North America, discovery of, 151 North Carolina, 449, 489; cedes Western lands, 451; _see also_ Wilmington North Point, British attack on, 37 Northwest Territory, 511 Nott’s _Types of Mankind_, 362 O Oconostota, quoted, 486 Ogle, Governor, 62 Oglethorpe, Gen. James E., at Savannah, 294, 296, 302, 306, 307, 310, 315, 324, 575 Ohio River, French occupy, 335 Ohio Valley, 510 _ff._ Oliver, the stamp distributor, 197 O’Malley, Charles J., quoted, 534 _Oneida_, the, 368 Opechancanough, 190 Ordinance of 1787, 437 Orleans College, 358 Orleans, Duke of, 418 _Orleans_, the, 517 O’Reilly and New Orleans, 424 Orton House, 232 Oyster Point, settlements on, 252 P Paca homestead, the, 62 Pacquereau, Captain, 258 Page, General, 366, 372 Panuco, 329 Paris, 170; Treaty of, 422 Parker, Sir Peter, besieges Charleston, 264, 290 Parliament, Act of 1748, 276 “Patawomeke,” 102 Paulding, James K., 516 Peabody, George, 500 Peabody Institute, 44 Peabody Normal College, 500 Peach Bottom, and site for national capital, 108 _Peggy Stewart_, burning of the, 63, 65 Pelham Cadets, 371 Pelham, Peter, 214 Pemberton, General, at Vicksburg, 435, 443, 444 Pendleton, Edmund, and the Williamsburg Convention, 201, 202 Penn, Wm., 21, 124, 572 Pensacola, 333, 336, 344, 347, 371 Percy, Commodore, attacks Fort Bowyer, 355 Perier, 340 Peter the Great, 340 Peterborough, Lord, 158 Petigru, James L., quoted, 291 Petrovich, Alexis, 340 Petrie, George, on Montgomery, xix, 379-410 Phi Beta Kappa Society organized, 207 Philadelphia, xvi, 21, 87, 269; and the Continental Congress, 106, 203; and the Convention of 1787, 201; and the national capital, 108, 114, 126; compared with Charleston in 1796, 267 _Philip and Charles_, the, 11 Philippines, 196 Phillips, Philip, 362 Pickens, Governor, 388 Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg, 472 Piedmontese, the, in Ga., 306 Pierce, Franklin, 140 Pike, Albert, 547, 548, 552 Pilgrims at Plymouth, 154, 557 Pillans, Engineer, 369 Pinckney, C. C., 270, 276 Pinckney, Thos., 270, 276 Pinkney, Wm., 40 Piñeda in Florida, 329 Pittsburg, 511, 517, 518, 521 Placide, H., 363 Plains of Abraham, 342 Plymouth, 154, 300, 331, 558 Pocahontas, 101, 153, 159 Poe, David, 25 Poe, E. A., xxvii, 25, 174 Poe, Mrs. David, 25 Polk, James K., 70, 140, 492; at Nashville, 492, 494; tomb of, 495 Polytechnic Society, Louisville, 531 Pompeii, 249 Pont Chatooga, 342 Pope, Alexander, 316 Pope, F., vision of, 104, 105, 147 Pope, Warden, 531 Porcher, 273 Port Bill, the, 21 Port Hudson, 441 Port Royal, S. C., 249, 250, 572 _Port Royall_, the, 250, 251 _Postboy_, the New York, 83 Potomac and the national capital, 110, 111, 114, 116 Pott, Dr. John, 190