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assistance rendered by, to Sir Henry Clinton on the Hudson--ravages of, in Connecticut, ii. 654; destruction of an American flotilla by, in Penobscot bay, ii. 661.

Collins, Captain, powder belonging to the province of Virginia seized by, in 1775, i. 518.

Colonies, new era in the history of, i. 69; pay of troops raised in (_note_), i. 102; growth of democratic ideas in, i. 228; a viceroyalty suggested for, i. 229; little indebted to the mother-country, i. 315; cost of the French and Indian war to (_note_), i. 316; commercial policy of England toward, i. 321.

Colonists, French and English, characteristics of, i. 67, 68.

Commission as colonel resigned by Washington in 1754, i. 126; commission as commander-in-chief received by Washington, form of (_note_), i. 540; resignation of, by Washington, iii. 35.

"Common Sense," a pamphlet by Thomas Paine, powerful influence of,