in and
the United States, 62-64. =Bib.=: Bancroft, _History of the North-West
Coast_; Nicolay, _Oregon Territory_; Foster, _Bibliography of Oregon_ in
_Mag. of Amer. Hist._, vol. xxv.

=Oregon Boundary Question.= =D= Settled in 1846, 27; occupation of the
Columbia by the Astorians made basis of United States claims, 72; Oregon
Treaty, 1846, 114; fundamental elements of dispute, 147-149; the Spanish
title, 148; the collision at Nootka, 148; Gray's exploit strengthens
United States claim, 148; negotiations between Great Britain and the
United States, 149-150; United States flag raised over Astoria, 150;
agreement of Oct. 20, 1818, 151; Florida Treaty, 1819, and the Spanish
title in the west, 153; negotiations reopened at London, 154; attitude
of British and American governments, 154; compromise of 1827, 155;
popular feeling in United States, 156; "fifty-four forty or fight," 157;
arbitration refused, 157; 49th parallel proposed by Britain as boundary,
157; analyses of opposing claims, 159-168; mutual ignorance concerning
Oregon, 169-170; British and American diplomacy, 171-172; negotiations
and treaty of 1846, 275; history of the dispute, 276-283. =BL= Treaty
removes any immediate prospect of rupture with the United States, 272.
=E= Threatening aspect of dispute leads to selection of a military
governor; Lord Cathcart, 38; settlement of, 40. =Md= Settled by treaty
of June 15, 1846, 178. =Bib.=: _Lit. Amer. Hist._; Kingsford, _History
of Canada_; Nicolay, _Oregon Territory_; Gray, _History of Oregon_;
Hodgins, _British and American Diplomacy Affecting Canada_; Begg,
_History of British Columbia_; Schafer, _History of the Pacific
North-West_; _History and Digest of International Arbitrations to which
United States has been a Party_; Egerton, _Canada_.

=Orehaoue.= =F= Cayuga chief, brought back from France by Frontenac,
237; services rendered by, 315, 339.

=Orford, Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of= (1717-1797). Sat in Parliament,
1741-1767; established a private press at Strawberry Hill, at which he
printed his various works. =Index=: =WM= His statement regarding
Townshend, 74; on fall of Quebec, 238. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._

=Oriskany.= =Dr= Battle of, Indians lose heavily in, 173.

=Orleans, Jean Baptiste Gaston, Duke of= (1608-1660). =Ch= Conspires
against his brother Louis XIII, 215.

=Orleans, Isle of.= In the St. Lawrence River, below Quebec. It was
first named by Jacques Cartier, in 1535, the Island of Bacchu