INDEX
A
Aberdeen, fourth Earl of, Foreign
Secretary
Peelite
Prime Minister
resigns
and Oregon Treaty
Abu Klea, Battle of
Adams, John Quincy, and Monroe
Doctrine
Presidency of
Addington, Henry (later Viscount
Sid-mouth)
Adelaide, Queen of William IV
Adelaide, South Australia
Afghan War, First
Second
Africa, partition of
Agriculture, in Southern states
in Great Plains
problems of American
Alabama, cotton-growing in
splits Democrats
secession of
coal and iron of
Alabama, the
settlement with Britain over
Alamo, the
Alaska, Russians occupy
U. S. purchases
Albert, Prince Consort
and Great Exhibition
and Palmerston; and the Trent
affair
death of; his
influence on Victoria
Alexandria, bombardment of
Alleghany Mountains
Alma, Battle of the
Alsace, French Army of
ceded to Germany
American Anti-Slavery Society
American Civil War, repercussions of, in
Canada
first shots of
opposing forces of
course of
European attitude towards
object of
peace talks during
and of
American System,
Anderson, Major Robert
Andrassy, Count Julius
Anglo-French Convention (1898)
Anti-Corn Law League
Antietam, Battle of the
results of, abroad
Appalachian Mountains
Appomatox Court House
Aquia Creek
Arabi Pasha, Colonel
Arizona
Arkansas, and secession
Confederate army in
Arkansas Post
Arlington, Virginia
Armistead, General L. A.
Arrears Bill (Ireland)
Artisans Dwelling Act
Ashanti War
Ashland, Virginia
Asquith, H. H.
Atlanta
Attwood, Thomas
Auckland, New Zealand
Australia, convict settlements in
gold in
early knowledge of
Cook’s discovery of
wool trade of
squatters in
settlement of states of
self-government in
federation in
Austria, and peace with France
in Holy Alliance
and Greek revolt
Italian revolt against domination by
1848 revolution in
defeat of, by Prussia
drawn into war against Denmark
condominium with Prussia for
Schleswig-Holstein
refuses to ally herself to France
Austria-Hungary; in Triple Alliance
B
Baden-Powell, Colonel Robert (later
Lord)
Bagehot, Walter
Balaclava, Battle of
Balfour, A. J., in Fourth Party
Gladstone’s letter of 1885 to
Irish Secretary
First Lord of Treasury
mentioned
Balkan States, under Turkish rule
Russia and
Lord Randolph Churchill on independence
for
Ballarat, Victoria
Ballot Act
Baltic Sea, naval expedition to
Baltimore
Bank of England, advises against return to
gold standard
run on
Banks, Sir Joseph
Banks, Nathaniel P., Shenandoah command
of
at Cedar Mountain
Bantus, raids of
Baring, Evelyn (later Earl of Cromer)
Basutos
Batavian Republic
Bathurst, third Earl
Bathurst, New South Wales, gold at
Bathurst Plains
Bavaria, joins in war against France
Bazaine, Marshal Achille
Beaconsfield, Earl of-see Disraeli,
Benjamin
Beaufort, South Carolina
Beauregard, General Pierre, bombards Fort
Sumter
at Manassas
at Bull Run
at Shiloh
mentioned
Bechuanaland
Bedford, Sixth Duke of
Behring Sea
Belgium, demands autonomy
threat of French intervention in
independent kingdom
France of Napoleon III and
Bell, Senator John
Bendigo, New South Wales
Bengal Army of East India Company
Bentham, Jeremy
Bergami, M.
Berlin, Congress of
Berlin-Baghdad Railway
Besika Bay
Bessarabia
Birmingham, Chamberlains “Municipal
Socialism” in
Bismarck, Count Otto von, works for
unification of Germany
cultivates Russian friendship
and war with Denmark
prepares for war with Austria
visits Napoleon III, prepares for war with
France
at Sedan
and relations with Britain
at Congress of Berlin; Triple Alliance
of
Black Sea, Russia and
naval action in, in Crimean War
Black Week,
Blanketeers,
Bloemfontein, Convention of
Conference at
capture of
Blood River, Battle of
Blue Ridge, Virginia
Boer War-see South African War Boers,
in conflict with British
Great Trek of
republics established by
of Transvaal
world sympathy for
and Uitlanders
invade British South Africa
preliminary successes of
defeat of
guerrilla warfare of
concentration camps for
peace terms granted to
Bohemia
Boomplaats, Battle of
Boone, Daniel
Bosnia
Boston, anti-slavery movement in
Botany Bay
Botha, General Louis
Bourbon rule, Spanish revolt against
end of French
overthrown in Naples and Sicily
and South America
ended in Spain
Bowling Green, Battle of
Boycott, Captain
Bradlaugh, Charles
Bragg, General Braxton, at Shiloh
at Murfreesboro
at Chattanooga and Chickamauga
character of
plan of
Brandy Station, Battle of
Breckinridge, John C.
Bright, John
on Disraeli
on American Civil War
Brisbane
Britain, moderating influence of
social problems of Industrial Revolution
in
economic difficulties of
revival of industry and trade in
party system in; South American policy
of
intervenes in Portugal
intervenes in Greece
agitation for Reform in
weakened position of monarchy in
Greatest industrial Power
Italian sympathies of
prosperity of
foreign trade of
and Russian aims in East
supports Turkey
in Crimean War
emigration from
increasing population of
colonies of
seizes Cape Colony
Australian Land Acts of
treaty of, with Maoris
settlement of disputes with United
States
attitude of, to American Civil War
Confederate ships built in
and war for Schleswig-Holstein
and Seven Weeks War
and Franco-Prussian War
colonial quarrels with France
primary education in
results of extended franchise in
awakes to German menace
improved relations with United States
improved relations with France
at war with Boers
naval supremacy of
generous terms of, to Boers
leader of world
British Army, in Crimea
intolerable conditions in
Herbert’s reforms
small size of
Cardwell’s reforms of
no conscription in
British Columbia
British East Africa Company
British Empire, founded by accident
slavery abolished in
Disraeli’s conception of
expansion of, under Salisbury
Chamberlain and
Queen Victoria the symbol of
British Guiana boundary dispute
British North America Act
British South Africa Company
Brougham, Henry, and Queen Caroline
and Parliamentary Reform
Brown, John
Bryan, William Jennings
Buchanan, James, Presidency of
Southern sympathies of
supports Lincoln
Buell, General Don Carlos
Buford, General Napoleon B.
Bulgaria
Bulgarian atrocities
Bull Run River
Bull Run, Battle of
failure to exploit
second battle of
Buller, General Sir Redvers
Burns, Anthony
Burns, John
Burnside, General Ambrose E., success of, in
North Carolina
at Antietam
placed in command
at Fredericksburg
takes Knoxville
Butler, General Benjamin F., occupies
Baltimore
Butt, Isaac
Byron, Lord
C
Cabot, Sebastian
Calhoun, Senator John C.
