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 Index. 857 Wallace, General Lew, 631 War of 1812, the, 334, chap, x, passim; American naval successes in, 347 Ward, Artemas, 168 Warren, Admiral, 115, 116 Warren, James, of Boston, 146, 151 Warrington, George, 59 Warrington, Harry, 59 Washington, George, President of United States, 120-5, 136, 167, 172, chap, vn, passim, 303, 315 sqq., 328 Washington, capture of, 344 ; Federal con- centration at, 464; threatened by Con- federates, 531 Washington, treaty of (1871), 658 Wasp and Frolic, fight of the, 339 Waxhaws (in Carolina), slaughter of an American force at; 224 Wayne, Anthony, 220, 357 Weaver, General, 665 Webb, General, 126, 129, 130 Webster-Ashburton Treaty, the, 391 Webster, Daniel, 390, 412, 418, 743 sq. ; his Reply to Hayne, 744 Wedderburn, Alex. (Earl of Eosslyn), 156 sq. Weeden, see Trevett v. Weeden Weitzel, General, 539 Welles, Gideon, 450 Wesley, Charles, in Georgia, 63 Wesley, John, in Georgia, 63 West, Company of the, 70, 79, 86 West India Company, the Dutch, 13, 22, 40, 86 West Indies, the: French and English claims in, 74; buccaneers in, 85; the Company of the West in, 86; develop- ment of, 91 ; trade of, 96 ; ports closed to American ships, 309, 358. and reopened, 320 ; the French, American trade with, 358 West New Jersey, 47 West Point (on the Hudson), Arnold's attempted surrender of, 226 West, the : exploration of, 326 ; new States in, 267, 308, 359 ; the migration to, and its results, 357-62, 689 ; the Civil War in, 457-63; rapid settlement of, 695; needs and difficulties of, 691, 693; recent progress in, 711 West Virginia, conquest of, 456 sq. ; adop- tion of emancipation in, 594 Western exploration, 326 Western lands, cessions of, 308 Westminster, treaty of (1674), 41 Weyler, General, 676 Whalley, Edward, 25, 26 Whately, Thomas, Governor Hutchinson's letters to, 156 Wheat, production of, 697, 709, 713 Wheelwright, John, 17, 18 Whigs, the American, 188, 197-202, 202 sqq., 384 Whitby, Captain, 328 White, John (incumbent of Dorchester), 15 White (leader of Virginian settlers), 3 Whitman, Walt, 747 Whitmore, Brigadier-General, 132 Whitney, Eli, 351 ; his cotton-gin, 688 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 746 Wilderness, the Civil War in the, 514-20 Wilkinson, General, 341, 343 William and Mary College, foundation of, 59 Williams, Koger, 17, 19, 24 WiUiamsburg, American defeat at, 341; battle of, 474 Williamson (American politician), 246, 255, 267, 283 Wilmington, importance of, during the Civil War, 556 sq. Wilmot Proviso, the, 397 Wilson-Gorman Bill (1894), the, 669 Wilson, James (American politician), 246, 250-96, 301 Wilson Tariff, the, 669 Winchester, General, 339 Winder, General, 344 Windward Isles, the, 96 Winslow, Edward, governor of Plymouth, 13 Winslow, John, 30 Winthrop, John, governor of Massachu- setts, 15, 16 Winthrop, John (son of preceding), governor of Connecticut, 18, 26 Wolfe, General Sir James, 132-141 Woodford, General, 677 sq. Wool, General, 396 Wool, production of, 709 Woollen manufactures, the American, 376 Worden, Lieutenant, 562 World-Power, the United States as a, chap. xxi, passim Writs of assistance, the, 177 sqq. "XYZ dispatches, the," 321 Yamassee Indians, the: their attack on South Carolina, 38 Yancey, William L., 605 Yates (American politician), 246, 304 Yeardley, George, governor of Virginia, 6 Yeo, Captain, 341 York, Duke of, 38, 41, 47 York (Toronto), capture of, 341 Yorke, Sir Joseph, 234 Yorktown, the capitulation of, 231; siego of, 474 Zollicoffer, General F. K., 463 Zwingli, Ulrich, 11 CAMBRIDGE : PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.