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Netherlands.

United New Netherland company, 298.
United Provinces. See Netherlands.
United States of America, independence
proclaimed, 428; articles of confedera-
tion, 429; independence recognized and
boundaries established, 432; first con-
gress at New York, 547; first meets at
Washington, 549; Jay's treaties, 548 ;
Louisiana purchase, 549; war of 1812,
551; Missouri compromise, 552; war with
Mexico, 554; fugitive slave law, 548, 555;
civil war, 557, prohibition of slavery,
558; resumption, civil service reform,
560.

United States bank, 547; second, 551.
Unstrut, battle of, 195, 199.
Urana, Pedro de, 288.

Urban II., pope, 213.
Urchan, 278.

Uruguay, discovery of, 286; independent,

488.

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Valens, Roman emp.,

160.

160; III., 161, 173.

Vendôme, 392, 435.

Vendôme, column, 532.

Venezuela, discovery of, 283; republic of,
488.

Venice founded by Italian fugitives, 173;
shares in 4th crusade, 216; constitu-
tion, 697-1454, 262; acquisition of Corfu
and Cyprus, height of its power, ib.;
league of Cambray, 300, 318; holy league,
318; decline in power, loses Cyprus to
the Turks, 326; at the peace of Carlo-
witz receives Morea, 372; which it loses
at the peace of Passarowitz, 397; these
wars described, 415; V. seized by France,
gov. overthrown, 459; ceded to Austria,
except Ionian Islands, 459; at the con-
gress of Vienna, Austria retains V., which
forms with Milan the Lombardo-Venetian
kingdom, 482; revolt and subjugation,
494; ceded to Napoleon III., 509; ceded
to Italy, 510, and united with that king-
dom, 511.

Venus, 84.

Vera Cruz, 285; surrender of, to gen.
Scott, 554.

Vercellæ, battle of, 128.
Vercingetorix, 139.

Verden, ceded to Sweden, 316; conquered
by Denmark and sold to Hanover, 396.
Verdun, see the Three bishoprics; treaty
of, 187.

Vere, Robert de, impeachment, 269.
Vergennes, c. de, 447.

Vergilius Maro, P., 81, 147.

Vergniaud, 451, 452, 454.

Vermont, organized, 429; admitted to
Union, 547.

Verona, congress of, 488.

Veronese, Paul, 328.

Valentinianus, I., Roman emp., 160; II., Verrazzano, Giovanni di, 286.

Valerianus, Roman emp., 156, 188.

Valerius, laws of, 98.

Valerius Corvus, M., 103, 104; Maximus,

110; Poplicola, 93.

Valley Forge, 429.

Valmy, battle at, 452.

Valois, house of, 257.

Van Buren, Martin, 552, 553.

Vandals, location, 170; invaded Spain, 171;
kingdom in Africa, 172; power in Africa
destroyed, 174.

Vane, sir Henry, execution of, 379.
Van Tromp, 376.

Varahran I., k. of Persia, II.. III., 188;
IV., V., 189; VI., see Bahram.

Varna, battle of, 278.

Varro, C. Terentius, 115.

Varus, Quintilius, 143, 149, 167.
Vasa, house of, 352.

Vassals, 166.

Vatican council, 512.

Vaucelles, truce of, 306.

Vauchamps, battle of, 480.

Vedas, 22, 23.

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Veii, war of Romulus with, 88; siege of, Vienna, grand alliance of, 379. See Grand
99.

Velasquez, Diego, 284, 285.

Venaissin, annexed to France, 452.
Vendée, royalistic revolt in the, 453, 454;
conclusion of the war, 457; new revolt
repressed, ib.

alliance.

Vienna, alliance of, against Napoleon (1815),
483; concordat of, 253; conference in,
491; congress of, 482, 537; final act, 487;
peace of (ending war of Polish succession)
398; peace of between France and Aus

tria (1809), 472: peace of, ending the war
of Austria and Prussia with Denmark
(1864), 506; peace of, between Austria
and Italy (1866), 511; treaty of (1731),
437; siege by the Turks, 303, 372; foun-
dation of, 167; outbreak in, 492; second,
499; third, 493.

Vienne. See Dauphiné.

Wales, migration of Britons to, 172; con-
quest by Edward I., 364; annexed to
Eng., 364.

Wales, pr. of, visits United States and Can-
ada, 544: India, 545.

Walja, k. of the West Goths, 172.
Wall of China, 32.
Wallace, sir Wm., 266.

Vijayanagar, Hindu kingdom of, 241, 353; Wallenstein, Albert of, 310, 313.

destruction, 354.

Vilagos, capitulation of, 495.

Villafafila, treaty of, 328.

Villafranca, meeting at, 502.

Villars, 366, 392, 393.
Villegagnon, 288.
Villehardouin, 216.
Villèle, ministry of, 527.
Villeroi, 370, 392.

Vinci, Leonardo da, 327.
Vindelicia, 34, 148, 167.
Vindex, C. Julius, 151.
Vinegar Hill, battle of, 536.
Vinland (America), 209, 281.
Vinoy, general, 532.
Vio, cardinal de, 301.
Vionville, battle of, 516.
Virginia, 98.

