ships [47 references]
– on British warships [5 references]
– on frontier [1 reference]
– on Lake Champlain [2 references]
– on ships [2 references]
– on the march [8 references]
– on warships [7 references]
– orderly book [2 references]
– ordnance for [12 references]
– ordnance stores [46 references]
– organization [7 references]
– parks of [3 references]
– patereros [1 reference]
– pay and paymasters [8 references]
– Pennsylvania independent company [1 reference]
– Pennsylvania state regiment [1 reference]
– platforms [5 references]
– prepared for action [1 reference]
– procured by Knox [15 references]
– procurement [1 reference]
– rank in [2 references]
– recasting of cannon [5 references]
– recruitment [2 references]
– regiments [32 references]
– regulations and policies regarding recruitment [1 reference]
– regulations for firing of [1 reference]
– rejoins main army [1 reference]
– removal and securing of [4 references]
– requested by Massachusetts [1 reference]
– requested from Continental navy [7 references]
– requests for [2 references]
– requisitioned from northern department [1 reference]
– returns [13 references]
– Rhode Island detachment [1 reference]
– Rhode Island regiment [2 references]
– salutes [2 references]
– sent to British army [9 references]
– sent to camp [1 reference]
– shore defense [1 reference]
– shortage [32 references]
– signal guns [11 references]
– sought [1 reference]
– special types [4 subentries]
– spiked cannon [6 references]
– spiked guns [8 references]
– spiking of [2 references]
– stores at Springfield, Mass [3 references]
– stores for [2 references]
– strategy and tactics [3 references]
– stream crossings [2 references]
– supplies from Europe [2 references]
– Swedish [3 references]
– swivel guns [24 references]
– training [3 references]
– trains [3 references]
– transport of [2 references]
– troops commended [1 reference]
– types of [24 subentries]
– used against British shipping [2 references]
– used as signals [3 references]
– used for alarm signals [3 references]
– use in celebrations [1 reference]
– Virginia state artillery [1 reference]
– vulnerability of [1 reference]
– wagons for [3 references]
See also Commissary of artillery
See also Harrison, Charles [matches multiple entries]
See also Knox, Henry [matches multiple entries]
See also Lamb, John [matches multiple entries]