Battles -- United States; United States -- History, Military -- To 1900
_Iowa_ in Spanish War, 358, 369–372.
Iroquois (Five Nations), tribes, 25;
friendship for Dutch, 25;
origin of hostilities to French, 27;
French expedition against, 28;
raids in Canada, 29;
weakened, 30.
_Isla de Cuba_ in Spanish War, 354, 355.
_Isla de Luzon_ in Spanish War, 355.
_Isla de Mandanao_ in Spanish War, 355.
Jackson, Andrew, and Creek Indians, 156;
seizes Pensacola, 179;
captures Spanish fort, St. Mark’s, 180;
elected President, 180, 181.
Jackson, Fort, Farragut passes, 293;
surrenders, 294.
Jackson, Major, at Bunker Hill, 116.
James I. grants patent to London and Plymouth companies, 13.
James II., King of England, 59.
Jamestown, settlement, 4, 13.
Jefferson, Thomas, and Louisiana purchase, 8;
Lewis and Clark Expedition, 8;
interest in western exploration, 9;
elected President, 154, 155.
Jeffries, Doctor, at Bunker Hill, 113.
Johnson, Andrew, succeeds to the Presidency, 328.
Johnson, Colonel, at Ticonderoga, 135.
Johnson, President, impeachment, 343.
Johnson, Sir William, captures Fort Niagara, 73, 74.
Johnston, western command, 299;
Vicksburg campaign, 302, 304.
Johnstown flood, 345.
Jones, D. R., and surrender of Sumter, 271.
Kansas, civil war, 230;
admission into the Union, 231.
Kearny, S. W., occupies New Mexico, 192.
_Kearsarge_ and the _Alabama_, 327;
lost, 345.
Kentucky, admission into the Union, 154.
Kilpatrick, H. J., cavalry in Gettysburg campaign, 311.
King George’s War, beginning, 61, 63.
King Philip (Pometacom), chief of the Wampanoags, 45;
attack on Swanzey, 46;
at Pocasset, 47;
returned to Mount Hope, 55;
death, 56.
King Philip’s War, 22, 23, 44–58.
King William’s War, 59, 60, 63.
Kossuth, Louis, arrival in United States, 230.
Knowlton, Thomas, at Bunker Hill, 104, 109, 116;
killed at Battle of Harlem Heights, 104.
Knox, Henry, at Bunker Hill, 115;
at Yorktown, 147, 148.
_Lady Prevost_ at Lake Erie, 163.
La Fayette, Marquis de, at Yorktown, 145.
Lake Champlain, battle, 173–179;
losses, 179.
Lake Erie, battle, 158–172;
Perry victorious, 169;
losses, 170;
prize money, 171.
Lamon, W. H., visit to Charleston, 256_n_;
unauthorized statements, 256.
Lane, Henry S., at Buena Vista, 200.
Langdon, Samuel, President of Harvard College, at Cambridge, 104.
Las Guasimas, battle, 365.
La Salle, explorations, 59, 63.
Lathrop, Captain, in King Philip’s War, 48, 49.
Laub, Henry, at the battle of Lake Erie, 170.
Laurens, John, at the siege of Yorktown, 148;
Commissioner at the surrender of Cornwallis, 149.
Lauzun, Duke de, at the siege of Yorktown, 147.
_Lawrence_, at Lake Erie, 163, 164, 168, 169, 170.
Lawton, H. W., in Spanish War, 364, 365.
Learned, General, at Behmus’ Heights, 134.
Lee, Captain, and surrender of Sumter, 271.
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