- fication—Compromise of 1820—Commercial Bankruptcy—Annexation of Texas—Mexican War—Discovery of
Gold in California—Gadsden Treaty 394-413
BIOGRAPHICAL DEPARTMENT.
Hernando Cortez 415
William Penn 441
Benjamin Franklin 467
Peter the Great 475
Count Rumford 498
Nicholas Copernicus 523
Tycho Brahe 526
Galileo 528
Kepler 531
Sir Isaac Newton 533
Huygens 536
Halley 537
Ferguson 539
Sir William Herschel 544
Simon Bolivar 547
Francia, the Dictator 554
Alexander Wilson 562
James Watt 569
John Howard 572
Lord Byron 598
Percy Bysshe Shelley 612
Oliver Goldsmith 615
Edward Gibbon 619
David Hume 623
Alexander Pope 627
John Adams 634
Thomas Jefferson 644
Samuel Adams 649
James Otis 651
Fisher Ames 653
Aaron Burr 655
Alexander Hamilton 657
Patrick Henry 660
John Hancock 664
Ethan Allen 665
Benedict Arnold 667
Horatio Gates 680
Thaddeus Kosciusko 681
Nathaniel Green 685
Frederick William Augustus Steuben 688
Baron de Kalb 689
Richard Montgomery 690
Gilbert Motier Lafayette 691
Israel Putnam 696
Stephen Decatur 698
Isaac Hull 700
Oliver Hazard Perry 702
John Marshall 704
John Paul Jones 706
Andrew Jackson 710
Winfield Scott 713
Zachary Taylor 714
