KUBLAI KHAN, Columbus’s search for, 9, 10, 13, 21, 24. LA BANDA ORIENTAL, _see_ URUGUAY. LA PLATA, _see_ ARGENTINA. LA RABIDA, Columbus at, 12. LAFAYETTE, MARQUIS DE, some important dates in his life, 412; arrival in America, 411, 412, 413, 414; befriended by Washington, 414; gifts to suffering America, 420; wounded at Brandywine, 416; loyal to Washington, 418; his toast to Washington, 419; gifts to Washington, 201; member of the Cincinnati, 208; revisits America, 422; is honoured by Congress, 420; transmits relics of Washington, to Bolivar, 421. LAND OF YOUTH, legend of the Atlantic, 6. LAS CASAS, BARTOLOME DE, succours the Indians, 26. LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS, their number, 405; their Colonial nationality, 405. _See also_ BOLIVAR; MIRANDA; O’HIGGINS; PEDRO; SAN MARTIN. LE BON HOMME RICHARD, Paul Jones’s ship, 364. LEANDER, THE, Miranda’s ship, 335; John Adams’s grandson sails in, 90 335; cruise to the Spanish Maine, 336; fate of, 339. LEE, HENRY, protégé of Washington, 216; at Mount Vernon, 217; delivers Washington’s official funeral oration, 217. LEIF, discovery of Vinland, 8. LEXINGTON, BATTLE OF, Paul Revere warns the town, 81; news of, arouses Putnam, 146; arouses Marshall, 433. LIBERATORS, _see_ BOLIVAR; CUBA; MIRANDA; O’HIGGINS; SAN MARTIN. LIBERTY, William Penn’s ideas on, 35, 36; liberty of conscience, 32, 35, 125, 209, 350. _See also_ INDEPENDENCE, GROWTH OF IDEA. LIBERTY BELL, announces signing of Declaration of Independence, 309. LIBERTY POLE, in New York, 104. LIBERTY TREE, in Boston, 104. LIGHT HORSE HARRY, soubriquet of Henry Lee, 216. LIMA, Colonial power of, 244, 257; siege and fall of, 257; celebrates its first Independence Day, 265. LIMON BAY, discovered by Columbus, 25. LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, some important dates in his life, 174; poem to, by Bryant, 174; boyhood, 175, 176; at New Orleans, 177; his honesty, 177; story of the little birds, 178; rescues a pig, 179; opens the kittens’ eyes, 180; his kindness to children, 181; influence of the Bible on Lincoln, 177, 183; thanks Coloured Delegation for gift of Bible, 184; Order against Sunday-work in the Army and Navy, 185; Gettysburg Address, 186; tribute to Washington, 190; God’s judgment on slavery, 310. LINCOLN, NANCY HANKS, makes a home in the wilderness, 175; teaches her children, 176; reads them the Bible, 176; her influence on Lincoln, 177. LION OF THE APURE, soubriquet of General Paez, 382. LITTLE FRIEND IN FRONT STREET, soubriquet of Haym Salomon, 228. LLANEROS, Venezuelan cowboys or plainsmen, 382. MACEO, GENERAL, Cuban Patriot, 60. MADISON, JAMES, consulted by Washington, 158; tribute to Haym Salomon, 228; in the Virginia Convention, 446. MAELDUNE, legend of, 5. MAGNA CARTA, a foundation of English Liberty, 97, 98, 442. MAINE, aids blockaded Boston, 79. MAINE, BATTLESHIP, destruction of, 62. MAIPU, victory of, 253.