=Pittsburgh=, building on site of, 137;
named, 144.
=Platt=, Thomas C., resigns seat in Senate, 345.
=Plattsburgh=, battle of, 237.
=Plymouth= Company, the, organization of, 47;
grants to, 47;
attempt at colonization, 48.
=Plymouth= Council, organization of, 49;
grant to, 49.
=Plymouth= Rock, landing at, 51.
=Pocahontas=, rescues John Smith, 60;
abducted by Argall, 65;
marriage of, 65.
=Polk=, James K., elected President, 260;
sketch of, 261;
administration of, 261-268.
=Ponce= de Leon, voyages of, 27.
=Pope=, John, takes Island Number Ten, 294;
at Bull Run, 300.
=Port= Bill, the Boston, 156.
=Porter=, Admiral, bombards Vicksburg, 304;
captures Fort Fisher, 314.
=Port= Royal, founded, 39.
=Portuguese= explorations, 34.
=Prescott=, William, fortifies Breed's Hill, 159.
=Prideaux=, General, campaign of against Niagara, 144.
=Princeton=, battle of, 171.
=Pring=, Martin, voyage of, 46.
=Printing-press=, introduction of in America, 81.
=Privateers=, British, 209.
=Prohibition= Party candidates, the, of 1884, 359.
=Proprietors'= Rights, purchase of, 77.
=Providence=, R. I., founded, 80.
=Pulaski=, Count, honored by Congress, 176;
killed at Savannah, 186.
=Puritans=, sketch of the, 49;
character of the, 93.
Q
=Quakers=, persecution of the, 82.
=Quebec=, founded, 39;
captured by Wolfe, 146;
expedition of Arnold against, 162.
=Queenstown=, battle of, 226.
R
=Ragged= Regiment, Marion's, 188.
=Raleigh=, Sir Walter, voyage of with Gilbert, 44;
expeditions of, 45, 46.
=Randolph=, Edmund, introduces resolution to adopt a new
Constitution, 200.
=Rebellion=, Bacon's, 74.
=Reconstruction=, measures of, 325.
=Red= River Expedition, the, 310.
=Reed=, Thomas B., Speaker of House of Representatives, 365.
=Remonetization= of silver, 339.
=Republic=, the New, 202.
=Resaca= de la Palma, battle of, 262.
=Resumption= Act, adoption of the, 339.
=Revere=, Paul, ride of, 157.
=Revolution=, causes of the, 149-156;
history of the, 157-198.
=Rhode= Island, founded, 80;
history of, 111-113;
ratifies the Constitution, 206;
Dorr's rebellion in, 258.
=Ribault=, John, voyages of, 37.
=Richmond=, capital of Southern Confederacy, 283;
fall of, 319.
=Rights=, declaration of, 153.
=Roanoke=, colony at, 45.
=Roberval=, Frances of, attempts to found colony in New France, 37.
=Rodgers=, Commodore, commander of the _President_, 223.
=Roebling=, John, architect of the Brooklyn bridge, 348.
=Rolfe=, John, marriage of, 65.
=Rosecrans=, W. S., at Murfreesborough, 297;
at Chickamauga, 304.
=Ross=, General, captures Washington, 237;
expedition against Baltimore, 238.
=Ryswick=, treaty of, 89.
S
=Salem=, founded, 78;
witchcraft at, 89.
=Samoa=, difficulty in, 363.
=Samoset=, welcomes the Pilgrims, 76.
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