California, gold in
conquest of
admission to Union
railway link with East
Cambridge, Duke of, and Army reform
Cambridge University, abolition of religious
tests at
Campbell, General Sir Colin
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry
Canada, loyalists from United States
in
gold in
Upper and Lower, disturbances in
United States invasion of
Durham’s report on
progress in
treaty of, with United States
extension of
becomes Dominion
fixing boundaries of
rights of American fishermen in waters
of
Canada Act (1840)
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canberra
Canning, Earl, Governor-General of India;
Viceroy
Canning, George
enmity between Castlereagh and
resignation of
advocates Free Trade
Peel the rival of
Foreign Secretary
against Parliamentary Reform
Spanish policy of
New World policy of
and intervention in Portugal
and Greek revolt
Prime Minister
death of
Russian policy of
mentioned
Canning, Stratford
Canterbury, New Zealand
Cape Colony, Dutch settlement of
British acquire
representative Parliament in
Rhodes premier of
Boers in
Boers invade
Cape Town
Parliament in
Rhodes’ address to Loyalists of
Cardwell, Edward
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Carnarvon, fourth Earl of
Carnegie, Andrew
Caroline, Queen of George IV
“Carpet-bag” Governments
Cartwright, John
Cashtown, Pennsylvania
Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount (later
second Marquess of Londonderry), character of
Foreign Secretary
at Congress of Vienna
supported by George IV, death of
against intervention in Spain
mentioned
Catholic Emancipation, Whigs favour
splits Tories
Peel against
motions for Bill of
and Ireland
Act of
Cato Street Conspiracy
Cavendish, Lord Frederick
Cavour, Count
Cawnpore
Cedar Mountain, Battle of
Cemetery Ridge
Centerville, Pennsylvania
Chaka, Zulu monarch
Châlons
Chamberlain, Joseph, Municipal Socialism
of
Gladstone and
at Board of Trade
Unauthorised Programme of
and Home Rule
supports Salisbury
Colonial Secretary
bids for alliance with Germany
and South African problem
Chambersburg, Pennyslvania
Champion’s Hill, Battle of
Chancellorsville, Battle of
Chandler, Zachariah
Charleston, Democratic split in
Major Anderson at
threat to
defence of
damage to
Charlotte, Queen of George III
Charlotte, Princess
Chartism
Chase, Salmon P.
Chattanooga, key position of
Bragg covers
taking of
Federal force blockaded in
relief of
Cherbourg, battle of
Chesapeake Bay, amphibious movement
down
Chicago
Chickahominy River
Chickamauga, Battle of
Chickasaw Bluff
Chilianwala, Battle of
China, Russian threat to
Church of England, position of
Established
in nineteenth century
Church of Ireland, disestablishment of
Churchill, Lord Randolph
demands relief of Gordon
and Irish question
on Home Rule Bill
Leader of House and Chancellor of
Exchequer
clashes with Salisbury
resignation of
Cincinnati
Civil Rights Bill, American
Civil Service, reform of
Clarendon, Lord, and Crimean War
Clay, Senator Henry, “American System”
of
leader of National Republicans
compromise proposal of
mentioned
Clayton-Buiwer Treaty
Cleveland, Grover, Presidency of
and Venezuelan boundary question
Cobbett, William
Cobden, Richard
Codrington, Admiral Sir Edward
Coercion Acts (Ireland)
Cold Harbour, Battle of
Colenso, Battle of
Colonisation Commissioners for South
Australia
Colorado
Columbia, South Carolina
Columbus, Ohio
Commons, House of, Canadian
duels between Gladstone and Disraeli
in
Irish Members swing vote in
working-class representation in
first Socialist Member of
Commonwealth, the
Commune, the Paris
Compensation for Disturbance Bill ;
Concentration camps in South Africa
Concert of Europe, breaking of; Gladstone
aims at
Confederacy, organization of
army of
Virginia joins
additional states join
possibility of foreign recognition of
Union blockade of
weaknesses of
missed opportunity of
coastal losses of
Lincoln proclaims emancipation of slaves
in
defeated at Gettysburg
Western states of
defeated in West
ruin in states of
legal status of states of
Confederate Army
Generals of
conscription to
at Bull Run
on defensive
falling off in
dispersal of
See also Northern Virginia, Army
of
Confederate Navy, Merrimac’s
exploits
commerce-raiders of
Congress, refuses to seat Confederate
representatives
Joint Committee on Reconstruction of
Radical majority in both Houses of
Congress, the
Conscription, in Confederacy
in Union
in Europe
Conservative Party, Peel and
Confederate sympathies of
Disraeli “captures Queen for
Disraeli and
social reforms of
reorganisation of
and Irish question
in office for twenty years
dependent on support of Liberal
Unionists
Constantinople, Russian threat to ;
conference at
Convention system in American politics
Conyngham, Marchioness
Cook, Captain James
Co-operative movement, in New Zealand; in
United States
“Copperheads,”
Corinth, Mississippi
Corn Laws, of 1815, bickering over;
abolition of
Corporation Act, repeal of
Cotton, famine in, due to Civil War ;
revival of industry
Cowper, seventh Earl, Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland
Crimean War events leading to state of Army
in ; results of
Crimes Act (Ireland)
Cromer, Evelyn Baring, first Earl of
Cronje, Piet
Cross, Richard
Cross Keys, Battle of
Crystal Palace
Cuba
Culpeper, Virginia; Court House
Culp’s Hill
Cumberland, Army of the
Cumberland, the
Cumberland River; Lee follows valley
of
Curtis, George
Cyprus
Czechs, risings of
D
Dalhousie, first Marquess of
Damaras
Danube, River, Russian aims in valley of;
Russians driven from; Russia extends to mouth of
Dardanelles, closed to foreign ships ;
British fleet sent to; Russian move to
Darling Downs
Darwin, Charles
Davis, Jefferson, in Mexican War; demands
protection for slavery ; President of Confederacy ; orders
bombardment of Fort Sumter; as leader in war; makes Richmond his
capital; on defensive ; holds coastal garrisons; watches at Seven
Pines; hampers Lee; vetoes moving Arkansas army; fails to make Lee
commander; replaces Johnston; appoints Lee Commander-in-Chief;
leaves Richmond; capture of; mentioned
Davitt, Michael
De la Rey, General J. H.
De Wet, General C. R.
Death duties
Decatur, Alabama
Delane, J. T.
