=Cortés, Hernando=, 18-22, 23, 28, 37; invades Mexico, 18; sinks his ships, 18; armor of, 19; attacks the Indians, 20; takes Mexican capital, 19, 20; puts Montezuma to death, 21; conquers Mexico, 21; visits Spain, 21; portrait of, 21; shares Columbus' fate, 22. =Cotton=, 227, 228; fields and factories, 420-421. =Cotton gin=, invention of, 227-228; present-day machine built along lines of Whitney's, 416. =Cotton-seed oil=, 417. =Cowpens=, battle of the, 186, 188. "=Cradle of Liberty=," 169. =Creek Indians=, 104, 249. =Crèvecœur=, Fort, 111. "=Croatoan=," 46. =Crockett, David=, 279, 282-283; boyhood of, 282; enlisted under Jackson, 282; elected to Congress, 282; fights for Texas at the Alamo, 282-283; death, 283. =Cuba=, discovered by Columbus, 13; Spanish persecution in, 354-355; United States at war with Spain in behalf of, 354-358; made a republic, 358. =Custis, Martha=, 126. =Cuzco=, where Pizarro found fabulous riches, 23. =Da Gama, Vasco=, rounds Africa, 28. =Danes=, 484, 485, 486. =Dare, Virginia=, first white child of English parents born in America, 45. =Darius=, 461. =Daughters of Liberty=, 400. =Davis, Jefferson=, president of the Confederacy, 326, 336. =Declaration of Independence=, Franklin appointed to help write, 155, 156; made, 177, 178; Samuel Adams worked hard for, 177; Jefferson author of, 229, 232. "=Declaration of Sentiments=," 402. =Democratic party=, 322, 348, 351. =Democratic-Republican party=, formed by Thomas Jefferson, 235. =Depth bomb=, 397. =De Soto, Hernando=, 24-28; makes an expedition to Florida, 24-26; welcomed at Cuba, 24; portrait of, 25; cruel to natives, 25; fights way northward and inland, 25; discovers Mississippi, 26-27; marches far northward and westward, 27; returns to the Mississippi and dies, 27. ="Deutschland," The=, 397. =Dewey, Admiral George=, 355; portrait of, 355. =Dictaphone=, 387-388. =Diego=, son of Columbus, 6, 7. =Dinwiddie, Governor=, 121. =Dirigibles=, 391, 394. "=Dogwood Papers=," 148. =Dorchester Heights=, 133. =Douglas, Stephen A.=, debates with Lincoln, 319-322; nominated by northern Democrats, 322. ="Dove," The=, 69. =Drake, Sir Francis=, 37-42; ruined by Spaniards, 37; portrait of, 38; returns to England with Spanish gold, 38; on voyage around the world, 38-40; captures Spanish treasure ships in Pacific, 39, 41, 43; given title by Queen Elizabeth, 40; takes command of fleet to fight Spain, 40; destroys Spanish towns in Cuba, 41; burns Spanish ships, 41; and the Spanish Armada, 42; takes Raleigh's colony home, 45. ="Drake," The=, 196. =Duquesne, Fort=, 122; captured, 126. =Duryea, Charles=, 389.