Chato, Indian leader, IV., 233
Cheeseman, Edmund, executed,
I., 210

Chicago, great fire at, IV., 26
Chicheley, Sir Henry, I., 206, 211
Chickamauga, battle of, III., 206
Chili, threatened war with, IV.,
322

Chilkat Indians, account of the,
IV., 75

Chilkoot Pass, V., 120
Chinese in Manila, V., 277

70

52

Chinese immigration, IV., 71
Chinese, characteristics of, V.,
Chinese mission school, V., 55
Chinese laborers, V., 144
China, trouble with, V., 52; con-
stitution of, 52; wealth of, 54;
evacuation of, by American
troops, 63; partition of, 70
Choctaw and Chickasaw, Indians,
V., 119

Chopart, French commander, I.,
271

Christian Commission, account
of, III., 362-375

Christie, Ensign, of Fort Presque
Isle, I., 327
Church, Captain Benjamin, I.,
177, 222

Cibitu, island of, V., 200
Cities, growth of, V., 140
City, The Forbidden, V., 60
Cienfuegos, blockade of, IV., 375
Civil service reform, IV., 154
Civil service rules, benefit of, V.,
82

Clarendon, Earl of, I., 151
Clark, George, lieutenant-govern-
or of New York, I., 242
Clark, William, commands ex-
ploring expedition, II., 242
Clarke, Captain Charles E., IV.,
375; biographical sketch of, V.,
46

Clarke, Major George R., against
Indians, II., 71-74
Clarke, Mary, Quakeress, I., 133
Clarke, Lieutenant Powhattan H.,
gallantry of, IV., 258
Clay, Henry, opposes admission
of Texas, II., 345; proposes the
"omnibus bill," 363
Clayborne, William, trader, I.,
139, 142-144
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, V., 124,

125

Cleveland, Colonel, at battle of
Kings Mountain, II., 108-110
Cleveland, Grover, elected presi-
dent, IV., 148; marriage of, 252;
re-elected president for second
term, 333
Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth, IV.,
258
Climate in the Philippines, V., 280
Clinton, George, governor of
New York, I., 246

Coal strike, V., 138

Cobb, Howell, urges secession,
III., 6

Cockburn, Admiral, atrocities of,
II., 274
Coddington,

William,

colonial

judge, I., 126
Cold Harbor, battle of, III., 282
Colfax, Schuyler, nominated for
vice-president, IV., 14
Coligny, Lord Admiral, leader of
the Huguenots, I., 42-44
Colleges, founding of, I., 334
Colleton, James, governor
South Carolina, I., 158
Collins, Professor A. Frederick,
V., 24

of

Colonial Congress, first, I., 339;
second, 350

Colonial expansion, V., 84
Colonization Society of the U. S.,
II., 298
Colorado

admitted into the
Union, IV., 33; brief history of,
V., 316
Colombia, rejects treaty provid-
ing for canal concessions, V.,
181

Columbian Exposition, descrip-
tion of, IV., 334
Columbus, Bartholomew, brother
of Christopher, I., 10, 26
Columbus, Christopher, early his-
tory of, I., 7-12; first voyage,
13-20; reception at home, 22-24;
second voyage, 24-26; third
voyage, 26; fourth voyage and
death, 28-30
Columbus, Diego, son of Chris-
topher, I., 10, 26, 30
Columbus, Fernando;
Christopher, I., 10
Colve, Anthony, governor of New
York, I., 164
Compte de Rochambeau, V., 159,
160, 161
Conant, Roger, colonist, I., 109
Concord, Mass., skirmish at, I.,
354

son of

Court of Inquiry, Sampson and
Schley controversy, V., 151
Connecticut, settled, I., 117; brief
history of, V., 304
Conspiracy of Pontiac, I., 316-326
Constitution and the Flag, V.,
165
Constitution of the United States,
II., 195-198; V., 294; text
of,
324
Conway Cabal, history of the, II.,

54

Cooper, Anthony Ashley, Georgia
colonist. I., 251
Cooper, Peter, IV., 46
Cook, Captain, navigator, V., 284
Copeland, John, Quaker, I., 134
Copley, Sir Lionel, ruler of Mary-
land, I., 215

Corbin, General Henry C., V., 51
Corea, trouble with, IV., 25
Corey, Giles, executed as a witch,
I., 202

Corinth, battle of, III., 122
Cornbury, Lord, governor of
New York and New Jersey, I.,