Delaware, and secession
Delhi, during Mutiny
Democratic Federation
Democratic Party, birth of; splits on
slavery; against Emancipation Edict; McClellan as candidate for;
South votes for; Populists and
Denmark, war between Prussia and
Derby, Fourteenth Earl of, leader of Tories;
Prime Minister; and Disraeli’s Reform Bill; resigns
Derby, fifteenth Earl of
Derbyshire, riots in
Dervishes, under Mahdi; under Khalifa
Dewey, Commodore George
Dickens, Charles
Dillon, John
Dingaan, Zulu chieftain
Disraeli, Benjamin (later Earl of
Beacons-field); on Canning; novels of ; denounces Peel; on
Palmerston; seeks Gladstone’s cooperation; leader of Tories; Tory
democracy of; Reform Bill of; Prime Minister; and American Civil
War; advises detachment from European affairs; on German
Revolution; versus Gladstone; and Queen Victoria; on
Gladstoneâs first Ministry; social reforms of; Imperial policy of;
and Eastern Question; party organisation of; death of ; annexes
Transvaal; mentioned
Dissenters
“Doctrine of lapse” (India)
Doornkop
Douglas, Stephen A., and transcontinental
railway; Presidential candidate; supports Lincoln
Draft riots
Drummond Wolff, Sir Henry
Durban
D’Urban, Sir Benjamin
Durham, John Lambton, first Earl of
Dutch settlers in South Africa ; discovery
of Australia. See also Boers
Dutch East India Company
E
Early, General Jubal A.
East India Company, India under ; Bengal
Army of; loyal armies of; abolition of rule of
East Point, Georgia
Eastern Question; origin of ; Russia
and
Education Act, Forster’s
Egypt, purchase of Suez Canal shares from;
revolt of Arabi Pasha in; British intervention in ; Sudan revolts
against ; Army of
Eldon, John Scott, first Earl of, Lord
Chancellor; on state of monarchy; mentioned
Elgin, James Bruce, eighth Earl of
Emancipation Edict
England, disaffection in; in 1848, politics
in mid-Victorian ; religious preoccupations in; slave trade of.
See also Britain
Enlistment Act
Erie Canal
Erie, Lake
Eupatoria
Evolution, theory of
Ewell, Richard S.
F
Fabian Society
Factory Acts
Fair Oaks, Battle of
Farmers’ Alliances (United States)
Farragut, Admiral David G.
Fashoda incident
Federal Army; changes in generalship of;
invasion routes for; routed at Bull Run ; rifled guns of ; of
Mississippi; coastal successes of; and McClellan; desertion and
absenteeism in; conscription to ; unity of command in ; occupation
of Southern states by See also Potomac, Army of
Federal Bank
Federal Government, slave-owning states
remaining to; unified control of; Joint Committee of relations
between McClellan and ; crisis between British Government and;
tariff policy of; neglect of the farmer by
Federal Navy; arrests Confederate agents on
Trent ; at Yorktown; in conflict with the Merrimac;
in Mississippi; and Alabama
Ferdinand VII, King of Spain
Fish River
Fitzgerald, Vesey
Fitzherbert, Maria
Five Forks, Battle of
Florida, purchased from Spain; secession of;
"carpet-bagger" Government of
Floyd, John Buchanan
Force Act
Forrest, General Nathan B.
Forster, W. E.; Education Act of
Fort Donelson, Tennessee
Fort Henry, Tennessee
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Fortress Monroe, Virginia; landings at;
embarkation of McClellan’s army at
Fourteenth Amendment
Fourth Party
Fox, Charles James
France, peace with; army of occupation in;
intervenes in Spain; agrees not to intervene in South America;
intervenes in Greece; July Revolution in; danger of intervention
of, in Belgium ; 1848 Revolution in; foreign trade of; in Crimean
War; Nice and Savoy ceded to; commercial treaty with; and New
Zealand; slave trade of; and war for Schleswig-Holstein; German
threat to; and Spanish succession; at war with Prussia; harsh terms
for; British colonial quarrels with; and Egypt; African interests
of; improved relations with Britain; Navy of
Franchise, extension of; and increase in
education. See also Reform Bill
Franchise Acts; Disraeli’s ;
Gladstone’s
Francis Joseph, Emperor of
Austria-Hungary
Franco-Prussian War
Frankfort
Parliament at
; Bismarck the Prussian representative
at
Franklin, Kentucky
Frayser’s Farm, Battle of
Frederick, Maryland
Frederick William IV, King of Prussia
Fredericksburg; Battle of; Sedgwick at; Free
trade, Pitt’s policy of; Peel and ; Gladstone and
Freedman’s Bureau Bill
Frémont, General John C.
French, General Sir John
Friendly Islands
“Frontier, the,”
Fugitive Slave Law
; Northern defiance of
G
Gaines’s Mill, Battle of
Gambetta, Leon
Garibaldi, Giuseppi
Garrison, William Lloyd
Geneva Convention (1864)
George III, King of Great Britain, madness
of; sons of; death of
George IV, King, as Regent; marriages of;
his hatred for Princess Caroline; coronation of; opposes
recognition of South American republics ; chooses successor to Lord
Liverpool; opposed to Catholic Emancipation; death of
George, David Lloyd
Georgia, secession of; righting in;
Confederates driven back into; Sherman devastates
German Confederation, and
Schleswig-Holstein; eliminating Austria from
Germany, revolts in; attempt to unite;
foreign trade of unification of; menace of powerful; and Jameson
raid; African interests of; Heligoland ceded to; in Triple Alliance
; penetration of Asia Minor by; Chamberlain bids for alliance with;
creation of Navy of; rise of, to world-power
Gettysburg, Battle of
Gladstone, Herbert
Gladstone, W. E.; Disraeli seeks
co-operation of; Prime Minister ; Confederate sympathies of;
versus Disraeli; moral fervour of; converted to Home Rule ;
relations with Queen Victoria; in semi-retirement; no social
reformer; and Empire; on Bulgarian horrors; Midlothian Campaign of
; on social differences of parties; Whig sympathies of ; South
African policy of; Egyptian policy of ; and Gordon; his crusade for
Ireland ; and Parnell ; resigns; incurs enmity of Chamberlain; Home
Rule Bills of; makes concessions to Radicals ; popularity of
Glendale, Battle of
Glenelg, Lord
Goderich, first Viscount
Gold, in Australia; in Canada; in United
States; in New Zealand; in ; in Klondike
Gold Coast, slave-raids into
Gold standard, in Britainin the United
States
Goldie, Sir George
Gordon, General Charles; on Ireland;
avenging of
Gordon Riots
Gordonsville, Virginia
Gorst, John
Gortchakov, Prince
Goschen, George
Grand Gulf, Mississippi
Grange, the
Granger laws
Grant, General Ulysses S., in Mexican War;
seizes Fort Henry and Fort Donelson; at Shiloh; attacks Vicksburg ;
given command in West; given complete command; plan of; campaign
of, against Lee; ruthlessness of; takes Richmond; Lee surrenders
to; Presidency of
Granville, second Earl
Gravelotte, Battle of
Great Exhibition
Great Lakes, disarmament on
Great Plains, cultivation of; free soil and
slavery in; white settlement of
Great Trek
Greece, War of Independence of ;
intervention in; and Turkey
Greeley, Horace
Greenback Party
Greville, Charles
Grey, second Earl, and Princess Caroline;
and franchise reform; Prime Minister ; demands creation of new
peersretires
Grey, third Earl
Guam
Gurkhas
H
Hagerstown, Maryland
Halleck, General Henry W., caution of;
military adviser to Lincoln; in command in West; General-in-Chief ;
and McClellan; refuses to withdraw garrisons ; and Hooker; and
Rosecrans
Hamilton, Alexander
Hampton Roads, peace talks in
Hanover, at war with Denmark; absorbed by
Prussia
Harcourt, Sir William, at Gladstoneâs
retirement; Chancellor of the Exchequer; mentioned
Hargraves, Edward
Harpers Ferry; Brown liberates slaves at;
Confederates hold ; recovered by Federal Army; Jackson
captures
Harriman, E. H.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Harrison, Benjamin
Harrison’s Landing
Hartington, Marquess of (later eighth Duke
of Devonshire), distrusts Gladstone; and rescue of Gordon; leads
Liberal Unionists
Hatteras Inlet
Hauhans, cult of
Havana
Havelock, General Sir Henry
Hawaii
“Hawarden Kite,”
Hayes, Rutherford B., Presidency of
Hazel Grove
Heligoland
Henry Hill, the
Herbert, Sidney; on Whigs
Hereros
Hertzog, General J. B. M.
