Vicksburg, capture of, 306 Warren, Dr. Joseph, 167 Washington, George, 116; at home and school, 117-124; the young surveyor, 124-127; his journey to the French forts, 130; at Great Meadows, 132; with Braddock, 132; at Mount Vernon, 189-193; as General, 193-207; as President, 208 Washington, Lawrence, 118-121 Webster, Daniel, 264; his boyhood and youth, 265-268; his "Reply to Hayne," 269; his last days, 271 West, Benjamin, 274, 275 Williams, Roger, 81; goes to Salem, 86; driven into exile, 88; his settlement at Providence, 89 Wolfe, James, 136; his youth, 136; at Quebec, 138-144 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES 1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_. 2. Images have been moved from the middle of a paragraph to the closest paragraph break. 3. Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of a paragraph in which they are referenced. 4. Obvious punctuation errors have been silently corrected. 5. The word Crevecoeur uses an oe ligature in the original. 6. The following misprints have been corrected: "Wahington" corrected to "Washington" (page 190) "Breeze" corrected to "Breese" (page 273) "1809-1861" corrected to "1809-1865" (page 282) 7. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been retained. End of Project Gutenberg's American Leaders and Heroes, by Wilbur Fisk Gordy