221

Cornwallis, Lord, on Long Isl-
and, II., 22; the pursuit
through New Jersey, 31; vic-
tory at Camden, 103; in pur-
suit of Morgan, 133; raids Vir-
ginia, 147; fortifies Yorktown,
149; surrenders, 155
Corporations, rapid growth of,
V., 138-140, 142
Corregidor, Island, V., 7; Com-
modore Dewey discovers lights
of, 13: first shot from, 14
Cosby, Colonel William, governor
of New York, I., 242
Cotton, Centennial Exposition in
New Orleans, IV., 188
Cotton, Rev. John, I., III, 114-

Cuban Republic, flag of, raised
by General Wood, V., 195
Cubans, ingratitude of, V., 26
Currency Bill, V., 87
Culpeper, Lord, proprietor of
Virginia, I., 206; governor, 211
Curtis, General, at Pea Ridge,
III., 71

Cushing, Lieutenant, destroys the
Albemarle, III., 251
Cushman, Robert, receives grant
of land, I., 108
Custer, General George A., mas-
sacred by Indians, IV., 43
Cuyler, Lieutenant, surprised by
Indians, I., 323
Czolgosz, Leon F., assassin of
President McKinley, V., 115,
118

D

Dahlgren, Colonel, killed at Rich-
mond, III., 274
Dahlgren, Rear-admiral, attacks
Charleston, III., 227
Daiquiri, evacuation of, IV., 390
Dale, Sir Thomas, governor of
Jamestown, I., 74, 75, 77
Dallas, George M., elected vice-
president, II., 345
Dalrymple, Colonel, I., 343
Dalzell, Captain, leads attack on
Pontiac, I., 323, 324
Danish West Indies, V., 175
Dare, Virginia, first English child
born in U. S., I., 58
Darien, Georgia, founding of, I.,
258

Davenport, Reverend John, colo-
nist, I., 127

Davis, Commodore C. H., before
Memphis, III., 116; besieges
Vicksburg, 118; V., 2
Davis, Henry Gassaway, nomi-

nated for vice-president, V., 226
Davis, Isaac, patriot leader, I.,

354

Davis, Jefferson, president of the

Confederacy, III., 6; re-elected,

62; flees from Richmond, 310; |
letters to wife, 353-356, flight
of, 357; captured, 358; tour of,
IV., 202, speeches of, 203; death
and sketch of, 274
Davis, John, navigator, I., 55
Davis, Nicholas, Quaker, exe-
cuted, I., 134

Dawson City, IV., 351, V., 120
Daws' Commission, V., 119
Dawes, William, patriot, I., 351
Day, William R., member of

Peace Commission, V., 25
Deane, Silas, envoy to France,
II., 33, 55, 81
Dearborn, Henry, appointed
commander-in-chief, II., 261;

doings in Canada, 271; relieved
from command, 272
Debs, Eugene V., nominated for
president, by Social Democratic
party, V., 92

Decatur, Stephen, engagement
with Moors, II., 238; brilliant
work of, 267; betrayed by "blue
lights," 275; sent to Algiers, 297
De Choisy, General, at siege of
Yorktown, II., 154

Declaration of Independence, II.,
10-18; V., 321

Declaration of Rights, I., 339
Decoration Day, IV., 202
Deerfield, Massachusetts, attacked
by Indians, I., 175-221

De Galvez, Bernardo, governor
of Louisiana, II., 95

De Grasse, Count, French ad-
miral, II., 151

De Haven, Lieutenant, Arctic ex-
plorer. II., 366

De Heister, General in charge of
Hessians, 11., 20

De Kalb, Baron, killed in Ameri-
can service, II., 102, 103
Delaware, brief history of, V.,
303

Delancey, Captain James, atroci-
ties of, II., 175
Delaplace, Captain, surrenders
Ticonderoga, I., 357

De la War, Lord, governor of
Jamestown, I., 71-73, 74
Delaware Indians, treaty with
Pennsylvania, I., 186
De Lesseps, Count Ferdinand,
portrait of, IV, 161; builds
Suez canal, 162; failure at Pan-
ama, 166; death of, 166; address
of, at the dedication of the
Statue of Liberty, 170
De Levis, French general, I., 314
Democratic convention, in 1900,
V., 84; in 1904, 226
Democratic platform, 1884, IV.,
150; of 1900, V., 84, 87
De Lome, Don Depuy, Spanish
Minister to the United States,
insulting letter of, IV., 361; res-
ignation of, 361