Herzegovina
Hesse
Hicks Beach, Sir Michael
Hill, General Ambrose P., at Antietam; at
Chancellorsville ; in invasion of Pennsylvania ; at Gettysburg;
mentioned
Hill, Sir Rowland
History of England, by Macaulay
Hobart
Hobhouse, Emily
Hobson, Captain William
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Prince Leopold
of
Holmes, General Theophilus H.
Holstein
Holy Alliance; and Spanish rising ; split by
Greek revolt
Home Rule, Gladstone converted to; League;
Conservatives and ; Liberal Party splits on ; Bill of 1886 ; Bill,
second
Homestead Act
Hood, General John B.; in command in
West
Hooker, General Joseph, given command; plan
of campaign of; at Chancellorsville; crosses the Potomac;
resigns
Hospitals, and Florence Nightingale
Houston, General Sam
Hudson’s Bay Company
Hungary, risings in; Bismarck’s agents
in
Hunt, Leigh
Huskisson, William, advocates Free Tradeat
Board of Trade; mentioned
Hyndman, H. M.
I
Idaho
Illinois, high road to; threatens to
acknowledge Confederacy ; mentioned
Income tax, of Pitt; of Peel; Gladstone
proposes abolition of
Independent Labour Party
India, Russian threat to; under East India
Company ; missionaries in; British expansion in; causes for
disaffection in; loyalty in, during Mutiny; rule of East India
Company ends in; shortened route to; Empress of
Indian Mutiny; conditions leading to;
conditions after
Indiana, threatens to acknowledge
Confederacy
Industrial Revolution, problems posed
byunrest and rioting due to; in United States
Inkerman, Battle of
Iowa
Ireland, Castlereagh in; Protestant
ascendancy in; Peel in ; British failure in; and Catholic
Emancipation; potato famine in; Home Rule for; scheme to make
Prince of Wales Viceroy of; attempts to pacify; miserable
conditions in; terrorism in; Gladstone’s crusade for; Parnellâs
work for ; policy of coercion in; Phoenix Park murders in;
rejection of Home Rule for; Queen Victoria visits
Ironclad ships
Isandhlwana
Islands, Bay of
Ismail, Khedive
Italy, Queen Caroline in; 1848 revolt in ;
of; ally of Prussia against Austria ; no ally for France; in Triple
Alliance
J
Jackson, Andrew, in Florida; Presidency of;
problems before; refuses to renew Bank charter
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, General Thomas ("Stonewall"); at
Harpers Ferry; at Bull Run ; Shenandoah campaign of; fails to reach
Lee in time; at Glendale ; at Cedar Mountain; destroys Pope’s
supplies; at Antietam; in withdrawal ; at Fredericksburg; at
Chancellorsville; death of; mentioned
James River, McClellan retreats to ;
blockade of mouth of, Merrimac in; Federal forces at mouth
of; Grant crosses; mentioned
Jameson, Dr Leander Starr
Jameson Raid; Kaiser’s telegram on
Japan
Java
Jefferson, Thomas ; idea of sovereign state
rights of
Jefferson City, Missouri
Jersey, Countess of
Jerusalem, dispute over shrines in
Johannesburg; capture of
Johnson, President Andrew, reconstruction
plan of; struggle between Congress and; impeachment of
Johnston, General Albert Sidney, defeated on
Mississippi; in supreme command in West ; death of
Johnston, General Joseph E., at Harpers
Ferry; at Bull Run; plan for attack on ; threatens Washington
retires behind Rapidan ; wounded at Seven Pines ; in command in
West; needs reinforcement; fails before Vicksburg; plan for
campaign of; campaign againstdismissal of ; restored to command;
surrender of; mentioned Judicature Act
K
Kabul
Kaffir wars
Kansas; anti-slavery violence in; cattle
centres of
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Keir Hardie, J.
