life in the woods, 127.
  sees an Indian war-dance, 127.
  is made public surveyor, 127.
  appearance of, at twenty-one, 128.
  receives title of major, 128.
  governor of Virginia sends him to order off the French, 128.
  journey through the wilderness, 128, 129.
  narrow escape of, 129.
  receives title of colonel, 130.
  goes with Braddock’s expedition, 130.
  tries to hold Fort Necessity, 130.
  goes to Mount Vernon to live, 135.
  his slaves, 135.
  made commander-in-chief in the Revolution, 135.
  takes command of army, 135.
  raises first American flag, 135 and (note) 142.
  drives British from Boston, 136, 169.
  goes to New York, 137.
  chased by Cornwallis, 137.
  retreats across the Delaware, 137.
  victory of Trenton, 138.
  victory of Princeton, 139.
  at Valley Forge, 139.
  enters Philadelphia, 139.
  marches against Yorktown, 142.
  takes Yorktown, 142.
  his coat-of-arms (note), 142.
  goes back to Mount Vernon, 144.
  elected President, 144.
  takes oath of office, 144. 
  Lafayette visits his tomb, 144.
  summary of, 145.

Washington, Lawrence, at Mount Vernon, 126.
  death of, 135. 
  Colonel William, 210 and note.

Washington, the Capitol at, burned, 204.
  rebuilt, 204.

Watauga (Wa-taw’ga), settlement of, 158.

Wayne, General, in Ohio, 173.

Weathersford and General Jackson, 216.

West, the, in the Revolution, 161.
  conquest of, 161-167.
  at treaty of peace with England, 167.
  settlement of, 150, 157, 170.
  acquisition of country west of the Mississippi, see United States.
  effects of steamboat navigation on, 199, 200.
  effects of railroads on, 218.
  rapid growth of, 263. 
  See Boone, Clark, Robertson, Sevier, Jefferson, Houston, Gray,
    Sutter.

Weymouth, Standish fights Indians at, 71.

What Cheer Rock, Providence, 85.

White, Father, in Maryland, 78, 80.

Whitney, Eli, birth and boyhood of, 175.
  cuts his name on a door, 175.
  makes a fiddle, 176.
  makes nails, 177.
  goes to Yale College, 177.
  his skill with tools, 177.
  goes to Georgia, 178.
  stops with Mrs. General Greene, 178.
  makes her an embroidery frame, 178.
  has a talk about cotton and cotton-seeds, 179.
  invents the cotton-gin, 180.
  effect of his invention, 181, 183.
  builds a gun-factory, 181.
  makes muskets for War of 1812, 181.
  summary of, 182.

Wilderness, the Great, 161.

“Wilderness Road,” Boone makes the, 150.