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INDEX.
- Bacon, Roger, 471.
- Bacon, Sir Nicholas, 555.
- Bactria, conquest of, by Alexander, 164, 165.
- Bagdad, founded, 400.
- Bailly (bā′li), French statesman, 652.
- Băj′a-zĕt, 462.
- Balaklava (bal′a-klä′vä), 695.
- Baldwin, count of Flanders, 446.
- Bal′e-ăr′ic Islands, 247.
- Balliol, John, k. of Scotland, 482.
- Ban′no̯ck-burn′, battle of, 483.
- Barbadoes (bar-ba′do̯z), 614.
- Bar′ba-ros′sa, Algerian pirate, 532, n.
- Barrack emperors, the, 325.
- Basques (basks), 3, 405.
- Bastile (bas-teel′), storming of the, 652.
- Batavian Republic, 674, 676, n.
- Băt′tues, 665.
- Bautzen (bowt′sen), battle of, 685.
- Bayard (bā′ard), Chevalier, 532.
- Be′his-tun′ Rock, 79.
- Belgium, kingdom of, 568, n.; revolution in, 689, n.
- Bel′i-sa′ri-us, 372, 389.
- Bel-shaz′zar, 60.
- Beluchistan (bel-loo′chis-tan′), 166.
- Benedictines, order of the, 383.
- Ben′e-ven′tum, battle of, 246.
- Benevolences, 541; resorted to, by Charles I., 606.
- Beresina, the, 684.
- Be̯rg′en, 469.
- Bergerac (ber-zheh-räk′), peace of, 575, n.
- Bẽrlin decree, 679.
- Bẽr′lin, treaty of (1878), 697, 698.
- Bes-sa-rā′bĭ-a, 698.
- Bes′ti-a, Roman consul, 277.
- Bias, 203, n.
- Bismarck, Otto von, 703.
- Bi-thyn′i-a, 442.
- Black Death, 485, n., 486, n.
- Black Prince, 485.
- Blenheim (blen′im), battle of, 597.
- Bloody Assizes, 622.
- Blucher (bloo′ker), 687.
- Boccaccio (bok-kät′cho), 474.
- Bœ-o′ti-a, 87.
- Bœotian League, 148.
- Bo′i-i, Gallic tribe, 255.
- Boleyn (bo͝ol′in), Anne, 544, 546, 549.
- Bonaparte, Jerome, 679.
- Bonaparte, Louis, 676, n.
- Bonaparte, Napoleon, defends the convention, 666; his Italian campaigns, 668; in Egypt, 669; in Syria, 670; overthrows the Directory, 671; First Consul, 673–675; proclaimed emperor, 675; his wars, 676–685 ; his second marriage, 681; at the summit of his power, 681, 682; first abdication, 685; second abdication, 688; his death, 688.
- Bordeaux (bor-dō′), 665.
- Borodino (bor-o-dee′no), battle of,683.
- Bor-sip′pa, temple of the Seven Spheres at, 61.
- Bos′nĭ-a̯′, 698.
- Bos′pho-rus, 79.
- Bosworth Field, battle of, 488.
- Boulak (boo-läk′) Museum, 39.
- Boulogne (boo-lōn′), 677.
- Bourbon, Constable of, 531.
- Bourbon, house of, in Huguenot Wars, 573, 574, 575, 578; Henry IV., k. of France, 578, 579. For other kings of this house, see Louis.
- Boyne (boin), battle of the, 627.
- Braddock, General, 631.
- Bradshaw, John, 613.
- Brahma, 10.
- Brahmanism, 9–11; modified by Buddhism, 12.
- Brahmans, 8.
- Brandenburg, 587; mark of, 642.
- Bras′i-das, Spartan general, 150.
- Bren′nus, 241.
- Bretigny, treaty of, 486, n.
- Britain, invaded by Cæsar, 292; conquest of, by Claudius, 311; the Hadrian Wall, 320.
- Bruce, Robert, k. of Scotland, 483.
- Brṳ′ġes̝, 469.
- Brṳ-mâire′, 671.
- Brun-di′si-um, 295.
- Brun-du′si-um, 447.
- Brunswick, house of. See Hanover.
- Bru′ti-um, 222.
- Brutus, L. Junius, 232.
- Brutus, the liberator, 299, 300, 302, 303.
- Bu-ceph′a-la, 165.
