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volunteers from, among the troops sent to put down the "Whiskey Insurrection" in 1794, iii. 321.

Quebec, siege of, by General Wolfe, i. 293-300; capitulation of, to General Townshend--General Murray left to defend--siege of, by De Levi, in 1760, i. 300; opportune arrival of Lord Colville at, i. 301; expedition against, intrusted to Arnold, i. 683; instructions of Washington to Arnold on his departure for, i. 683-687; approach of Arnold known in, through Indian treachery--terror of the people of, on the arrival of Arnold at Point Levi, i. 696; Maclean's Highlanders the only reliable defence of, during the siege by Arnold, i. 702; small British squadron sent from Boston for the relief of, i. 711; probable success of the Americans at, reported to Washington by Captain Freeman, i. 713; reliance of Sir Guy Carleton upon troops from England for the defence of, ii. 99; garrison of, reinforced--sortie from, led by Carleton, upon the Americans on the Plains of Abraham--retreat of the American army from, to Chamblée and St. John, ii. 102.

Quincy, Josiah, biographical notice of (_note_), i. 464; letters of, written from London, in relation to the Revolutionary struggle, i. 465-467; extract from a speech of, delivered in Boston, in 1773 (_note_), i. 465; scheme of, for protecting the harbor of Boston, i. 748.

R.

Radnor, earl of, letter of Washington to, from Mount Vernon, in 1798, iii. 488.

Ralle, Colonel, surprise of, at Trenton, ii. 373; mortal wound received by, at the head of his grenadiers, ii. 374; visited at his quarters by Washington and Greene, ii. 375.

Randolph, Edmund, resolutions of, in the convention to amend the federal confederation, iii. 66; appointed by Washington attorney-general in 1789, iii. 121; successor of Jefferson as secretary of state, iii. 289; letters of Washington to, in relation to Jay's treaty, iii. 357, 359; suspicions thrown on the integrity of, by intercepted papers of Fauchet,