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846 Index. Excise, 204 sq. Executive, the Federal, 284 sqq.; the Con- federate, powers of, 608 sq. Exeter (New Hampshire), 21 Expansion, of United States, chaps, xn, xxi ; industrial, 700, 714 ; railroad, 705 Explorations, Western, 326 Exports : of American colonies, 56 ; of Louisiana, 93; of United States, 312, 696, 715, 717; debate on taxation of, 278-80; British, 353, 355 "Exposition, the South Carolina," 380 Falmouth, destruction of, 169 Fanning, secretary of North Carolina, 145 Farmer, the American, independence of, 713 Farragut, Admiral, 498 sqq., 552-5 Fear, Cape, 35 Federal Eepublicans, the, 316 sq., 672 sq. Federalists, the, 316 sq. Federals, the, chaps, xiv-xvin, passim Fendall, Josias, governor of Maryland, 33 Fenwick, John, his settlement at Salem, 47 Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, 365, 367 Ferguson, Colonel Patrick, 225 sq., 233 Ferrars, John, 6 Fessenden, William P., 570 Feudalism, Canadian, 83 "Fifty-four forty, or fight," 398 Finance, Northern, during the Civil War, 568-72 ; Southern, 607, 615 ; reorgani- sation of, 631 Fine Arts, American, 748 aq. Fish, Hamilton, 429, 636 Fish, salt, export of, 56 Fisheries question, 363; history of the, 657 sq. Fishery treaty, with Great Britain (1818), 365, 657 Five Forks, battle of, 538 Five Nations, Iroquois confederacy of, 39, 42, 75, 80, 115, 220 Fletcher, Benjamin, governor of New York, 50, 51 Florida, 365 ; invasion of, 62 ; loyalists in, 218; secession of, 446 Florida, sinking of the, 565 Food-products, import of, 716 Foote, Solomon, 429 Forbes, General, 135, 136 Force Act (1786), the, 313; (1829), 382 Fort Brown, Mexican attack on, 395 Fort Cataraqui (Kingston), foundation of, 85 Fort Cumberland, 123 Fort Donelson, capture of, 495 Fort Duquesne, Braddock's expedition against, 123; capture of, 136 Fort Edward, 125, 129 Fort Erie, capture of, 343 Fort Fisher, capture of, 557 Fort Frontenac, capture of, 135, 136; see also Fort Cataraqui Fort George, 341 Fort Harrison, capture of, 534 Fort Henry, capture of, 495 Fort Meigs, siege of, 340 Fort Morgan, Federal attack on, 554 sq. Fort Ninety-six, defence of, 230 Fort Orange (Albany), English conquest of, 39 Fort Sandusky, British repulse at, 340 Fort Stedman, capture of, 534 Fort Sumter, fall of, 446 Fort William Henry, capture of, 130, 131 Foster, Augustus (British minister), 333 Foulon, Anse du, 139 Fox, Captain G. V., 549 France, unfitness of, for colonisation, 1; her claims in America, 119 ; United States negotiations with, 210; treaties with (1778), 216; and the Armed Neutrality, 233, 234; her war with England (1793), 318 sq.; differences with United States, 321 sq. Franklin, battle of, 524 Franklin, Benjamin, his scheme for colonial union, 69 ; assists General Braddock, 123 ; before House of Commons, 146, 150, 182, 199, 204; obtains possession of Hutchinson's letters, 156; before Privy Council, 157; on the post-office, 205; on peace, 212; at Constitutional Convention, 253-4, 257, 260, 292; his character, 732 Fraser, General, 214 Frederica, 62, 63 Fredericksburg, battle of, 483 Freedom, Edict of, 595 Free-Soil party, the, 424 Fremont, General John C., 395, 432, 459 sq., 475, 583 sq. French, the, in America, chap, in, passim; in Newfoundland, 52 Frolic and Wasp, fight of the, 339 Frontenac, Comte de, 81, 85, 89, 90, 97 Fugitive Slave Law, the, 417 Fulton, Eobert, 351 Funding Acts, the Confederate, 613 Fur-trade, the, 56, 76, 85, 91 Gage, General, governor of Massachusetts, 159, 160, 163, 165, 169 Gainsborough (England), flight of Non- conformists from, 12 Galloway, Joseph, of Pennsylvania, 162, 195, 199, 200, 206 Gardiner (of Massachusetts), banishment of, 16 Garfield, James A., President of United States, assassination of, 650 Garrison, 'William Lloyd, his Liberator, 387 Gates, General Horatio, 211, 225 Gates, Sir Thomas, 5, 6 Genest, Edmond, 317, 320 George III, King of England, 307, 330 Georgia, foundation of, 61-4 ; Trustees for the Colonisation of, 61 ; War of Inde- pendence in, 219 ; cession of territory by, 308 ; secession of, 446 ; Sherman's march through, 526