Kenesaw Mountain
Kennington Common, Chartists on
Kent, Duke of
Kentucky; and state rights; and secession;
remains in Union; plan to invade
Kenya
Khalifa, the
Khartoum, Gordon in; relief of; Kitchener
at
Kiel, Prussia acquires
“Kilmainham Treaty,”
Kimberley
“Kitchen Cabinet,”
Kitchener, Lord, of Khartoum (General Sir
Herbert), River War of; in South Africa
Klondike
Knights of Labour
Knoxville, Tennessee
Koh-i-noor diamond
Kooti, Te
Kritzinger, General
Kruger, President Paul, Kaiser’s telegram
to; and Uitlanders ; ultimatum of; aims at Durban; defeat of
Ku Klux Klan
L
Labour Party, foundation of
Ladysmith
Lafayette, Georgia
Laird rams
Laissez-faire
Lalor, Peter
Land Acts, Australian
Land Acts, Irish: of
; of
Land League
Launceston, Tasmania
Law reforms
Lawrence, General Sir Henry
Lawrence, John (later Lord)
Lawrence, Kansas
League of Three Emperors
Lease, Mary Ellen
Lee, General FitzHugh
Lee, General Robert E.; in Mexican War;
against slavery, captures John Brown, in command of Virginian
forces; in Western Virginia; sent to organise coast defences;
military adviser; in command ; plan of attack of, on McClellan; at
Gaines’ Mill; in Seven Days Battle ; divides Union forces; campaign
of, against Pope ; invades Maryland ; withdrawal into Virginia ; at
Fredericksburg ; dispersal of forces of; surrounded by Hooker’s
army ; at Chancellorsville ; and death of Jackson ; Pennsylvanian
campaign of; refuses to go to Mississippi; at Gettysburg ; retreat
of; Davis fails to make the most of; plan of, for 1864 ; Grant’s
campaign against; appointed Commander-in-Chief ; surrender of
Leesburg
Leopold I, King of the Belgians, marriage
of; accession of ; and Queen Victoria; and Albert
Liberal Party; Gladstone leader of;
Confederate sympathies of; splits on Home Rule; Queen Victoria’s
dislike of; reforms launched by (1868-74) ; no central organisation
in; clashes between Whigs and Radicals in; heir to Tory Imperialist
troubles ; Round Table Conference of; weakened by fall of Parnell;
and working-class candidates for Parliament; clashes and quarrels
within
Liberal Unionists
Liberialism, Spanish; European
Liberator, The
Liberia
Licensing Bill, Gladstone’s
“Lib-Labs,”
Light Brigade, charge of the
Limpopo River
Lincoln, Abraham, makes stand against
slavery; elected President; and outbreak of Civil War; keeps
Kentucky in Union; dismissal of unsuccessful generals by; releases
Mason and Slidell ; and McClellan’s plan of campaign; military
mistakes of; urges action on McClellan; orders withdrawal from
Yorktown peninsula ; and McClellan’s advance into Maryland;
harassing Presidency of; proclaims emancipation of slaves ;
appoints Hooker ; and advance of Lee; appoints Grant in supreme
command; re-elected President; encourages peace parleys; at Hampton
Roads; conciliatory qualities of; assassination of ; per cent plan’
of; mentioned
Little Rock, Arkansas
Liverpool, R. B. Jenkinson, second Earl of,
Prime Minister; and Queen Caroline; has a stroke
Local Government Acts
Lombardy
London, support for Queen Caroline in;
Peel’s police force in; protest against Roman bishops in; police
from, to Australia
London Missionary Society
Longstreet, General James; in campaign
against Pope ; besieges Suffolk; in invasion of Pennsylvania ; at
Gettysburg; at Chickamauga; plan of, for 1864,
Lookout Mountain
Lords, House of, and trial of Queen
Caroline; opposes Reform Bills; creation of new peers in; defeats
Home Rule Bill
Lorraine, ceded to Germany
Louis Napoleon, Prince-see Napoleon
III
Louis Philippe, King of the French
Louisa Court House
Louisiana, secession of; "carpet-bagger"
Government of
Louisiana Purchase
Louisville, Kentucky; Railway
Lowe, Robert
Lucknow
Luddite riots
Lugard, Sir Henry
Lyon, General Nathaniel
M
MacArthur, John
Macaulay, Lord
McClellan, General George B., in Mexican
War; in command of Federal Army; plans of campaign of ; relieved of
general direction of armies; crippling of operations of; advance
of, towards Richmond ; retreats to James River; at Battle of Seven
Days; ordered to hand over troops; embarkation of army of;
relations between politicians and ; army returned to ; Maryland
campaign of ; against Emancipation Edict; pursues Lee; relieved of
command; Grant follows plan of; stands for Presidency
Macdonald, Alexander
MacDonald, Ramsay
McDowell, General Irvin, at Bull Run;
Rappahannock command of; McClellan needs corps of
McKinley, William J., Presidency of
Mackinnon, Sir William
McLaws, General Lafayette
MacLean, Sir Donald
MacMahon, Marshal
Macquarie Harbour
Madison, James
Mafeking
Magersfontein
Magruder, General J. B., at Yorktown;
defends Richmond; attacks at Savage Station
Mahdi, the
Mahomet Ali, Pasha of Egypt
Maine, admitted to Union
Maine, U.S.S.
Majuba Hill, Battle of
Malvern Hill, Battle of
Manassas, first Battle of; Junction; burning
of stores at; second Battle of
Manchester, demonstrators from; Anti-Corn
Law League in
Manchuria
“Manifest Destiny,”
Manila Bay, Battle of
Manitoba
Maori wars
Maoris
Marchand, Major J. B.
Maritime Provinces
Marsden, Reverend Samuel
Martinsburg, West Virginia
Marx, Karl
Marxism
Maryland, and secession; Lee invades;
abolishes slavery
Mason and Slidell, arrest of
Matabele
Meade, General George G., given command; at
Gettysburg ; slow pursuit of; ordered to follow Lee
Mechanicsville, Virginia
Meerut, mutiny at
Melbourne, Victoria
Melbourne, second Viscount, transportation
of farm workers by; Prime Minister; and Queen Victoria;
mentioned
Memphis, Tennessee
Mendaña, Alvaro de
Menschikoff, Prince A. S.
Merrimac, the
Metternich, Prince K. W. von
Metz
Mexican War; territory acquired by U. S.
in
Mexico, Gulf of, trade in; Confederate Navy
in
Mexico City, capture of
Mfecane
Middle classes, enfranchisement of ; fear
revolution; acquire political power
Middle West, anti-slavery feeling in
Midlothian Campaign
Mill, James
Milner, Sir Alfred (later Viscount)
Milroy, General Robert H.
