, flag used in, 9.

"King's Flag," 3;
displayed at Castle Island, 6-7.

Lafayette visited by Pulaski, welcomed to Baltimore, 49, 50.

Las Guasimas, 75.

"Last battle of the Revolution," 53.

Lexington, 31;
battle of, 35; 39.

Liberty, the demand for, 14.

"Liberty Elm," Massachusetts history associated with the, 30.

"Liberty Hall," 16.

Liberty Pole, cut down in New York, 31.

"Liberty Tree," in Boston, 16, 17;
of South Carolina, 30;
Paine's poem on the, 31.

Lincoln, President, 72.

"Lion of the North," 2.

London, 52;
honors the Stars and Stripes, 84.

Longfellow, poem of, "Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem," 50.

Louisburg, the New Englanders at, 12-13.

Louisiana, admitted to the Union, 63.

Louisiana Territory, purchased by the United States, 58.

Lowell, quotation from, 63.

Lowell (city), bunting made in, 66.

Lynch, Thomas, sent to Cambridge by Congress, 32.

Maryland, 61.

Massachusetts, troubles concerning the cross in the flag, 4-7; 8, 9;
flag of the "Three County Troop" in, 9;
use of "pine tree" in, 10, 11, 15;
flag of, after Bunker Hill, 22; 27;
motto of, 30;
decrees the use of the pine-tree flag, 35; 66; 68; 86.

Mediterranean Sea, freed from Pirates, 58.

Memorial Day, 81.

Mexico, war with, 70.

Mexico, the City of, captured by Americans, 70-71.

Middlesex (county), 9, 20.

Monroe, President, signs a bill decreeing the use of the Star-Spangled
Banner, 64.

Moravian Sisters, make banner for Pulaski, 50.

Morris, Robert, 40.

Mottoes on flags, 12, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 25, 28, 30, 36, 54.

Moultrie, 71.

Moultrie, Colonel, defends Fort Moultrie, 23-24.

Nantucket, 52, 53.

Nashville, 68.

National Museum, "Star-Spangled Banner" of Francis Scott Key in, 61.

Netherlands, flag of the, 34.

New Amsterdam, 2.

Newbury, flag of the militia in, 8-9.

Newburyport, patrol, of, 15.

New England, alliance of the folk of, 9-10; 18.

New Englanders, 10;
set off to capture Louisburg, 12.

"New England Flag," the, 21.

New Hampshire, 15, 43.

New Haven, peace rejoicing in, 54.

New Mexico, admitted to the Union, 66.

New World, 2, 58.

New York, founded by the Dutch, 2;
flag of, 15;
arrival of stamps at, 16;
liberty pole in, 17-18;
hoists flag with beaver device, 22; 27; 31;