[276] Sec. of the Navy, _Annual Report_, 1898, App., pp. 465, 466. [277] It was on this date, May 24th, that the _Oregon_, Captain Clark, appeared off Jupiter Inlet, Florida, ready for action, after a voyage of fourteen thousand miles from San Francisco.--[EDITOR.] [278] Schley, _Forty-five Years Under the Flag_, 276. [279] Sec. of the Navy, _Annual Report_, 1898, App., p. 402; Long, _New Am. Navy_, I, 258–287. [280] Sec. of the Navy, _Annual Report_, 1898, App., p. 437. [281] Sec. of the Navy, _Annual Report_, 1898, App., p. 667. [282] Major-General commanding the army, _Report_, 1898, p. 149. [283] Major-General commanding the army, _Report_, 1898, p. 162. [284] Major-General commanding the army, _Report_, 1898, pp. 152, 169, 171, 319, 366, 381. [General Vara el Rey, one of the bravest of the Spanish officers, was the leader in this desperate resistance, and was killed while rallying his men in the village.--EDITOR.] [285] Major-General commanding the army, _Report_, pp. 167, 173. [286] _Messages and Docs._, Abridgment, 1898–1899, I, 270. [287] Sec. of the Navy, _Annual Report_, 1898, App., pp. 505–602; Long, _New Am. Navy_, II, 28–42. [288] Major-General commanding the army, _Report_, 1898, pp. 138–147, 226–243, 246–266. [289] _Senate Docs._, 56 Cong., I Sess., No. 221, 8 vols. [290] _Nation_, LXIX, 61. [291] Proceedings of the Schley Court of Inquiry, _House Docs._, 57 Cong., I Sess., No. 485. [292] Act of February 14, 1903, _U. S. Statutes at Large_, XXXII, pt. i, p. 830. INDEX Abercrombie, James, killed at Bunker Hill, 115. Adams, John, elected President, 154. Adams, John Quincy, interested in western exploration, 9; elected President, 180; Texas, 184. Adams, Samuel, circular letter, 90; “committees of correspondence,” 92; on independence, 96; outlawed, 102. Aguinaldo, Emilio, insurrection, 356. Alabama, admitted into the Union, 180; secession, 231. _Alabama_ and the _Kearsarge_, 327; Claims, 343. Alaska, purchase, 11, 343. Alger, R. A., Spanish War, 363; resignation, 374, 375. Alien acts, passage, 154. _Alliance_ fired upon, 345. Almonte, J. N., annexation of Texas, 184, 185; demands his passports, 185. Alston, Charles, at surrender of Sumter, 271. Amendment, Thirteenth, 328; Fourteenth, 343; Fifteenth, 343. America, territorial history, 1–12. American, flag adopted, 143; victory at Cowpens, 144; Embargo Act, 155; Anti-Slavery Society, 181. Americans, at Bunker Hill, 102–108; at battle of Long Island, 119; at White Plains, 119; at Bennington, 119; at Saratoga, 120; at Valley Forge, 143; storm Stony Point, 144; at Yorktown, 145; invade Canada, 155; at Chippewa, 156; occupy California, 182; New Mexico, 182.