Wallis, 3330, 3518 Wallis, Sir Provo, 3810 Walpole, Horace, 3127, 3510 Walpole, Sir Robert, 3082, 3086, 3087, 3088, political weapons of, 3088 Walsingham, Sir Francis, 2678, 2697, 2699 Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland, 2240 banishes the Jews, 1531 Wampanoag Indians, 2532, 2933, 2935 Warbeck, Perkin, 2354-2357 Ward, General Artemas, 3229 Babylonian, 282, 283 during the Middle Ages, 2047-2049 during the XV. and XVI. centuries, 2521 Greek, 720, 721, 945-948 Persian, 538-548 Roman, 1138, 1365-1370 Warner, Colonel Seth, 3251 Warren, General Gouverneur Kemble, 4193, Warren, General Joseph, 3223, 3227, 3229, Warren, General Sir Charles, 4503 Warsaw, battles and captures of, 3034, 3042 siege and fall of, in 1794, 3180, 3181 Warwick, Neville, Earl of, 2335-2340 Washburne, Elihu Benjamin, 4210 Washington City, capital of the United States, 4003 Pan-American congress at, 4266 VOL. 15-22 Washington, Fort, captured by the Hessians, Washington, General George, in the French assaults on the administration of, 3996, and the National Constitutional Conven- at Boston, 3230, 3231, 3234, 3235 at White Plains, 3244 at Trenton and Princeton, 3245 at Yorktown, 3271, 3272 character and description of, 3286, 3287 death of, 4002, 4003 family and descent of, 3287, 3288 inauguration of, 3973, 3974 in the War of the Revolution, 3228-3285 journey from Mt. Vernon to New York, 3973 neutrality proclamation of, 3989-3991 resigns his commission as commander-in- retreat of, before Cornwallis, 3244 Washington, State of, admission of, 4265 Second Treaty of, 4242 Washington, William A., Colonel, 3269 Waterford, Ireland, capture of, 2258 Watertown, Massachusetts, 2934 Watling street, Roman military road, 2003 Wat Tyler, rebellion of, 2305-2309 Wattegnies, battle of, 3391 Watt, James, inventions of, 3326, 3508 Wauchope, General, 4505 Waxaw Creek, battle of, 3263 Wayland, Francis, 3964 Wayne, General Anthony, 3249, 3262, 3270, Waziristan, British expedition into, 3813 Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, 3326, Webb, General, 3118 Webb, General Alexander Stewart, 4195 Webster, Daniel, 4015, 4044, 4049, 4050, 4057, 4062, 4063, 4064, 4077, 4094, 4098, 4099 Wedgwood, Josiah, 3325, 3508 Week, Anglo-Saxon origin of names of days Wei-hai-wei, capture of, 4664, 4665 Weinsberg, siege and capture of, 2084 Weissembourg, first battle of, 3391 second battle of, 3665 Weissenberg, battle of, 2778 Weitzel, General Godfrey, 4150, 4151, 4219 Welden, Baron, 3604 Weldon railway, seizure of the, 4197, 4198 Wellesley, Sir Arthur, 3324, 3351, 3436, 3464, created Duke of Wellington, 3467 Wellesley, Marquis, 3475 Wellington, Duke of, 3467-3469 at Albuera, 3464 at Madrid, 3468 at Orthez, 3493 at Salamanca, 3468 at Talavera, 3466 at Toulouse, 3494 at Victoria, 3469 at Waterloo, 3499, 3500 retreat of, to Torres Vedras, 3467 death of, 3571 Wenceslas, King of Germany, 2115, 2116 Wentworth, General, 3098 Wentworth, Thomas, Earl of Strafford, 2829, Wepener, siege and relief of, 3829, 4527-4530 Werner, 3506 Werther, Baron von, 3663 Wessells, General Henry Walton, 4192 West, Cornwallis, Lord Sackville, 4264 Western Empire, 1494-1514 fall of the, 1511-1513 restoration of the, 1885-1954 results of peace in Germany, 2799, 2800 railroad riots in, 4255 Wetzlar, Imperial chamber of, 3151 Wexford, capture and massacre of, 2853, 2854 Weymouth, Lord, 3194 Wheeler, General Joseph, 4214, 4215, 4294- Wheeler, Sir Hugh, British general, in Indian mutiny, 3625 Wheeler, William Almon, 4250, 4253, 4254 Wheelwright, Rev. John, 2934, 2937 Whigs and Tories, in England, 2884 in America, 