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 842 Index. Augusta (Georgia), 62, 219 Averysborough, battle of, 530 Bacon, Nathaniel, his revolt and death, 9 Balance of trade, between Great Britain and her colonies (1765), 183 Baldwin (American politician), 246 Baltic Sea, competition for trade of, 1, 4 Baltimore, British attack on, 344 ; the Civil War in, 453 Baltimore, George Calvert, first Lord, founder of Maryland, 31; Cecilius Cal- vert, second Lord, 31, 33; third Lord, 33, 34; fourth Lord, 34 Bank of the United States, 316, 351 sq., 382 sqq. Banking, rise of, 352 ; change in the system of, 571 Banking law, amendment of the, 674 Banks, deposits in, 715; "pet," and the surplus, 384 sq. ; the Southern and paper- money, 618 Banks, General, 506 Baptists, the, in Ehode Island, 57 Barbados, Quaker women exiled to, 25 ; Carolina colonists drawn from, 34, 35; English colony in, 78; population of, in seventeenth century, ib.; penal code in, 102 Barclay, Commander, defeat of, 340 Barnwell, Kobert W., 605 Barrington, William Wildman, Viscount, 142 Barren, Commodore, 329 Bartemeyer v. Iowa, 648 Bates, Edward, 450 Bathurst, Earl, 363, 364 Bayard-Chamberlain Treaty (1888), the, 659 Beaumarchais, P. A. C. de, author of the Mariage de Figaro, 210 Beauport, Montcalm's headquarters at, 138 Beauregard, General G. T., 465, 542 Beaver Dam, capture of American detach- ment at, 341 Beaver-fur, the medium of exchange in New York, 68 ; annual payment of, by French-Canadian colonists, 76 Bedford (American statesman), 246, 261 Belcher, Jonathan, governor of Massachu- setts, 65 Bellomont, Lord, governor of Massachu- setts, 64 Benjamin, Judah P., 604 Bentonville, battle of, 530 Berkeley, Bishop, 58 Berkeley, Lord, 41, 47 Berkeley, Sir William, governor of Virginia, 8, 9, 34, 59 Berkeley, Vice-Admiral, 329 Berlin, conference at (1889), the, 663 Berlin Decree, Napoleon's (1806), 330 Bermudas, shipwreck of Sir G. Somers on the, 5 Bernard, governor of Massachusetts, 152, 153 Bienville, his efforts for the settlement of Louisiana, 88 Bigot, Canadian Intendant, 143 "Billion dollars Congress," the, 665 Biloxi (Louisiana), 88 Birney, James GiUespie, 387, 388 Bismarck, Prince, 661, 663 Elaine, Secretary, 644, 649, 666 Blair, Francis P., 535 Blair, Montgomery, 450 Blanco, General, 675 Bland- Allison Act (1878), the, 643 Blockade, the Federal, and its effects, 550 sqq., 558, 620 sq. Blockade-running, 620 Blockades, British, 327, 329, 330 Booth, John Wilkes (the assassin), 545, 547 Boscawen, Admiral, 133 Boston (Mass.), a day of humiliation held at, 27 ; journalism at, 60 ; population of, in 1663, 75 ; revolutionary party at, 146 ; resistance to the Stamp Act, 149; tea riot at, 159 ; British evacuation of, 172 Boston Athenaeum, the, 744 Boston Bay, Puritan settlements along, 16, 18 Boston Gazette, the: Samuel Adams's letters to, 160 Boston Massacre, the, 153 sq. " Boston orators," the, 743 sq. Bougainville, L. A. de, 126, 137, 139, 140, 143 Boundary dispute: with Spain, 362; the Venezuelan, 670 sq. Bouquet (Swiss officer), 97, 136 Bourlamaque (French general), 126, 143 Braddock, General, hia expedition against Fort Duquesne, 123, 124 Bradford, William, governor of New Ply- mouth, 12, 14 Bradstreet (colonial officer), destroys Fort Frontenac, 135 sq. Bragg, General Braxton, 506 sqq. Brandywine, battle of, 213 Branford, in New Haven, abandoned by inhabitants, 26 Brearly (American politician), 246, 252 Breckinridge, John C., 439 Breda, treaty of (1667), 89 Bristow, Secretary, 644 British squadrons in N. American waters, strength of (1811-15), 338 Brock, Major-General, 337 Broke, Captain, 342 Brook, Lord, 18, 21 Brooks, Preston, his assault on Charles Sumner, 430 Brown, Charles Brockden, 741 Brown, John, raid of, 439 Brown, Joseph E., governor of Georgia, 605 Browne, John and Samuel : their expulsion from Massachusetts, 16 Bryan, William J., 673 Bryant, William Cullen, 742 Buccaneers, the, in the West Indies, 85