Virginia, named, 289; division of, 291;
first general assembly in, 292; massacre
of colonists in, 357; Bacon's rebellion,
359; resolutions of the house of bur-
gesses, 424; secedes, 556.
Viriathus, 123.

Visconti, John Galeazzo becomes duke of
Milan, 251; extinction of the line, 262,
318.

Visigoths. See West Goths.

Vitellius, Roman emp., 151.

Vitiges, k. of East Goths, 174.
Vittoria, battle of, 479, 537.

Vladimir the Great, of Russia, 276.

Vladislas III., of Poland, elected k., of
Hungary, 278; IV., 352.
Volabhis in India, 210.
Volero, Publilius, 97.

Vologeses, ks. of Parthia, III., war with
M. Aurelius, 30; IV., loses northern
Assyria, 30.

Volscii, wars with Romans, 97, 98, 100,
103 receive citizenship without suf-
frage, 104.
Voltaire, 400, 448.
Voltri, battle of, 462.
Vortigern, 37, 38.
Vossem, peace of, 367.

Vote by ballot in England, 545.
Vouillé, battle of, 174.

Vul-lush III., see Ramannarari.

Wachau, battle at, 478.

Waddington, ministry of, in France, 534.
Wadsworth, 362.

Wagram, battle of, 472.

Wahlstatt, battle of, 240, 477.

Waiblingen. See Welfs.

Wakefield, battle of, 272.
Walcheren expedition, 471.

Waldemar I., k. of Denmark, the Great,
235; II., the Conqueror, 224, 235; III.,
237.

Waldemar the False, 248.
Waldenses, 227.

Waller, 347.

Walpole, 434; administration 437; fall,
438.

Walsingham, 339.

Walter the Penniless, 200, 213.

Walter, Hubert, archb. of Canterbury, 233.
Waltzemüller, Martin, 283.
Wandewash, battle of, 444.
Warbeck, Perkin, 333.

Warsaw, battle of, 373; besieged by Prus-
sians, 414; captured by Russians, 490.
Warsaw, duchy of, created for the k. of
Saxony, 470; West Galicia ceded to,
472; a portion ceded to Prussia, 482;
the rest, as kingdom of Poland, to Rus-
sia, 483.

Wartburg, Luther at the, 302; festival of
the, 487.

Wartenburg, battle of, 478.

Warwick, e. of, impeachment, 270.
Warwick, e. of (the King-maker), takes up
arms, 272, 274.

Warwick, e. of, grant in America, 296.
Warwick, e. of, executed, 333.
Washington city laid out, 547.
Washington, treaty of, 545, 560.
Washington, George, expedition to the forts
on the Alleghany, 420; at Braddock's
defeat, 421; in continental congress, 426:
commander-in-chief, 427; war of inde-
pendence, 427-431; resigned his commis-
ission, 432; first pres. of U. S., 547; re-
elected, 548; death, 549.
Waterloo, battle of, 484, 538.
Watt, James, 486.
Wayne, 430, 547.

Webster, Daniel, speech in reply to Hayne,
553; U. S. sec. of state, 554, 555.
Wedmore, treaty of, 204.
Wehlau, treaty of, 373.
Weinsberg, battle of, 219.
Weissenburg, engagement at, 516.
Welf, 186, 199; V., marries Matilda of
Tuscany, 200.

Welfs, contest with the Hohenstaufen
(Waiblingen), 219, 224; genealogy of,

220.

Welfesholze, battle of, 201.

Wellesley, sir Arthur, in India 541. See
Wellington.

Wellington, d. of, 537; sketch of life, pen-
insula war, 471; in Portugal, 473; Vit-
toria, 479; in France, 481; congress of
Vienna, 482; Waterloo, 484; administra-
tion, 539; for. sec., 540; death, 543.
Welser, 286.

Wenceslaus. See Wenzel.

Wends, 168; wars with Henry I., 194;
Otto I., 195; Otto II., 197; Teutonic
knights, 218; subjugated by Waldemar
235, 249.

Wentworth, Thomas. See Strafford.
Wenzel, emp. of II. R. E., 250.

Werder, gen. von, 516, 519.

Werelæ, peace of, 409.

Werth, 313, 314, 315.

Wessex, founded, 178; growth of, 180;
kings of, become kings of England, 203;
Danes in, 204.
West, Francis, 295.

West Franks, separation from the East
Franks, 187; Carolingian rulers, 201;
develop into the French nation, 202.
Western empire separated from the eastern
empire, 16; fall of, 162, 173; revival by
Charles the Great, 185; by Otto I., 196.
West Goths, location, 170; enter the Roman
empire, 171; found kingdom in Spain,
172; under Theodoric, k. of the East
Goths, 174; conquered by the Arabs, 183.
Westminster assembly, 347.
Westminster, treaty of, 380, 403.
Weston, lord treasurer, 344.

Westphalia, 184; kingdom of, formed, 470;
fall of, 478; peace of, 315; conditions of
the peace, 316, 317.

