Annals of San Francisco, 237

annexation (Texas), 146–149, 152–153, 155, 166–167, 187

anti-monopoly tactic

post and military road designation, 386, 392

anti-slavery, 156, 337, 356–357

Articles of War, 291

Aspinwall, William H., 227–228

Ayres, Eli, 52–54, 57–58

Badger, Senator George (North Carolina), 296–299

Baker, Rev. Alfred B., 397

Baltimore, 9, 18–20, 22, 45, 145, 561

Chinkapin Hill, 20, 22

defended by sailors and marines as infantry, 18–19

Fort McHenry, 20–21

Lazaretto, 21–22

North Point (site of British invasion attack on Baltimore), 20–21

Patuxent River, 18

Baltimore clipper, 45

Baltimore Democratic Convention (1852), 301, 303–304, 310, 312–313, 346–347

Bancroft

George (Secretary of the Navy), 152, 155, 157, 162, 170, 173, 186, 195, 215, 220, 250

Hubert Howe (historian of California), 232, 553

Misrepresentations of Early California History Corrected, 232, 553

Bank of England, 63, 93–96, 403–404, 406–407

Banks, Nathaniel P., 356–358, 394, 562

Barbary War, 9, 24, 26

Tunis, Tripoli, Algiers, 24, 28

Baring Brothers & Co., 84, 93

Basking Ridge Academy, 8

Battle of Bladensburg, 20

Battle of North Point, 20–21

Battle of the Nile, 15

Bayard, Samuel J., 226–227, 353–354, 359, 547–548, 553

Beale, Edward F. (Lt.), 197, 227–228, 549

Bear Flag Insurrection, 168–169, 171, 173, 177, 181–182, 217, 230, 243

Bell, John, 351, 371

Belvidera (HMS), 16, 61

Bennett, James Gordon, 365

Benton, Senator Thomas (father-in-law of Frémont), 148–151, 167–168, 230–231, 241, 245, 248, 252

Bible

Douay version, 138

King James version, 138

Biddle

Commodore James, 59, 224

Nicholas, 65, 93, 223

Bigelow, John, 352

Bill, Alfred Hoyt, 460, 463–464, 478, 482, 485, 489, 492, 495–496, 500, 507, 510, 515, 523–524, 531, 533–536, 548

Binghamton Platform, 355

Bladek, John David, 560, 562

Bladensburg, Battle of, 20