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 INDEX. Abenaki Indians, the, influence of the French cm, 101 Abercrombie, General, 126, 134 sq. Aberdeen, Earl of, 671 Abolition, of slavery, 589-602; compensated, 586 sq. Abolitionists, the, 387 sq. Abraham, the Heights of, 140 Acadia, settlement and early history of, 110-12; French intrigues in, 121 Acadians, expulsion of the, 122 Adams, Charles Francis, 610 Adams, John, President of United States, 146, 151, 154, 160, 315, 320, 324, 372 Adams, John Quincy, President of United States, 363, 365, 373, 374 Adams, Samuel, of Boston, 146, 161, 182, 197 ; his letters to the Boston Gazette, 160 Adet, Pierre Auguste, 320 Admiralty, Courts of, 184 sqq. Admiralty (British) decisions, 327 Agriculture, development of, 707 sq., 712 sq. Alabama and Kearsarge, fight of the, 566 Alabama controversy, the, 636 Alabama, formation of, 359 ; secession of, 446 Alaska, boundary of, 371; purchase of, 637 Albany Convention, the (1754), 69 Albany (Fort Orange), English conquest of, 39; Dutch reoccupation of, 41 Albemarle, Earl of, 34 Albemarle, the, torpedoing of, 564 Alcott, Bronson, 739 Alexander, Sir William, 75 Algonquins, French relations with the, 75, 76 Alien Acts, the, 322 Allen, governor of New Hampshire, 31 Amboyna, massacre of, 22 Amendments to the Constitution: the Thirteenth, 599 sq. ; the Fourteenth, 628 sq. ; the Fifteenth, 633 America, effect upon England of discovery of, 1; Church of England in, 57 sq. ; British and French claims in, 119 ; carrying trade of Europe in hands of (1805), 327 ; naval successes of, in war of 1812, 339, and her losses, 347 sq.; national character in, 724 sq. America, colonisation of : the English, chaps, i, u, passim ; the French, chap. in, passim "American" party, the, 425 Americans, character of the, 724 sq. Amherst, General Lord, 132, 137; his march to Montreal, 141, 143 Amherst, Sir Jeffery, 97 Ampudia, General, 394 Anderson, Major Eobert, 446, 450, 462 sq., 545 Andre", Major John, 226 Andros, Colonel Sir Edmund, colonial governor, 29, 30, 43, 47 Annapolis Convention, the (1786), 244, 312, 314 Ann, Cape, 15 Antietam, battle of, 482 Antilles, the French, 319 Anti-Masons, the, 379 Anti-Slavery Society, the American, 387, 423 Appeal, David Walker's, 386 sq. Appomattox, Lee's surrender at, 541 Aquedneck (Ehode Island), 20, 23, 24 Arbitration, the Venezuelan, 672 Arbitration Treaty (1897), the, 672 Architecture, American, 748 sq. Arista, General, 395 Arlington, Earl of, 9 Armed Neutrality, the, 233 Armies, the Northern and Southern, in the Civil War, 451 sq. Army, the United States (1812), 336 Arnold, Benedict, his invasion of Canada, 170; his treason, 226; in the British service, 230 Articles of Confederation, the, 235 sq., 249, 305 sqq. Ashburton, Lord, 391 "Assemblies," interference with, 181 Assistance, writs of, 177-81 Atlanta, capture of, 520-2 Atlanta, capture of the, 563 Atlantic Monthly, the, 746 Atlantic States, the, 267