Shaw, Albert, and Panama Revolution, 189.
Sherman, W. T., selected for special mission to Mexico, 234, 235.
Sickles, Daniel E., mission to Spain, 109-118.
Slidell, John, introduces bill for purchase of Cuba, 106.
Spain, colonial policy of, 4-12; revolution of 1820, 56, suppressed by French army, 63; revolution of 1868, 107; republic proclaimed in, 113; treaty of 1898 with United States, 136; claims against Mexico, 197; decides on joint intervention in Mexico, 203; withdraws troops from Mexico, 212, 213; extent of colonial empire at beginning of nineteenth century, 261; war with Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, 298, 299.
Spanish-American republics, accorded belligerent rights, 48; recognized as independent by United States, 53, by England, 80.
Spooner, J. C., offers amendment to canal bill, 184.
Sucre, Antonio José de, Venezuelan general, 42-44.
Suez Canal Convention, and Hay-Pauncefote treaty, 181.
Sumner, Charles, opposes annexation of Danish West Indies and Santo Domingo, 264, 265.
Taft, W. H., proclaims provisional government in Cuba, 142; tries to settle differences with Colombia resulting from Panama Revolution, 270-274; relations with Nicaragua and Honduras, 280-285; and Huerta revolution, 308.
Taylor, Zachary, issues proclamation warning Americans against aiding Lopez expedition against Cuba, 93; and Mexican War, 263.
Texas, claim to, abandoned by the United States, 261; establishment of independence of, 262; admitted to Union, 263.
Thayer, W. R., version of Holleben incident, 252-254.
Trade, with Spanish colonies, monopoly of, 12-14.
Tyler, John, and annexation of Texas, 262, 263.
Venezuela, declares independence, 38; war of liberation, 39-42; dispute with Great Britain over boundary of British Guiana, 238-249; intervention of Germany, England, and Italy in, 249-252; neutral in Great War, 312, 316.
Vera Cruz, landing of American Marines at, 309.
Viceroy, office of, in Spanish colonies, 4, 5, 12.
Villa, Francisco, Mexican insurrectionary chief, 309, 310.
Walker, J. G., head of commission to investigate canal routes, 182; report of, 183, 184.
Walker, William, invasion of Central America, 163.
Webster, Daniel, Cuban policy of, 90, 97.
Wellington, Duke of, withdraws from Congress of Verona, 60.