Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership

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by Conrad Black


  Citicorp

  Civil Rights Act of 1866

  Civil Rights Act of 1875

  Civil Rights Act of 1964

  Civil War; Anaconda Plan; Antietam; Appomattox Court House surrender; Atlanta; and Britain; Bull Run (Manassas); casualties of; conscription & volunteers; Emancipation Proclamation; Fort Sumter; Gettysburg; Hampton Roads Conference; Murfreesboro; Petersburg; Richmond; secession votes; Seven Days’ Battles; Seven Pines; Sherman’s March; Shiloh; Spotsylvania; and veterans’ pensions; Vicksburg

  Clark, Beauchamp (Champ)

  Clark, Mark

  Clark, William

  Clay, Henry; on abolitionists; and Bank of the U.S.; censure of Jackson; and Compromise of 1850; as “Great Pacificator,” loyalists of; as presidential candidate; Senate retirement; on tariffs; on Texas annexation; as war hawk; and Whig Party

  Clayton, John M.

  Clayton Anti-Trust Act

  Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

  Clemenceau, Georges

  Cleveland, Stephen Grover; and Hawaii; second presidency

  Clifford, Clark: on Israel; on Reagan; and Vietnam

  Clinton, De Witt

  Clinton, George; as vice president

  Clinton, Henry

  Clinton, Hillary Rodham

  Clinton, William J. (Bill); and Bosnia; as career politician; domestic measures; and Gulf War; and Haiti; and Kosovo; and mortgage crisis; NATO expansion; and Northern Ireland; and Oslo Accords; prudence of; and Rwanda; and Somalia; and terrorism; on UN funding

  Clive, Robert

  Colby, Bainbridge

  Cold War; Eisenhower de-escalation efforts; end of; Marshall Plan; and Mutual Assured Destruction; Reagan & Gorbachev

  Cole, USS

  Colfax, Schuyler

  Collins, J. Lawton

  Collinson, Peter

  Colombia; and Panama

  Committee on the Present Danger

  Common Sense (Paine)

  Confederate States of America; battle flags of; readmission & Reconstruction; and Tyler

  Conference for Progressive Political Action

  Conflans, Hubert de Brienne, Count de

  Congo

  Congressional Medal of Honor

  Congress of Berlin

  Congress of Vienna

  Conkling, Roscoe

  Consalvi, Ercole Cardinal

  Constitutional Convention

  Constitutional Union Party

  Continental Army; demobilizing of; force size; and militia

  Continental Congress; Declaration of Independence; flight from Philadelphia; funding calls; and Paris peace talks; petitions to king; and war debt; Washington’s commission; weakness of

  Conway Cabal

  Cooke, Alistair

  Cooke, Jay

  Coolidge, Calvin

  Cornell, Alonzo B.

  Cornwallis, Charles, Lord

  Coughlin, Charles E., Father

  Coulson, J.E.

  Cox, Archibald

  Cox, James M.

  Coxey, Jacob

  Crawford, William H.

  Creole mutiny

  Crittenden, John J.

  Croce, Benedetto

  Crockett, Davy

  Cronkite, Walter

  Cuba; and Angola; Bay of Pigs; and Berlin; Castro revolution; FDR policy on; and Gorbachev; independence of; López attack; Maine explosion; missile crisis; and Ostend Manifesto; and Platt Amendment; rebels in; and Spanish-American War; and Watergate

  Cumberland, William August, Duke of

  Cumming, Thomas

  Cunningham, Andrew

  Curley, James Michael

  Curtis, Charles

  Custer, George Armstrong

  Czechoslovakia; Communist coup in; and Hitler; Soviet invasion of

  Czech Republic

  Czolgosz, Leon

  Daladier, Edouard

  Daley, Richard

  Dallas, George M.

  Daniels, Josephus

  Darlan, Jean François

  Dartmouth, William Legge, Lord

  Daugherty, Harry M.

  Davie, William

  Davies, Joseph

  Davis, David

  Davis, Henry Gassaway

  Davis, Jefferson; as Confederate president; pro-slavery resolutions; as secretary of war

  Davis, John W

  Dawes, Charles Gates

  Dawes Plan

  Day, William R.

  Dayton, William L.