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Minnesota, the
Missionary Ridge
Mississippi River, steamboats on ; as route
for invasion ; Island No. 10 in ; in Federal hands; increase in
population west of
Mississippi State, secession of; Grant
invades; Lee’s help sought for
Mississippi valley, states of; cotton
cultivation in; Confederate defeats in ; recovered for Union;
farmers’ parties in Upper
Missouri, admission of, to Union ;
Compromise ; slavery in; and secession; abolishes slavery
Mobile, Alabama attack on
Modder River, Battle of
Mohawk Indians
Moldavia
Moltke, Count Helmuth von
Monitor, the
Monometallism versus
bimetallism
Monroe Doctrine; and Venezuelan boundary
question
Montana
Montgomery, Alabama
Morgan, John Pierpont
Morley, John, first Viscount; on Coercion
Bill
Mormon settlement
“Municipal Socialism,”
Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Battle of
N
Nana Sahib
Napier, General Sir Charles
Naples, Kingdom of
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French,
President of France ; opposes Russia over Jerusalem; and Crimean
War; and Italian unity ; Confederate sympathies of ; double
diplomacy of; tricked by Bismarck ; mobilisation scheme of;
defeated in battle; surrender of; mentioned
Napoleonic wars, Tories and; peace after;
ruin to Dutch trade in
Nashville, Tennessee; Battle of
Natal, founding of; in Boer War
National Liberal Federation
National Republicans
Navarino, Battle of Bay of
Nebraska
Negro, slavery of, in U. S. ; emancipation
of ; problems of free; enfranchisement of ; Radical measures to
protect; political shortcomings of; part of, in Southern
farming
Netherlands, Kingdom of the
Nevada
New Bern, North Carolina
New Brunswick
New Caledonia
New England, prosperity in; colonisation of;
loyalty to Union in; anti-slavery feeling in; industries of
New Hebrides
New Mexico; admitted to Union
New Orleans, railway route through ; fall
of; race riot in
New South Wales, transportation of Tolpuddle
"Martyrs" to ; convict settlement in ; "offspring" of; gold
in
New York, anti-slavery campaign in ; draft
riots in
New York State
New Zealand, Cook discovers, ; affected by
Australian gold rush; Maoris of ; first British settlements on ;
Maori wars in; farming industry in; political development of
New Zealand Association
“Newcastle Programme,”
Newman, Cardinal John Henry
Nguni
Niagara Falls, peace parleys at
Nicaragua
Nice
Nicholas I, Czar of Russia, suppresses
nationalist risings; and Turkey; and Crimean War
Nicholson, John
Nicholson’s Nek, Battle of
Niel, Marshal Adolphe
Nigeria
Nightingale, Florence
Nile River, Wolseley’s expedition up;
British control over valley of; French expedition to
Nonconformists, emancipation of ; prevalence
of
Norfolk, Virginia, naval base at;
Merrimac at; evacuation of
North Anna River
North Carolina and secession ; Federal
successes on coast of; tobacco industry in
North German Federation
Northcote, Sir Stafford (later Lord
Iddesleigh)
Northern states, anti-slavery feeling in;
Federal conceptions of; and transcontinental railway; not prepared
for coercion; called to arms; task before; strength of; discouraged
by losses; peace terms of; attempt to retain ascendancy of business
interest of; turn against Radicals ; Industrial Revolution in .
See also Federal Government
Northern Virginia, Army of; 1862 campaign
of; faces Hooker’s army (1863); reorganised for invasion of
Pennsylvania; decisive defeat of; Grant’s campaign against; terms
for surrender of
Nova Scotia
O
O’Brien, William
O’Connell, Daniel; Irish votes of
Ohio River, Cumberland high-road across; as
route for invasion of South
Ohio State, helps West Virginia; oil
refineries of
Oklahoma
Omdurman, Battle of
Ontario
Orange Free State, origin of; friendly to
British; joins Kruger; annexation of
Orange River
Oregon; Treaty
Origin of Species, The (Darwin)
O’Shea, Captain W. H.
O’Shea, Mrs
Otago
Oudh
Outram, General Sir James
Oxford Movement, the
Oxford University, abolition of religious
tests at
P
Pains and Penalties, Bill of
Palmerston, third Viscount, Foreign
Minister; on Queen Victoria ; and Crimean War ; as Prime Minister ;
death of; and arrest of Mason and Slidell; considers mediation in
America; and war over Schleswig-Holstein; mentioned
Pamunkey River
Panama Canal, Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
about
Paris, siege of; Commune in
Paris, Treaty of (1856)
Parliamentary Reform; Whigs favour; Radicals
agitate for; Canning against ; demand for See also Franchise
Acts
Parnell, Charles Stewart; initiates boycott;
policy of obstruction of; arrest and release of; votes for
Conservatives; asks for reassessment of rents; forged letter
attributed to; co-respondent in divorce case ; fall of
Party system after Reform Act of
Patrons of Husbandry
Patterson, General Robert
Paxton, Joseph
Peach Tree Creek, Georgia
“Peculiar institution,”
Peel, Sir Robert, stabilises currency ; in
Ireland; against Catholic Emancipation ; Home Secretary ;
resignation of; introduces Bill for Catholic Emancipation ; opposes
Reform Bill; organises Tories in Opposition ; Prime Minister; and
abolition of Corn Laws; character and achievements of ; death of;
influence of, on Gladstone; mentioned
Peelites; Gladstone and
Pemberton, General J. C., defends Vicksburg;
defeated at Champion’s Hill
Pennsylvania, Lee’s invasion of ; oil
refineries of
Penny postage
Personal Liberty Laws
Perth, Western Australia
“Peterloo, massacre of,”
Petersburg, Virginia
Philip, Dr John
Philippine Islands
Phoenix Park murders
Pickett, General George E.
Pietermaritzburg
Piggott, Richard
Pike’s Peak
Pinkerton’s Private Detective Agency
Pipe Creek
Pitt, William, income tax of; and madness of
George III, free trade policy of; Canadian policy of
Pittsburgh
Pius IX, Pope
Place, Francis
“Plan of Campaign,”
Pleasanton, General Alfred
Plevna
Poland, partition of; revolts in
Political Unions
Polk, James K., Presidency of
Polk, General Leonidas
Poor Law reforms
Pope, General John, at Island No. 10 ;
commands Army of Virginia ; advance of army of; destruction of
supplies of; defeated at Manassas
Populists
Port Arthur
Port Arthur, Tasmania
Port Hudson, Louisiana
Port Jackson, New South Wales
Port Phillip, Victoria
Port Republic, Battle of
Port Royal, South Carolina
Porter, Admiral David D., at Vicksburg
Porter, General Fitz John, at Mechanicsville
and Gaines’s Mill; at second Bull Run; court-martial of
Portugal, British intervention in ; African
empire of
Potomac, Army of the; McClellan dismissed
from; under Burnside; Hooker in command of ; defeated at
Chancellorsville ; Lee’s intention to annihilate ; Lee
underestimates ; losses in, under Grant
Potomac River; Lee crosses ; McClellan
crosses ; Lee’s force crosses; Hooker south of
Press, tax on; Canning uses
Pretoria, Convention at; capture of
Pretorius, Andries
Protection; in United States
Prussia, chief Power on Rhine; in Holy
Alliance; and German unity; Bismarck’s achievements for; cultivates
Russian friendship ; at war with Denmark ; at war with Austria; at
war with France
Prussian Army
Public Health Act
Puerto Rico
Punjab, pacification of; during the
Mutiny
Q
Quadruple Alliance
Quebec Province
Queen Adelaide Province
Queensland
R
Radical Republicans, attack McClellan;
vengeful policy against South ; quarrel between President and; lose
power
Radicalism, Peel’s opposition to ; of
Western states; growth of, in Liberal Party; makes bid for
control
Radicals, agitation of; leaders of;
sympathise with Queen Caroline; and Reform Bills; Whigs and ;
Disraeli woos ; in United States, against slavery; Gladstoneâs
dislike of; Gladstone makes concessions to
Raglan, first Lord
Railways, in Britain; in America ; in
Canada; Prussian use of, in war; exploit American farmer; in River
War ; Berlin-Baghdad; trans-Siberian; in South Africa
Rand goldfields
Ranjit Singh
Rapidan River; Johnston retires behind;
Hooker’s army crosses; Grant crosses
Rappahannock River; Federal landing on;
Johnston crosses; Pope retreats across ; Burnside crosses; Hooker’s
army crosses
Realpolitik
Reconstruction Acts (1867)
Red Cross movement
Red Indians, emigrate to Canada ; ejected
from lands east of Mississippi; fate of, in U. S.
