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304 INDEX 12; temporary retirement from military life, 12; in Braddock s ill- fated expedition, 13; appointed to chief command of Virginia forces, 14 ; reduction of Fort Duquesne, 15 ; marriage to Martha Custis, 15; a member of Virginia house of burgesses, 15-16; life during pe riod preceding Revolutionary War, 16-18; delegate to first Continen tal congress, 18-19; delegate to second Continental congress (1775), 19; elected commander-in-chief of Continental forces, 20; takes com mand of American army around Boston, 20-21; after eight months siege, drives British from Boston, 21 ; at New York, receives copy of Declaration of Independence, 22; services from battle of Long Island to surrender of British at York- town, 23-24; rejects suggestion that he be made king, 25 ; addresses meeting of officers discontented on account of arrearages of pay, 26; addresses a letter to the governors of the several states, 27-29; takes leave of his officers, 29; life after the war, 30; anxiety over lack of strong government for confedera tion of states, 30-32 ; elected presi dent of convention to frame and adopt a constitution, 32; elected president of United States, 33; in auguration and address of, 34-35; beginning of administration, 35-36; rules and principles for appoint ments to office, 36-38 ; leading men in government of, 38, 133; tours of eastern and of southern states, 39; re-election to presidency, 40; pol icy of neutrality toward belligerent European powers, 40; activities of second administration, 41; fare well address at close of second term, 41-42; placed in command of army, at time of threatened war with France, 42-43 ; last illness and death, 43-44; funeral and burial- place, 44; tributes paid to memory of, 44-47; editions of writings of, 47; biographies of, 48; statues and portraits, 49; history of family connections, 50-59; jealousy of John Adams for, 89, 93; Adams s support of policy of, 90, 93; Jef ferson in cabinet of, 133 ; president of the Potomac company, 169; Andrew Jackson s disapproval of government of, 261; objection to a third term proven a myth, iv. 146. Washington, Henry A., i. 150. Washington, John, i. 3. Washington, Lawrence, half-brother of George Washington, i. 4, 8, 9; death of, 9-10. Washington, Martha Custis, i. 15; portrait of, by Gilbert Stuart, 49; sketch of life of, 50-54. Washington, Mary Ball, mother of George Washington, i. 3-5, 56. Washington, D. C., burning of public buildings in, during War of 1812, i. 205, 271. Washington, treaty of (1871), iii. 82- 84. Washington Monument, i. 49. Washington s birthday, first observ ance of, i. 45. Waters, Henry F., i. 3. Waterways Commission, Roosevelt s, iv. 133-134, 136. Wauhatchie, battle of, iii. 44. Wayles, John, i. 118, 153. Weathersford, leader of Indians in Creek war, i. 267-268. Webster, Daniel, description of Jef ferson by, i. 152; speech in reply to Hayne, 293; defeated for presi dency by Van Buren, ii. 14; secre tary of state under Harrison, 44; does not resign with other members of Tyler s first cabinet, 74; resigns portfolio, 78; secretary of state under FiUmore, 157; death of, 158, 161; estimate of FiUmore by, 165; dinner given to Franklin Pierce by, 187. Weed, Thurlow, ii. 224. Weems, Mason L., i. 47. Welles, Gideon, ii. 260. Went worth, Sir John, i. 64, 72. Western Federation of Miners, iv. 109, 126. Western land, question of govern ment of, i. 197. West Point Academy, Pierce s speech against, ii. 179. West Virginia, separation of, from Virginia, ii. 262. Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth, " Mar tha Washington" by, i. 54. Wheeler, Gen. Joseph, in Spanish war, iv. 70. Whig party, beginning of, i. 91 ; prin ciples represented by, 234; during Jackson s administration, 290-291; reason for use of the name, ii. 60; dissolution of, on election of Frank lin Pierce, 188. Whigs, state-rights, ii. 63. White, Hugh L., ii. 14, 63, 97, iii. 4. Whitney, William C., secretary of navy under Cleveland, iii. 253.