Denmark, proposal of, to sell
West India Islands, V., 176

Denver, Charles, member of the
Philippine Commission, V., 34
Depew, Chauncey M., speech of,
at dedication of Statue of Lib-
erty, IV., 171
De Soto, Hernando, explorer, I.,
36-38
D'Estaing,

Count, commands
French fleet, II., 64; failure at
Newport, 65, 66; besieges Sa-
vannah, 94

Detroit, siege of, I., 319-326
De Vries, Dutch colonist, I., 93
Dewey, Commodore George, ap-
pointed to command of Asiatic
Squadron, V., 6; portrait of,
7; arrives at Manila, 13; attacks
Spanish fleet, 14; "You may
fire, Gridley,' 16; appointed
rear-admiral, 18; commendation
of, by President McKinley to
Congress, 18; diplomacy of,
after battle of Manila,
leaving the burning Mississippi
at New Orleans, 39; reception
of, at New York, 44.
Diamonds, discovery of, in Cape
Nome, V., 122

20;

Dieskau, French commander, I.,
298

Dingley tariff bill, IV., 350
Dingley tariff law, V., 86
District of Columbia, brief his-
tory of, V., 318
Diplomatic corps, V., ΙΟΙ
Doeg Indians, at war with set-
tlers, I., 207

Dolbear, Professor, V., 236
Dominico, discovery of, I., 24
Donelson, attack on Fort, III., 59
Donelson, Mrs. Andrew, niece of
President Jackson, IV., 255
Dongan, Colonel Thomas, colo-
nial governor, I., 195
Doniphan, Colonel, doings of, II.,
350

Dorchester, Massachusetts, set-
tlement of, I., 110

Don Juan de Austria, Spanish
cruiser, V., 8; explosion on, 17
Don Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish
cruiser, V., 8

Doty, Dr. Albert H., V., 250
Dover, Indian massacre at, I., 182
Dowager empress, V., 54: flight

of, from Peking, 58; return to
Peking, 67

Drake, Sir Francis, I., 58; V.,
283

Drummond, William, governor
of Carolinas, I., 152, 154, 209;
executed, 210

Drummond, Mrs. William, I., 210
Drysdale, Hugh, governor of
Maryland, I., 216
Duddington, Lieutenant, of the
Gaspé, I.. 345
Dudley, Joseph, governor of
Massachusets, I., 221, 240
Dunmore, Lord, loyalist, I., 367
Dunstan, Mr. and Mrs., I., 219

370

I., 134

Ebenezer, Georgia, founding of,
I., 255

Ecuyer, Captain, at Fort Pitt, I.,
328

Edmunds Bill, IV.,
Elkins, Dutch commander, I.,
340
93

92,

Eggleston, George Cary, Essay
on Life in the Colonies, II., iii
Electrograph machine. V., 244
Electric Tower, Buffalo Expo-
sition, V., 110

Electrical engineering, progress
in, V., 109

El Caney, assault on, IV., 397
Eliot, Rev. John, I., 112, 113
Elizabeth, first settlement in New
Jersey, I., 162
Elizabeth, Queen, I., 55, 57
Ellis, Seth H., nominated for
president, by People's Party of
Fusionists. V., 94
Ellis, Rev. William, English mis-
sionary, V., 285
Emancipation Proclamation, the,
III., 139
Embargo Act, passed by Con-
gress, II., 252; repealed, 254
Empire State Express, V., 237
Endicott, John, colonist, I., 109,
114, 121, 135
Endicott, Wm. C., sketch of, IV.,
152

English vessels in the Caribbean
Sea, V., 282

English, Wm. H., nominated for
vice-president, IV., 62
English merchants, in the Philip-
pines, V., 219

INDEX.

Enos, Colonel Roger, I., 368
Enriquez, Beatriz, wife of Colum-
bus, I., 10

Eppes, Mrs., daughter of Presi-
Eric the Red, navigator, I., 2
dent Jefferson, IV., 254
Erie Canal, the, II.,
Ericsson, John, III., 80
Etherington, Captain, seized by
315
Indians, I., 326

Events in American history, V.,
349

Eutaw Springs, battle of, II., 146
Evacuation Day, II., 185; centen-
nial celebration of, IV.,
Evans, Captain Robley D., of the
115-120
Iowa declines to accept the
sword of Captain Eulate of the
Vizcaya, IV., 388; biographical
sketch of, V., 47; portrait of,
154