Reform Bill, first; second ; third. See
also Franchise Acts
Republican Party; Lincoln stands for;
malcontents against Lincoln in; Southern bitterness towards. See
also National Republicans; Radical Republicans
Retief, Pieter
Rhine, French Army of
Rhodes, Cecil, dreams of South African
dominion; in Central Africa; telegram of, to Parnell; Premier of
Cape Colony; and Jameson Raid; besieged in Kimberley ; address of,
to Cape Town Loyalists
Rhodesias
Richmond, Virginia Convention at;
Confederate capital ; demand for advance on; McClellan’s plan to
attack; defence of ; Pope plans attack on ; Burnside plans attack
on ; threat to; Hooker proposes march on ; evacuation of; damage
to
Riebeek, Jan van
River War
Roanoke Island
Roberts, Field-Marshal Earl, of
Kandahar
Rockefeller, John Davison
Roman Catholic Church, revival of, in
England; in Ireland
Rome, Papal State in; French troops in
Roon, Count Albrecht von
Rosebery, fifth Earl of; Prime
Minister
Rosecrans, General William S., south of
Nashville; at Murfreesboro; at Chattanooga; at Chickamauga;
dismissal of
Royal Navy, bulwark of American freedom;
protects Turkey; armour-plating of; holds dominion of seas
Royal Niger Company
Ruskin, John
Russell, Lord John, supports Grey ; moves
Reform Bill; leader of Whigs; Prime Minister; and Italian unity;
Canada Act of; and arrest of Mason and Slidell; orders seizure of
Confederate ships
Russell, Sir Charles
Russell, William Howard
Russia, and peace with France; in Holy
Alliance; American claims of; and Greek revolt; and Turkey ; in
Crimean War ; sells Alaska; Prussia courts friendship of; refuses
to be involved in war for Schleswig-Holstein; breaks treaty bonds
regarding Black Sea; as liberator of Balkan states; at war with
Turkey; and Congress of Berlin; Britain in conflict with; threat
of, to China; Japanese defeat of
Russo-Turkish War
S
Saarland
Sadowa, Battle of
St Arnaud, Marshal Arnaud
St Lawrence River
St Louis
St Paul, Minnesota
Sale of Food and Drugs Act
Salisbury, Robert Cecil, third Marquess of;
at Constantinople Conference ; Foreign Minister ; and Venezuelan
Boundary question; Prime Minister ; against Home Rule; depends on
Liberal Unionists; and Chamberlain; clashes with Lord Randolph;
Imperialist interests of; foreign policy of; retires ;
mentioned
Salt Lake City
Samoa
San Jacinto River, Battle of
San Stefano, Treaty of
Santa Anna, A. L. de
Santiago, Cuba
Sardinia, kingdom of
Sarmienta de Gamboa, Pedro
Savage Station, Virginia
Savannah
Savoy; House of
Saxony, at war with Denmark; occupied by
Prussia
"Scalawag" Governments
Schleswig
Schnadhorst, Francis
Schools, primary
Scott, Dred, case of
Scott, General Winfield
Scutari
Sebastopol, siege of
Secession, Ordinance of; repeal of
Sedan, Battle of
Sedgwick, General John
Seven Days, Battle of the
Seven Pines, Battle of
Seven Weeks War
Seward, William H.
"Share-cropping" in Southern states
Sharpsburg, Maryland
Shaw, George Bernard
Shenandoah River
Shenandoah valley, Federal troops
protecting; Jackson’s successes in; Lee withdraws up; advance into
Pennsylvania up; devastation of
Sheridan, General Philip H.
Sherman, General William T., at Vicksburg;
in command of Tennessee Army ; in command in West ; advance of;
Johnston surrenders to; mentioned
Shields, General James
Shiloh, Battle of
Sicily
Sickles, General Daniel E.
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount
Sikh Wars
Silver Purchase Act, repeal of
Simpson, General Sir James
Simpson, Jerry
Sind
Sinope, action off
Slave trade, to America; in Sudan; in Gold
Coast
Slavery: abolition of, in West Indies ; in
South Africa ; in United States ; abolition of, in British Empire;
Confederacy founded on; Lincoln proclaims abolition of, in South;
abolished throughout U. S.. See also Negro
Smiles, Samuel
Smith, Sir Harry
Socialists; form Labour Party
Solomon Islands
Somes, Joseph
South Africa, settlement of; attempts to
Anglicise; native wars in; Great Trek of Boers in; colonies and
republics of; gold in; and Jameson raid; federation as solution
for; concentration camps in; Milner’s work in
South African War; events leading to;
becomes guerrilla war; end of; cost of
South America, independent republics of; U.
S. and penetration of
South Anna River
South Australia
South Carolina, and doctrine of state
rights; Ordinance of Secession of
; opens Civil War
; Federal successes on coast of
; Sherman’s march into
; “carpet-bagger” Government of
South Dakota
South Mountains, Lee in
Southern Right Democrats
Southern states, slavery in; conception of
sovereign state rights in
; and transcontinental railway
; secession of
; assisted by slaves
; remaining in Union; know defeat
; peace parleys with
; ruin in
; restoration of, to Union
; restoration of, to Union
; Radical vindictiveness towards ; Army rule
in ; "carpet-bag" Governments in; legacy of bitterness in; changes
in land ownership in
; industry in
. See also Confederacy
Spain, revolt against Bourbon rule in ;
French intervention in; South American colonies of
; relinquishes Florida
; slave trade of
; choice of King for
; at war with U. S.
Spencer, fifth Earl
“Spoils system,”
Spottsylvania Court House, Battle of
“Standards, Battle of the,”
Stanton, Edwin M.
; dismissal of
Stephens, A. H.
Stevens, Thaddeus
Stewart, General Sir Herbert
Stockman, Baron
Stoneman, General George
Stormberg, Battle of
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Strasbourg
Stratford de Redcliffe, Lord
Strathcona, Lord
Stuart, General J. E. B., reconnaissances of
; at Chancellorsville ; in invasion of Pennsylvania
Sudan, Mahdi rebellion in
; General Gordon in
-; River War in
Sudley Springs
Suez Canal, purchase of shares in
Suffolk, Virginia
Sumatra
Supreme Court, decision on slavery by
Susquehanna River
Suttee, suppression of
Sybil (by Disraeli)
Sydney Harbour
T
Table Bay, Dutch in
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice
de
Taney, Chief Justice Roger B.