West Point, 430.

West Virginia admitted to the Union, 558.
Wettin, house of, in Meissen, 218; receives
electoral Saxony, 252; division of the
line, 305

Wetzlar, imperial chamber at, 300.
Wexford, massacre of, 375.
Weymouth, George, 290.

Wharton, Thomas, sec. of state, 387; in the
whig junto, 435.

Wheatstone, 487.

Whigs, origin of the name, 382.

Whiskey insurrection 548.

White, John, gov.,

289.

White Hill, battle on, 309.

White Plains, battle of, 428.

Whitney, Eli, invented cotton gin, 548.
Whittington, sir Richard, 271.

Wiclif, doctrine as taught by Huss con-
demned, 252; in England, 269.
Widukind, 185.

Wiesloch, battle of, 310.
Wilderness, battle of the, 558.
Wilkes, John, 439, 440.

William I., the Conqueror, k. of England,
Hastings, 206; reign, 229. See William
duke of Normandy; II., the Red, reign
of, 230.

William and Mary sovereigns of England,
370, 371; reign, 385; of Scotland, 386;
wars with France, 370, 371; death of
Mary, 388. See William, prince of Or-
ange.

William III., k. of England, reign alone,
388, 389; war of Spanish succession, 390-
394; death, 389, 392; IV., 489; reign,
539; death, 491, 541.

William I., emperor of Germany, election,
519; attempted assassination, 524.
William I., k. of Holland, 489.

William Longsword, d. of Normandy, 202.
William, d. of Normandy's claim to the
English succession, 200, 206; conquest
of England, 206. See William I., k. of
England.

William I., of Orange, the Silent, 331.
William of Orange, 367; marriage with
Mary, 368, 381; becomes stadtholder,
380; declaration to the people of Eng-

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William the Lion, k. of Scotland, 232.
William II., k. of Sicily, 222.
William and Mary college, 362.
William and Mary, war of, 365.
Williams, Roger, 297, 357.
Wilmington, e. of, 438.
Wilmot proviso, 555.

Wimbledon, expedition against Cadiz, 342.
Wimpfen, battle of, 310.
Wimpffen, general, 517.
Winchester, statute of, 267.
Windischgrätz, pr., 495.
Winfrith. See Boniface.
Winkelried, Arnold of, 250.
Winthrop, John, 296.

Winthrop, John, son of gov. W., founda.
tion of Conn. colony by, 297.
Winwæd, battle of, 180.

Wisconsin, exploration of, 364; admitted
to the Union, 555.

Witt, de, 367, 383; commander, 379.
Wittelsbach, house of, in Bavaria, 222;

count palatine, 223; head of the union
and the league both of this house, 308;
Wilhelmian and Rudolfian line, 316;
Bavarian succession, 406.
Wittstock, battle of, 314.
Wladimir. See Vladimir.
Wocokon, island of, 289.
Woden. See Odin.
Wolfe, gen., 421, 422.
Wollaston, 295.

Wolseley, sir Garnet, 545, 546.
Wolsey, Thomas, card., 334.
Wolstenholme's Sound, 299.
"Wonderful" parliament, 269.
Worcester, battle of, 375.

Worcester, e. of, conspiracy against Henry
IV., 270.

Worcester, marquis of, 486.

Worms, capital of the old kingdom of Bur-
gundy, 170; concordat of, 201; diet of,
302.

Wörth, battle of, 516.

Wrangel, German commander, 494, 496,
505.

Wrangel, Swedish commander, 315.
Wrede, 480.

Wren, sir Christopher, 379.
Writs of assistance in Massachusetts, 422.
Wurschen, battle of, 476.
Würtemberg, rise of the Swabian counts
of, 244; contests with the league of Swa-
bian cities, 249, 250; duke Ulrich forced
to abdicate, 304; becomes an electorate,
464; enriched by the mediatization of
many imperial cities, 465; troops join
Napoleon, 467; becomes a kingdom and
acquires lands from Austria, 468; be
longs to the confederation of the Rhine
468; joins the allies, 479; joins the
North German confederation, 514.
Würzburg, diet at, 223; battle of, 458.
Wusterhausen, treaty of, 398.
Wyandots, 423.

Wyat, sır Francis, gov. of S. Virginia, 292.

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Yakub Beg, 562.

Yákub Khán, abdication of, 547.
Yale college, founded, 363.
Yamassees, Indian war, 417, 418.

Yeardley, sir George, gov. gen. of S. Vir-
ginia, 292.

Yedo, in Japan, 32; capital of the shogun,
356; name changed to Tokio, becomes
capital of the mikado, 563.
Ynglingar dynasty in Sweden, 208.
Yokohama, 32; opened to trade, 563.
York, James, duke of, grant of New
Netherlands, 358; lord high admiral,
378; professes Catholicism, 380; thrown
out by the test act, 380; exclusion bill,
381; succeeds as James II., k. of Eng-
land, 383.

York, gen., 474, 475, 478, 480.

York, house of, in the wars of the roses,
272.

Yorktown, siege of, 431.

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