Battles -- United States; United States -- History, Military -- To 1900
Quebec, settled, 4, 13, 63;
act, 6;
taken by English, 30;
Wolfe’s expedition against, 66;
Montcalm at, 69;
stronghold, 70;
river protection, 70, 71;
defensive force, 71;
progress of siege, 72;
plains of Abraham, 75;
losses, 76;
surrender, 76.
Queen Anne, accession, 60.
Queen Anne’s War, 60, 63.
_Queen Charlotte_ at Lake Erie, 163.
Quitman, John A., at Vera Cruz, 208.
_Raleigh_ in Spanish War, 351.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, expedition to North Carolina, 13.
Rawlins, General, at Appomattox, 336, 337.
Reconstruction Act, passage, 343.
Reed, James, at Bunker Hill, 107, 116.
_Reina Cristina_ in Spanish War, 354, 355.
Resaca de la Palma, battle, 193.
Revolution, American, primary causes, 79;
Samuel Adams as factor, 95;
outbreak, 99;
military preparations, 100.
Reynolds, John E., in Gettysburg campaign, 312;
death, 313.
Rey, Vara el, at El Caney, 366_n_.
Rhett, R. B., Jr., and Anderson’s removal to Sumter, 252.
Rhode Island, purchased, 17;
settlement, 31;
battle of, 144.
Riedesel, General, at Ticonderoga, 124, 126.
Roanoke Island, English settlement, 13;
captured, 288.
Rochambeau, Count de, at Williamsburg (1781), 146.
Roosevelt, Theodore, and the navy, 357;
Rough Riders, 362;
Sampson-Schley controversy, 376.
Ross, Major, commissioner at the surrender of Cornwallis, 149.
Rowan, S. C., and Sumter relief expedition, 266.
Ruffin, Edmund, opens fire on Sumter, 267.
St. Augustine, founded, 13.
St. Clair, Arthur, at Ticonderoga, 123;
defeat, 124;
pursued by British, 126;
defeat by Miami Indians, 154.
St. Leger, Colonel, siege of Fort Schuyler, 129;
retreat, 132.
St. Marks captured, 180.
_St. Paul_ in Spanish War, 360.
St. Simon, Marquis de, at the siege of Yorktown, 147.
Salem, settlement, 30.
Sampson, W. T., command, 358;
search for Cervera’s squadron, 359;
blockade of coast of Cuba, 359;
battle off Santiago, 369–371;
Schley controversy, 375.
San Juan d’Ulloa, Fort, 208.
San Juan Hill, battle, 365.
Santa Anna, at Buena Vista, 194, 198–207;
bribe, 195;
abdicates, 196;
at Cerro Gordo, 209;
at Contreras, 211–214;
at Churubusco, 215–220;
at Molino Del Rey, 220–225;
Chapultepec, 225–229.
Santiago de Cuba, Cervera’s squadron at, 360;
blockade, 361;
sinking of _Merrimac_, 361;
preparations of army against, 362;
voyage and landing of army, 363–364;
Las Guasimas, 365;
El Caney, 365;
San Juan Hill, 366–368;
map, 367;
naval battle, 369–372;
surrender, 372;
condition of army 373;
return of troops, 373.
Santo Domingo, proposed annexation with United States, 11.
Saratoga battle (1777), 120–143.
_Saratoga_ at Lake George, 175, 176, 178, 179.
Saunders, Admiral, at siege of Quebec, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 74.
Savannah, founded, 61.
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