Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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f December the Vir-ginius, which had been taken to Havanaby her captors some time before, wastowed irom that harbor and delivered toan American vessel sent to receive her.She was carried to Key West, fromwhich port she was ordered to NewYork. On the voyage she foundered atsea in a gale off Cape Fear, on thetwenty-sixth of December. At a laterperiod the Spanish government paid theindemnity demanded by the UnitedStates, FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO OUR WAR WITH SPAIN. 105 On the ninth of November, 1872, afireoccurred in Boston, and burned untillate on the tenth, sweeping over a areaof sixty-five acres in the centre of thewholesale trade of the city, and destroy-ing property to the amount of seventy-eight million dollars. As this fire was at length became dissatisfied with theirnew location, which they declared wasunable to afford them a support, andbegan a series of depredations upon thesettlements of the whites, which soondrew upon them the vengeance of theFederal government. Troops were sent
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THE LAVA BEDS—SCENE OF THE MODOC WAR. confined to the business quarter ol thecity, comparatively few persons weredeprived of their homes. Early in 1873, a troublesome war be-gan with the Modoc Indian tribe on thePacific coast. These Indians had beenremoved by the government from theirold homes in California to reservationsin the northern part of Oregon. They against them, but they retreated totheir fastnesses in the lava beds, wherethey maintained a successful resistancefor several months. The governmentat length reinforced the troops operatingagainst them, and General Canby, com-manding the department of the Pacific,assumed the immediate command of thetroops in the field, 106 FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO OUR WAR WITH SPAIN. At the same time, a commission wasappointed by the government to en-deavor to settle the quarrel with theIndians peaceably. This commissionheld several conferences with CaptainJack, the head chief of the Modocs,and the other Indian leaders, but accom-plished nothing. A

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