Evans, John, governor of Penn-
sylvania, I., 189

Evarts, William Maxwell, por-
trait of, V., 268; sketch of, 269;
death of, 269

Ewall, General, at Gettysburg,

III., 190

Ewing, General, at Trenton, II.,

34

F

Filipinos, V., 20; attack on Ma-
Filipino Congress, V., 28
nila, V., 28; attempt to burn
Manila, 30; guerrilla warfare of,
32; losses of, 36
"Fighting Bob" Evans, V.,
Fillmore, Millard, elected vice-
47
president, II., 361; president,
364: death of, IV., 34
Fillmore, Mrs. Abigail Powers,
sketch of, IV., 279
Financial depression in 1897, IV.,
Fishes in the Philippines, V., 281
348; in 1827, V., 84
Fish, Hamilton, death of, V.,
Fiske, John, death of, V., 264
Fisher, capture of Fort, III., 302
Fisher, Mary, Quakeress, I., 133
394
Five Nations, the, I., 240
Flags of the patriots, I., 375-376
Flatiron Building, New York, V.,
255

Fleet, American, of warships, IV.,
368; Cape Verde, of Spanish
warships, 364; vessels in Ameri-
can, and Spanish, at Manila,
V., 7, 8

Fleet, Captain Henry, English
trader, I., 139

Fleming, Captain, killed at battle
Fletcher, governor of New York,
of Princeton, II., 43
Fleury, Captain, at capture of
I., 235
Stony Point, II., 87
Florida, named, I., 34; admitted
into Union, II., 345; brief his-
tory of, V., 312

Floyd, John R., Confederate gen-
eral, III., 40; cowardice of, 60
Flying machines, V., 240

Folsom, Frances, sketch of, IV.,
252; marriage of, to President
Cleveland, 272

Foote, Commodore, at New Mad-
rid, III. 65; captures Island
Number Ten, 66
Foraker, Joseph Lee, Senator,
portrait of, IV., 363
Forestry, V., 256
Forbes, General, proceeds against
Fort Du Quesne, I., 306

Forests in the Philippines, V.,
281

Forsyth, Colonel, at Wounded

Knee, IV., 294; charges against
him dismissed, 304
Fort Selkirk, IV., 89
Fox, George, founder of Quaker
France, special embassy from,
sect, I., 131
Franklin, General, checks Stone-
V., 158; aid to America, 159
wall Jackson, III., 128; at Fred-
ricksburg, 156
Franklin, Benjamin,
drafts
283;
a federal constitution,
291; sent to London, 344; envoy
to France, II., 33; sketch of, 55;
arranges treaty with France, 56,
57; arranges peace between

I.,

Franklin, James, publisher, I., 235
Franklin, Sir John, Arctic explor-
er, II., 366

Franklin, William, son of Ben-
jamin, I., 366; II., 160
Fredericksburg, battle of, III.,
156-159

Free trade, V., 83
Free Cuba, V., 184
Free Masonry, II., 320-322
Fremont, Colonel John C., de-
feats Mexicans, II., 350; explo-
rations of, 368; commands fed-
eral troops, III., 43; pursues
Jackson, 110; death of, IV., 313
Freydis, daughter of Eric the
Red, I., 5

Frobisher, Martin, navigator, I.,
54

Frye, Senator William P., por-
trait of, IV., 365

Fuller, Chief Justice, opinion on
Constitution, V., 167
Fulton, Robert, account of, II.,
243-247; portrait of, V., 248
Funston, Colonel, of the Twenti-
eth Kansas, promoted to rank
of brigadier-general for special
bravery, V., 33; portrait of, 203;
captures Aguinaldo, 204; ap-
pointed brigadier in the regular
army, 214

G

Gadsen, Christopher, patriot colo-
nel, II., I
Gage, General Thomas, quarters
British soldiers in Boston, I.,
342; governor of Massachusetts,
349; reports to England, 364;
superseded by Howe, 366
Galante, discovery of, I., 24
Gall, Sioux chief, IV., 43
Gallup, John, I., 119
Galveston, Texas, destruction of,
by hurricane, V., 71; view of,
after grade-raising is com-
pleted, 78, 79
Gardner, Miss Julia, marriage of,
to President Tyler, IV., 253
Garey, Francis, surveys Gulf
coast, I., 35

Garfield, James A., elected presi-
dent, IV., 82; sketch of, 63; se-
lects cabinet, 64; assassination
of, 60
Garland, Augustus H., sketch of,

