=Barry, John=, 199-201; early life of, 199; portrait of, 199; captain of the _Lexington_, 199; on the Delaware, 199-200; commands the _Alliance_, 200, 201; first commodore of American navy, 201; death, 201. =Barton, Clara=, 409-412; early life of, 409-410; portrait of, 410; goes to the battlefield, 410-411; and the American Red Cross, 410-412; goes to Armenia, 411; in the Spanish-American War, 411. "=Battle Hymn of the Republic=," 405, 406. =Baxter=, 265. =Belgium=, invasion of, 426-427; American Committee for the Relief of, 431; and the German Peace Treaty, 442. =Bell, Alexander Graham=, invents telephone, 268. =Benton=, Jessie, 285. =Benton, Thomas H.=, 249, 253, 285. "=Bill of Rights=," 493. =Biplane=, 393. =Birmingham, Alabama=, great coal and iron center, 423. =Blackbeard the Pirate=, 72. =Black Hawk War=, 317. =Blockade of southern ports=, 324. ="Bon Homme Richard," The=, 197, 198. =Boone, Daniel=, 202-210; early life of, 202-203; crosses mountains, 203; and the Indians, 204-209; blazes famous "Wilderness Road," 205; builds Fort Boonesboro, 206; goes to Kentucky, 206; at siege of Boonesboro, 208-209; portrait of, 209; moves to Missouri, 210; death, 210. =Boonesboro, Fort=, 206, 207, 208, 217. =Booth, John Wilkes=, 327. =Boston=, settled, 82; British soldiers in, 129, 169, 172. =Boston Port Bill=, 129, 172. "=Boston Tea Party=," 162-163, 170-172. =Boulton, Matthew=, inventor, 259. =Bowie, Colonel=, 279. =Braddock, General=, 123-124. =Bradford, William=, 73, 76, 79, 81. =Brandywine=, battle of the, 137. =Breckenridge, John=, 322. =Brewster, William=, 73. =Bridgewater, Duke of=, 258. =Britons=, 472, 478. =Buchanan, President=, 270. =Buckner, General=, 333. =Buffalo=, herds of, 24. =Bunker Hill=, battle of, 132, 176-177. =Burgesses, House of=, 127, 159, 162, 167, 230, 231. =Burgoyne, General=, 217; compliments Morgan, 186. =Burke, Edmund=, 162, 233. =Bushnell, ----=, work on submarine, 394. =Cabot, John=, 34-37; born in Genoa, 34; voyages of, 34-36; statue of, 35; seeks India and discovers Labrador, 35; honored by king and people on return to England, 35, 36; on second voyage, 36; England claims large part of North America through discoveries of, 37. =Caesar, Julius=, 471-473. =Cahokia=, 220, 223. =Calhoun, John C.=, 252, 297, 306-311; early life of, 306; portrait of, 307; works hard for success of army in War of 1812, 307; made Secretary of War, 307; twice elected Vice-President, 307; favors nullification, 308; opposes Abolitionists, 308-309; annexes Texas, 310; opposes Compromise of 1850, 310; death, 311.