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 Index* 853 Pretender, the Young (Charles Edward), 116 Prevost, General, governor of East Florida, 219 Prevost, Colonel (brother of preceding), 219 Prevost, Sir G., governor of British North America, 335, 338, 343 Price, General, 460 Prices, rise of, during the Civil War, 6*17 Prideaux, General, 137, 141 Prince Edward Island, see Saint Jean, lie de Privy Council, the: Massachusetts Com- pany before, 17 ; Franklin before, 157 Proctor, Colonel, 339, 341 Protection, 355 sq., 375, 635, 664, 699, 721 Protocol, Spanish-American Peace, 682 Providence (Bhode Island), history of General Assembly of, 24 "Public Credit, Act to strengthen the," 634 Puritans and Puritanism, 8, 11, 726 Quadruple Alliance, the (1815), 366 Quakers, the, in New England, 25, 26, 57 ; in Pennsylvania, 49 Quebec, the French at, 71, 74, 76, 81; Sir W. Phipps' attack on, 90; popu- lation of, at beginning of 18th cent., 94; siege and capture of, by Sir James Wolfe, 137-141; French attempts to recover, 142 Queenstown (Canada), American attack on, 338 Quincy, Josiah, of Boston, 154 Quinipiac river, 20 Quo warranto^ writ of, issued against Virginia Company, 7 Kadicals, the, 629 Railroads, American, 694, 705 ; mileage and traffic, 714 sq. Railroad traffic, American, 715 Railway companies, power of, 706 Ralegh, Sir Walter, his discovery of Virginia, 3 Rambouillet Decree, Napoleon's (1810), 332 Eamezay, de, governor of Quebec, 141 Randolph, Edward, his report on the New Englanders, 28 Randolph, G. W., 605 Randolph, John, governor of Virginia, 246, 268, 273, 284, 285, 292, 298 ; his resolu- tions, 246-302 Rathbone, Major, 545 Rawdon, Lord, 229, 230 Raynal, J. (French historian), 93, 96 Razilly, governor of Acadia, 110 Reaction, periods of, 638-47, 643 sq. Read, George, 246, 252, 258 Recollets, the Franciscan, in Canada, 72 Reconstruction Acts (1867), the, 629 Reconstruction, political, chap, xx, passim Recruiting, Federal system of, 572-5 Red Indians, see Indians, American Red River expeditions, the, 520, 559 Refunding Act (1870), the, 634 Regan, John R., 605 "Regulators," the, 313 Representation: "virtual," in the British Parliament, 193-6; debate on, at the Constitutional Convention, 251 sqq. ; Franklin's plan of, 254 Representatives, House of : rule of suffrage in, 255-9 ; basis of representation in, 265 Republican National Convention (1896), the, 672 Republicans, see Federal Republicans ; the party of, in the Southern States and its organisation, 632 ; its failure, 640 sqq. Resources, natural, of the United States, 704 Restoration, the English, and Virginia, 9; and New England, 26; and Maryland, 34; and Newfoundland, 52 Revenue Collection Bill (1829), the, 382 Revenue, disposal of surplus, 384 sq. Revision, Council of, 293 sq. Revolution, the American, chaps, v-vin, passim, 730 Revolution, the English (1688), and Virginia, 10; and New England, 30; and New York, 43, 44 Revolution, the French, American sympathy with, 317 sq. Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, colony of, 24; Crown's charter to, 26, 54; trade and industry, 56; religious con- ditions, 57; education in, 58; resistance to Stamp Act, 149; disaffection in, 163; French blockade of, 218; paper-money in, 312 Riall, Major-General, 343 Rice, export of, from South Carolina, 56 Richard and Leander, affair of the, 328 Richardson, Secretary, 643 Richelieu, Armand J. du Plessis, Cardinal, creates the Company of New France, 73 sq. Richmond, 471, 485; fall of, 530-9 Rigby, Edward, his claim to the soil of Maine, 24 Eights : the Massachusetts Declaration of, 181, 239; civil and political, foundation of, 190; Bills or Declarations of, 237-40 Kiley, General, 402 Roanoke (in North Carolina), 3 Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 149 Rodney, Admiral, 231 Roman Catholics, in Maryland, disfranchise- ment of, 33 Rose, Sir John, 636 Rosecrans, General, 457, 507-10 Ross, Major-General, 344 Rouge, Cap, 139 Royal Americans, the, 128, 137, 138 Rum, manufacture of, in the American colonies, 67 Rush, Richard (American minister), 369 543