3217 White, Colonel, 2860 White, Major, 4140 White, General Sir George Stuart, 4503 Whitefield, George, 3513-3517 Whitehall, palace of, 2852, 2857-2859 Whitelocke, General, 3451 White Oak Swamp, battle of, 4157 White Sulphur Springs, battle of, 4174 Whitney, Professor William Dwight, 3964 Whipple, General, 4170 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 3962, 4055 Whitworth, Lord, 3434 Wialopolski, Count, 3642 Wiasma, peace of, 3041 Wickliffe, John, 2053, 2118, 2119, 2301, 2309, Widdin, battle of, 3063 capture of, 3064 Wieland, 3154, 3512 Wiesloch, battle of, 2729 Wiesnowiski, Michael, King of Poland, 3044 Wight, Isle of, escape of Charles I. to the, Wilberforce, William, 3330, 3454, 3518, 3561, Wilderness, Virginia, battle in the, 4194, 4195 Wilhelmina, Queen of Holland, 3902 elected to the House of Commons, 3193, expelled from the House of Commons, outlawed, 3191 Wilkinson, General James, 4014, 4019, 4020 William and Mary College, founding of, 2950 William II., Duke of Normandy (William the William III., of England, 2901-2922 campaigns of, 2912-2918 partition treaties of, 2918, 2919 proclaims a general amnesty, 2915 William I., Prince of Orange, 2728-2733, assassination of, 2739, 2740 outlawed by Philip II., 2734, 2735 William III., Prince of Orange (William III. enmity between Louis XIV. and, 2985- marriage of, 2987, 2988 William I., of Prussia and Germany, 3639, attempts to assassinate, 3775, 3776 becomes Emperor of Germany, 3673, 3674 death of, 3869 marches to Paris, 3670, 3671 surrender of Napoleon III. to, 3668 triumphal entry into Paris, 3677 William II., of Prussia and Germany, 3870 quarrel and reconciliation with Bismarck, 3870, 3872 William II., of Würtemberg, 3871 William Rufus, of England, 2244–2246 obtains Normandy, 2246 William IV., Stadtholder of Holland, 3111 character of, 2244 conquest of England by, 1994, 1995, 2025, cruelties of, 2238, 2240, 2241 coronation of, at Westminster Abbey, curfew bell introduced, 2242 death of, 2243 Domesday Book compiled, 2241, 2242 Feudal System introduced, 2239 government of, 2237, 2239, 2242 last years of, 2243 New Forest made by, 2242 Norman-French language in England, 2239 survey of England under, 2241 Wager of Battle introduced, 2242 William the Lion, of Scotland, 2260, 2365, 2366 captivity of, 2260, 2365, 2366 invades England, 2260, 2365, 2366 Williams, Colonel, 3264 Williams, British general, 3622 Wirt, William, 4056 Wirz, Captain, trial and execution of, 4225 Wise, Governor Henry Alexander, 4112, 4113 Wishart, George, 2707 Witchcraft, in Salem, 2936 Witenagemote, assemblies of, 1568, 2006 Withlachoochee, battle of, 4058 Witikind, 1889, 1893 Witiza, 1532 Wittelsbachs, 2090, 3153 Wittelsbach, Otho of, 2090 Wittenberg, university of, Luther's professor- Martin Luther burns the Pope's bull of Wittgenstein, Count, 3483, 3539, 3540 Woden, or Odin, 1355, 1560, 1561, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1982, 1985 Wohlgemuth, 3604 Wolfe, Charles, 3465 Wolfe, General James, 3129-3131 Wolseley, Sir Garnet, 3659, 3725, 3770, S806, 3801 Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas, 2569, 2637-2644 and the divorce of Henry VIII, 2641, education of, 2637 genius and versatility of, 2639 disgrace and fall of, 2643 retinue of, 2639 rupture with Henry VIII., 2642 unpopularity with the English people, Women, Babylonian, 262, 263, 286, 321, 32 Egyptian, 65, 66 Greek, 950, 951 Median, 479 of Anglo-Saxon England, 2027 Wood, Benjamin, 4232 Wood, Fernando, 4232 Wood, General Leonard, 4294, 4295, 4805 Wood, General Sir Elliott, 4504 Woodgate, General Sir Edward, 4505 |