=Big Bethel=, Virginia. 37N. 76W. Victory of Confederates, 1861 (Civil W.). =Big Black River=, Mississippi. 32N. 90W. Defeat of Confederates, 1863 (Civil W.). =Big Horn=, battle of, at junction of Big and Little Big Horn River. 44N. 106W. General Custer's force destroyed by the Sioux Indians under Sitting Bull, 1876. =Bio-bio=, river, Chili. 38S. 72W. Fierce contests at, between Araucanians to the south, and Spaniards to the north, during the 16th century. =Blackrock=, near Buffalo. 42N. 78W. Fort surprised by British, 1813. =Blackstock's Plantation=, Charlotte, N. Carolina. 35N. 80W. Defeat of British by Sumter, 1780 (W. of Ind.). =Blackwater=, river, Missouri. Surrender of Confederates, near Milford, 1861 (Civil W.). =Bladensburg=, Maryland. 39N. 76W. Americans defeated by English, 1814. =Blakely=, near Mobile, Alabama. 30N. 88W. Fort taken by Federals, 1865 (Civil W.). =Block Island=, Connecticut. 41N. 71W. Taken by Endicott after murder of English traders by the Indians, 1636. =Bloody Bridge=, near Detroit. 42N. 82W. Rout of English by Indians at Parent's Creek (Bloody Run) and death of Dalzell. (See Parkman, 'Conspiracy of Pontiac.') =Boca del Sierpe.= 9N. 61W. So named by Columbus, 1498. =Bogota=, cap. of Colombia. 4N. 74W. F. by the conqueror Quesada, and formerly known as Santa Fé, 1538; independence proclaimed at, 1811; taken by Spaniards, 1816; delivered by Bolivar, 1819 (S. A. W. of Ind.). =Bolivia=, S.A. 18S. 68W. Formerly Upper Peru. Rise of natives under Tupac Amaru, descendant of the Incas, who was cruelly put to death by the Spaniards, 1780-2; sc. successive battles during S. American War of Independence, 1809-25; independence secured by victory of Ayacucho, 1824; republic named after the liberator Bolivar; Santa Cruz president of B. and Lower Peru, 1828-39; Peru-Bolivian war with Chili, 1879-83; sc. frequent civil war. =Boonesboro=, Kentucky. 39N. 84W. On site of fort built by Daniel Boone, the explorer of Kentucky (1735-1820), who was several times attacked in it by the Indians, and once made prisoner. =Booneville=, Missouri. 38N. 92W. Confederates defeated by Gen. Lyon, 1861 (Civil W.). =Boothia Felix.= 70N. 94W. Northern extremity of the continent, discovered by Sir John Ross, 1829-30; named after Sir F. Booth, the financier of the expedition, during which Ross's nephew (James Clark Ross) discovered the magnetic pole. =Borgne, Lake=, Louisiana. 30N. 89W. British naval victory, 1812.