ar with Spain, 234-235.
(_See also_ Civil War, Mexican War)

Washington, City of, site agreed on, 55;
Jefferson inaugurated in, 67;
burnt by British, 80;
Slave Trade abolished in, 126;
attack on, feared, 187

Washington, Booker, quoted, 212, 220

Washington, George, serves in French War, 10;
chosen to command American forces, 25;
his character and strategy, 26-27;
defeated at Long Island, 27;
abandons Philadelphia, 28;
defeats Tarleton at Cowpens, 31;
besieges Yorktown, 34;
presides over Convention, 42;
President, 51;
national confidence in, 52;
signs Bill for a National Bank, 57;
re-elected, 57;
declares U.S. neutral, 59;
suppresses "Whisky Insurrection," 61;
condemns Democratic societies, 61;
declines a third term, 62;
his farewell address, 62

Webster, Daniel, as an actor, 79, 100;
supports Force Bill, 101;
leagued with Clay and Calhoun, 102;
Secretary of State, 114;
supports Compromise of 1850..127;
death of, 139

Wellington, proposal to send to America, 83

West, the, opened up by Daniel Boon, 71;
its governing conditions, 71-72;
influence of, on Clay, 78;
Slavery in, 85;
deserts Clay for Jackson, 95;
Douglas a product of, 140-141;
Douglas appeals to, 174;
military qualities of, 196

West Virginia, cleared by McClellan, 181;
recognized as a State, 181

Whig Party, name adopted by Coalition against Jackson, 105;
committed to defence of Bank, 105;
defeat of, 105;
appropriateness of name for, 109;
abandonment of principles by, 113;
victory of, 114;
Tyler out of sympathy with, 114;
runs Taylor for President, 124;
disappearance of, 139, 145

Whitman, Walt, quoted, 173

Wilderness, the, Hooker trapped in, 192;
Lee fights Grant in, 198

Williamsburg, Hooker defeated at, 186

Wilkes, Captain, seizes Mason and Slidell, 182;
compliments to, 183

Wilmot Proviso, 122

Wilson, Woodrow, elected President, 236;
career and character of, 236;
his policy regarding European War, 238-239;
supported by nation in declaring war, 239

Wolfe, James, takes Quebec, 160

"X.Y.Z." Letters, 63

Yorktown Peninsula, Cornwallis retires to, 34;
McClellan lands on, 186

Yorktown, surrenders, 34;
McClellan besieges, 186

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