IV., 152

IV., 123

Gates, Horatio, adjutant-general,
I., 359; receives Burgoyne's
surrender, II., 50; commands
southern department, 102; de-
feated at Camden, 103; super-
seded by Greene, 110
Gates, Sir Thomas, governor of
Jamestown, I., 71-75
Gatewood, Lieutenant C. B., ne-
gotiates with Apache Indians,
IV., 235

Gaylord, Dr. Harvey R. V., 247
Genet, Edward Charles, account
of, II., 211-214
Geneva tribunal, IV., 19
Georgia, settlement of. I., 250;
brief history of, V., 304
Geronimo, leader of Warm Spring
Indians, IV., 233

Gerry, Elbridge, commissioner to
France, II., 223; elected vice-
president, 268; sketch of, IV.,
194

Gerrymander, IV., 345
General Slocum, burning of, V.,
227

Germany, mission of expiation
to, V., 67

Gettysburg, battle of, III., 190-
195; anniversary of, IV., 225
Ghost dance, IV., 290
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, navigator,
I., 54, 55

Gillmore, General, bombards
Charleston, III., 226; at Lake
City, 239

Gist, Christopher, guide, I., 286
Gladwyn, Major, at Detroit, I.,
318-320

Godyn, Samuel, patroon, I., 91
Goffe, Colonel, regicide, I., 135,
136, 175

Gold, discovery of, in California,
II.,358

Gold discoveries in the north-
west, V., 119

Gold Democracy Party, V., 96
Gold production of the United
States, V., 172
Goldsborough, Commodore Louis
M., III., 62

Gomez, Maximo, Cuban general,
IV., 359
Gomez, Stephen, explorer, I., 35
Gooch, William, governor of
Maryland. I., 216

Good, Sarah, executed as a witch,
I., 202
Gookin, Charles, colonial govern-
or of Pennsylvania, I., 190
Gordon, Lieutenant, killed by In-
dians, I., 327

Gordon, General, attacks Fort
Steadman, III., 307, 314, 316
Gordon, Alexander, preacher, I.,
255
Gordon, Patrick, colonial govern-
or of Pennsylvania, I., 190

Gorges, Robert, governor of
New England, I., 107
Gorton, Samuel, colonist, I., 131
Gosnold, Bartholomew, attempts
to found colony, I., 60, 63
Governments, jealousy among,
V., 62

Gourgues, Dominique de, I., 51
Governor-General of Manila,
bombastic proclamation of, V.,

10

Granada, Archbishop of, I., 12
Grand Cañon of the Yukon, IV.,
85

Grand Embarkation, the, I., 255
"Grand Model," the, I., 154
Grant, Mrs. Julia Dent, IV., 258
Grant, General U. S., attempts to
open the Mississippi, III., 47;
takes forts Henry and Donel-
son, 59, 60; at Pittsburg Land-
ing, 66; before Vicksburg, 164;
at Grand Gulf, 177; besieges
Vicksburg, 198; at Chattanoo-
ga, 209; made lieutenant-gen-
eral, 254; plan of campaign,
275; at battle of the Wilderness,
276-278; at Spotsylvania Court
House, 279; repulsed at Cold
Harbor, 282; invests Peters-
burg, 283; pursues Lee, 311-
313; correspondence with Lee,
314; receives surrender, 318; is-
sues address to soldiers, 376;
nominated for president, IV.,
14; selects cabinet, 16; favors
annexation of Santo Domingo,
23; re-nominated for president,
27; makes tour around the
world. 52; personal and mili-
tary sketch of, 174; death of,
184; account of funeral, 184-187;
Gray, Professor Elisha, death of,
V., 267

Grayson, Private, V., 28
Grant, General Frederick D.,
statement of, regarding the
Philippines, V., 215
Greater New York, IV., 346
Great Britain, neutrality of, V.,
6

Great Eastern, the, IV., 6, 7
Greeley, Horace, bails Jefferson

Davis, III., 358; nominated for
president, IV., 27; death of, 27
Greely, Adolphus W., commands

Arctic expedition, IV., 123; ac-
count of travels, 124-142
Green, Lieutenant S. Dana, of the
Monitor, III., 82
Green, Thomas, colonial govern-
or of Maryland, I., 143
Greenback Party, IV., 46
Green Mountain Boys, capture
Ticonderoga. I., 375: II., 177
Greene, Nathaniel, leads patriots,
I., 357; made brigadier-general,
359; favors destroying New
York, II., 26; proceeds against