of this ruffian and the stolen riches which he carried home to England soon afterward, gained the honors of knighthood for him, from the worthy hands of Charles II. In 1680, the buccaneers under one Coxon again crossed the Isthmus, seized Panama, which had been considerably rebuilt, and captured there a Spanish fleet of four ships, in which they launched themselves upon the Pacific. From that time their plundering operations were chiefly directed against the Pacific coast. Towards the close of the 17th century, the war between England and France, and the Bourbon alliance of Spain with France, brought about the discouragement, the decline and finally the extinction of the buccaneer organization. _H. H. Bancroft, History of the Pacific States: Central America, volume 2, chapter 26-30._ ALSO IN _W. Thornbury, The Buccaneers._ _A. O. Exquemelin, History of the Buccaneers._ _J. Burney, History of the Buccaneers of America._ See, also, JAMAICA: A. D. 1655-1796. AMERICA: A. D. 1655. Submission of the Swedes on the Delaware to the Dutch. See DELAWARE: A. D. 1640-1656. AMERICA: A. D. 1663. The grant of the Carolinas to Monk, Clarendon, Shaftesbury, and others. See NORTH CAROLINA: A. D. 1663-1670. AMERICA: A. D. 1664. English conquest of New Netherland. See NEW YORK: A. D.1664. AMERICA: A. D. 1673. The Dutch reconquest of New Netherland. See NEW YORK: A. D. 1673. AMERICA: A. D. 1673-1682. Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi, by Marquette and La Salle. Louisiana named and possessed by the French. See CANADA (NEW FRANCE): A. D. 1634-1673, and 1669-1687. AMERICA: A. D. 1674. Final surrender of New Netherland to the English. See NETHERLANDS (HOLLAND): A. D. 1674. AMERICA: A. D. 1681. The proprietary grant to William Penn. See PENNSYLVANIA: A. D. 1681. AMERICA: A. D. 1689-1697. The first Inter-Colonial War: King Williams's War (The war of the League of Augsburg). See CANADA (NEW FRANCE): A. D. 1689-1690; 1692-1697; also, NEWFOUNDLAND: A. D. 1694-1697. AMERICA: A. D. 1690. The first Colonial Congress. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1690; also, CANADA (NEW FRANCE): A. D. 1689-1690. AMERICA: A. D. 1698-1712. The French colonization of Louisiana. Broad claims of France to the whole Valley of the Mississippi. See LOUISIANA: A. D. 1698-1712. AMERICA: A. D. 1700-1735. The Spread of French occupation in the Mississippi Valley and on the Lakes. See CANADA (NEW FRANCE): A. D. 1700-1735. AMERICA: A. D. 1702. Union of the two Jerseys as a royal province. See NEW JERSEY: A. D. 1688-1738. AMERICA: A. D. 1702-1713. The Second Inter-Colonial War: Queen Anne's War (The War of the Spanish Succession). Final acquisition of Nova Scotia by the English.