Tariffs
Tasman, Abel
Tasmania
Taylor, General Zachary
Tel-el-Kebir, Battle of
Tennessee, settlement of; and secession;
action in ; Federal hold on ; Confederate advance into coal and
iron of
Tennessee, Army of the
Tennessee River, route of advance ;
Vicksburg on; Grant clears
Tenure of Office Act
Test Act, repeal of
Texas, annexation of; National Debt of;
secession of; mentioned
Thirteenth Amendment
Thomas, Captain J. W.
Thomas, General George H.
Thoroughfare Gap
Tilden, Samuel J.
Tillman, "Pitchfork" Ben
Times, The, war correspondent of, in
Crimea; Bismarck’s letter to; Lord Randolph on Tories in; "Parnell"
letter in
Todleben, Count Franz
Tolpuddle “Martyrs,”
Tories, effects of French Revolution and
wars on
; unable to deal with social problems
; weakened by trial of Queen
; Pitt and
; split by Catholic Emancipation
; Canning and
; suspicious of European Liberalism
; and Parliamentary Reform
; defeat of
; under Peel
; split in, over Protection
; Disraeli and
; under Disraeli and Derby
; faction in
Tory Democracy of Disraeli
; of Lord Randolph Churchill
Trade Union Act
Trade unions, early repression of
; in United States
; dockers’
; and socialism
Transvaal, settling of
; annexation of
; independence granted to
; goldfields of
; Uitlanders of
; Jameson Raid on
; prepares for war
Trent, the
Trieste
Trollope, Anthony, on Palmerston
Turkey, Greece rises against
; destruction of fleet of
; on brink of dissolution; R
ussia and
; Britain supports
; in Crimean War
; guaranteed independence
; misrule of, in Europe
; at war with Russia
; Lord Randolph challenges policy on
; German interest in
Tyrol, Southern
U
Uganda
Unauthorised Programme of Chamberlain
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)
Union Labour Party
United Empire Loyalists
United States, Monroe Doctrine of; foreign
trade of ; emigrants from, in Canada ; Irish immigrants to ;
invades Canada; treaty between Canada and; Canadian fears
concerning; purchases Alaska; "era of good feelings" in; expansion
of, to West ; increased population of ; removal of Indian tribes
of; elasticity of Federal system in; early political history in;
democracy in ; convention system in; communications in ; threatened
cleavages in ; slavery issue in ; spoils system in; problem of
supremacy of Union in : sale of public land in; economic stresses
in; at war with Mexico; "Manifest Destiny" of; prosperity of; three
races of; "principle of popular sovereignty" accepted in ; issue of
transcontinental railway route in; judgment concerning status of
slaves in ; 1860 election in ; secession of Southern states from;
outbreak of Civil War in; war-time election in; effect of Civil War
on; settlement of Alabama dispute with; reconstruction in ; slavery
abolished in; readmission of Southern states to ; industrialisation
of ; mineral wealth of ; captains of industry in; increased number
of states in ; settlement of Great Plains of; agrarian troubles in;
dear money in; farmers’ organisations in; financial panic in; free
silver question in; on gold standard; takes her place in world
affairs; Venezuelan boundary dispute of, with Britain ; improved
relations with Britain; at war with Spain; territorial acquisitions
of; remains aloof from Old World
United States Ford
Urbana, Virginia
Utah, Mormon settlement of; slavery question
in; admitted to Union; railways in
V
Vallandigham, Clement L.
Van Buren, Martin; Presidency of
Van der Stel, Simon and William
Adriaan
Vancouver Island
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Vansittart, Nicholas
Venezuelan boundary dispute
Venice and Venetia
Vera Cruz
Vereeniging, Peace of
Verona, Congress of (1822)
Versailles, negotiations between France and
Prussia at; William declared German Emperor at
Vicksburg, Mississippi, fortress of ; Grant
attacks ; fall of
Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy
Victoria; goldfields of
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain ; father
of; accession of; and Melbourne ; marriage of; and Great
Exhibition; and Palmerston ; and American Civil War ; favours rise
of Prussia; Disraeli and; Gladstone and; Empress of India ; shocked
by Midlothian Campaign; and death of Gordon; on "Black Week," ;
death of; mentioned
Vienna; Congress of
Vienna Note
Virginia, and state rights; and secession;
Lee’s loyalty to; loses western part; chief battleground of Civil
War; tobacco industry in
Virginia, Army of
Virginia Central Railway
Voortrekkers
W
Waitangi, Treaty of
Wake Island
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon, in Canada;
theories of, and Australia; and New Zealand
Walner, General
War Office, reforms at
Warrenton, Virginia
Washington, inauguration of Jackson at;
proximity of, to Confederate capital; danger to, after Bull Run;
forces left to defend; McClellan undertakes defence of;
Confederates approach
Washington, President George
Weaver, James B.
Webb, Sidney and Beatrice
Webster, Senator Daniel; on loyalty to
Union
Wellington, New Zealand
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of,
in politics; commands army of occupation ; supported by George IV,
on Royal Dukes; at Congress of Verona; refuses to support Canning;
becomes Prime Minister; and Catholic Emancipation; duel between
Winchilsea and; and William IV, suspicious of European Liberalism;
opposes reform of franchise; on the English; death of
West African boundary problems
West Indies, abolition of slavery in
West Point, Federal plan to attack ; Federal
base at; Lee seeks to cut communications to
West Virginia, secedes from secession ; Lee
in; Pope’s severities in.
Western Australia
Weyler, General V.
Wheeler, General Joseph
Whigs, weakness of; roused by attacks on
liberties ; and Queen Caroline ; and Parliamentary Reform ; support
Canning ; leader of; in office ; and social reorganisation ; lose
support of country; and Radicals ; under Russell and Palmerston;
Gladstone joins; disappearance of; against Home Rule . See
also Liberal Party
Whigs, American
White, General Sir George
White House, Federal advance to
White Oak Swamp
White Sea, naval expedition to
Wilderness, the
William I, German Emperor, becomes King of
Prussia; and Spanish Succession; proclaimed Emperor
William II, German Emperor ; telegram of, on
Jameson Raid; creates oceanic Navy
William IV, King of Great Britain (Duke of
Clarence), marriage of ; accession of; and Whigs; dissolves
Parliament ; agrees to create new peers ; death of
Williamsburg, Virginia
Wilmington, South Carolina
Winchester, Maryland
Winchilsea, tenth Earl of
Windsor Castle
Wissembourg, Battle of
Wolseley, Viscount (General Sir Garnet), at
Tel-el-Kebir; relieves Khartoum; crushes Ashantis; mentioned
Women, emancipation of
Wood, Alderman
Workmen’s Compensation Act
Worth, Battle of
Y
Yazoo River
York River; Confederate batteries on;
blockade of mouth of
Yorktown, threat to cut off; siege and
surrender of; McClellan ordered to withdraw from
Young, Brigham
Young England movement
Z
Zanzibar
Zulus , conquests of; at Isandhlwana;
defeated by British