Battles -- United States; United States -- History, Military -- To 1900
_Castilla_ in Spanish War, 355.
Castro, José, faction in California, 190.
Cervera, Pasquale, squadron, 359;
at Santiago, 360;
battle, 369–372.
Champlain, Samuel, defeats Mohawks, 13;
attacks Iroquois, 27, 28;
founds Quebec, 63.
Chapin, Cyrenus, at Lake Erie, 162.
Chapultepec, storming of, 182.
Charles I. executed, 42.
Charleston Harbor forts, Scott advises reinforcement, 236;
available force, 237;
Buchanan’s passive attitude, 238;
condition, 239;
Moultrie repaired, 240;
Gardner asks for reinforcements, 241;
attempted removal of ammunition, 241;
Porter’s report, 242;
Anderson advises reinforcement and occupation of Pinckney and
Sumter, 244;
state enrollment of fort laborers, 245;
Buell’s instructions to Anderson, 246;
Pinckney occupied, 247;
state demands Sumter, 248;
demand withdrawn, 249;
state patrol, 251;
removal to Sumter, 252;
consequent excitement, 254;
Anderson refuses to return, 255;
state occupies other forts, 255;
_Star of the West_, 256;
Anderson promised support, 257;
food problem at Sumter, 258;
map of, 259;
demand for surrender of Sumter, 264;
Fox’s expedition to relieve, 265;
Scott ridiculed plan of relief, 265;
bombardment of Sumter, 267;
surrender, 271;
effect of relief expedition, 272.
Chauncey, Isaac, command, 159;
at Lake Ontario, 160.
_Chesapeake_ captured by the _Shannon_, 156.
Chestnut, James, at Fort Sumter, 264, 265, 271.
Chicago fire, 343.
Childs, Colonel, at Puebla, 210.
_Chippeway_ at Lake Erie, 163.
Choiseul, French premier, 64.
_Chubb_ at Lake George, 175.
Churubusco, battle, 215–220.
Civil Rights Bill passed, 343, 344.
Clark, Charles Edgar, in Spanish War, 360.
Clark, George Rogers, conquest of Northwest, 7, 144.
Clay Compromise adopted, 230.
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty concluded, 230.
Cleveland, Grover, annexation of Hawaii, 11;
elected President, 344, 345;
Venezuela boundary dispute, 345, 346;
Cuban Filibusters, 346.
Clinton, Fort, 139, 140.
Clinton, James, at New York, 122;
attacks Forts Clinton and Montgomery, 140.
Clinton, Sir Henry, arrival at Boston, 102;
at Bunker Hill, 114, 117;
Putnam, 140;
attacks Forts Clinton and Montgomery, 140;
captures Charleston, 144.
Colorado, admission into the Union, 344.
Columbia River, mouth discovered, 8;
Lewis and Clark expedition, 8.
Columbus discovers Western World, 12.
Committee of Correspondence in Boston, 92.
Committee of Safety in Massachusetts, 103.
_Concord_ in Spanish War, 351.
Confederate States, congress assembles, 273.
_Confiance_ at Lake George, 175, 176, 178, 179.
Connecticut, settlement, 31;
constitution adopted, 42;
conscription, 120.
Conner, David, before Vera Cruz, 194.
Conscription riots, 327.
_Constellation_ captures _L’Insurgente_, 154.
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