=Lee, Robert E.=, 325, 326, 327, 335, 336, 337-341; at West Point, 337; wins fame and honor in Mexican War, 337; in charge at West Point, 337; in charge of Confederate army at Richmond, 338; defeats McClellan, 338; retreats from Maryland after battle of Antietam, 338; at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, 338; at Gettysburg, 338; in the "Wilderness," 339; plans to join Johnston, 340; meets Sheridan, 340; surrenders to Grant, 341; president of Washington College, 341; death, 341; portrait of, 341. =Leonidas=, 462. =Lewis, Captain Meriwether=, 239-244; portrait of, 239; and Clark sent to explore Louisiana Purchase, 239; and Clark and the Indians, 239-243; and Clark cross Rocky Mountains, 240-241; and Clark reach the Columbia River, 242; and Clark reach the Pacific, 242; and Clark return to St. Louis, 242; rewarded by Congress, 242; made governor of Louisiana Territory, 243. =Lewis and Clark Expedition=, 237, 239. =Lexington=, battle of, 130, 175. ="Lexington," The=, 199. =Lincoln, Abraham=, 313-329; born in Kentucky backwoods, 313; early life of, 313-317; in Black Hawk War, 317; goes to Illinois legislature, 318; speaks for General Harrison and Henry Clay, 319; goes to Congress, 319; the champion against Douglas, 319; in the U. S. Senate, 320; debates between Douglas and, 320-322; elected president, 322; calls for troops, 323; portrait of, 325; issues Emancipation Proclamation, 326; assassinated, 327; and reconstruction, 328-329. =Lincoln, General=, 182. =Lincoln, Nancy Hanks=, 314. =Livingston, Robert R.=, helps draw up Declaration of Independence, 232; helps make Louisiana Purchase, 236; aids Fulton, 258, 259. =Locomotive invented=, 263. =Loe, Thomas=, 92, 94. =London Company=, formed, 60. "=Lone Star Republic=," 281. =Longstreet, William=, 257. =Lookout Mountain=, battle of, 335. =Los Angeles=, 376. =Louisiana Purchase=, 236-238; Lewis and Clark explore territory obtained by, 237, 239-244. =Louisiana Purchase Exposition=, 237. =Louisville=, 218. ="Lusitania," The=, 428, 430. ="Luzerne," The=, 201. =McClellan, General=, and Lee, 325, 338; at Antietam, 338. =Mace, Samuel=, 46. =Macedonian phalanx=, 455, 463, 469. =McCormick, Cyrus H.=, 272-274. =McKinley, William=, 352-359; early life of, 352-353; in the Civil War, 353; becomes a successful lawyer, 353; portrait of, 353; in Congress, 354; and the Spanish-American War, 354-359; assassinated, 359. =Madison, James=, 250, 296. =Magellan, Ferdinand=, 28-31; portrait of, 28; first to sail around earth and prove it round, 28-31; names, and is first to cross Pacific Ocean, 30; visits the Philippines, 30; killed defending his sailors, 31.