  Dean, John

  Deane, Silas

  Dearborn, Henry

  Debs, Eugene V

  Decatur, Stephen

  Declaration of Independence; and Constitution; and French Revolution; on Indians; and Jefferson’s gravestone

  Declaration of the United Nations (Atlantic Charter)

  De Gasperi, Alcide

  de Gaulle, Charles; ambitions of; appeasing Arabs; blaming America; at Casablanca Conference; and Churchill; and Cuban missile crisis; on D-Day; death of; “dictatorial personality,” ; and Eisenhower; and Fifth Republic; and Free France movement; and general strikes; and Germany; and Kennedy; on MacArthur; and NATO; and Nixon; and Roosevelt; Stalin on; in U.S.; and U-2 fiasco; and Vietnam

  de Lattre de Tassigny, Jean

  Delors, Jacques

  Democratic Party; Chicago’68 convention; and Clintons; on gold standard; and Jackson; lack of convictions in; on League of Nations; racial attitudes; radical 1972 platform; and Reconstruction; slavery division; and southern vote; and Tammany Hall; and Vietnam

  Democratic-Republicans

  Deng Xiao-ping

  Dependent Pension Act

  De Valera, Eamon

  Devers, Jacob

  Dewey, George

  Dewey, Thomas E.; and Eisenhower

  Diaz, Porfirio

  Dickinson, Angie

  Dickinson, John

  Dieckhoff, Hans Heinrich

  Diem, Ngo Dinh; and Buddhist monks; murder of

  Dillon, Douglas

  Dinwiddie, Robert

  Dirksen, Everett

  Disraeli, Benjamin

  Dixiecrats

  Djilas, Milovan

  Dobrynin, Anatoly

  Dodge, Henry

  Doenitz, Karl

  Dole, Robert

  Dole, Sanford B.

  Dominican Republic; debt crisis in; military intervention in; and Trujillo

  Donelson, Andrew

  Doolittle, James A.

  Doubleday, Abner

  Douglas, Helen Gahagan

  Douglas, Stephen A.; and Clay; and Kansas-Nebraska Act; and Lincoln debates; on “popular sovereignty,” as presidential candidate

  Dred Scott v. Sanford

  Dubček, Alexander

  Dukakis, Michael S.

  Duke, James Buchanan

  Dulles, Allen; and Bay of Pigs; and United Fruit Company; and Vietnam

  Dulles, Avery

  Dulles, John Foster; and Chiang Kai-shek; and Chou En-lai; criticism of; and Egypt; and Germany; on Korea; successes of; as uncongenial

  Dumas, Charles

  Dunmore, John Murray, Lord

  Dupuy de Lome, Enrique

  Duquesne, Abraham

  Dutch East Indies

  Eagleburger, Lawrence

  Eagleton, Thomas

  Early, Jubal T.

  East Germany; and Berlin Wall; opening & reunification

  East India Company

  East Pakistan

  Eaton, John

  Eaton, Peggy O’Neal

  Eden, Anthony; and Balkans settlement; on German division; and Roosevelt meeting; and Suez crisis; on Turkish president

  Edward VII, King

  Edwards, John

  Egypt; Aswan Dam; and Camp David Accords; and Israel’s Sinai attack; Mubarak ouster; Six-Day War; and Suez crisis; and Yom Kippur War

  Ehrlichman, John

  Einstein, Albert

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.; achievements; as Anglophile; at Buchenwald; budget discipline; and Castro; and China; and Churchill; and CIA; Cold
War de-escalation; and Columbia University; command structure; containment strategy; and Cuban exiles; and D-Day (Overlord); and defense economy; and de Gaulle; and desegregation; domino theory; and Formosa Resolution; and Germany; heart attack; and hostile Congress; and ICBMs; and Indochina; interstate highway project; and Khrushchev; and Korean War; and Latin America; and Lebanon; and Marshall; and McCarthy; and Mossadegh; and NASA; and Nasser; as NATO commander; and Nixon; nomination maneuvering; North Africa command; on nuclear weapons; Open Skies plan; presidential draft effort; public approval; reception abroad; reelection; show of strength; and space program; and Sputnik; and Stalin; stroke; and Suez crisis; and Truman; and U-2 fiasco; and Vietnam; in World War II; and Yalta agreements

  Eisenhower, Milton

  Eisenhower Doctrine

  Electoral College; in Bush-Gore election; in Hayes—Tilden election; in Jefferson—Burr election; and three-fifths rule; and vice presidency; and Washington

  Elizabeth, Czarina

  Elizabeth II, Queen

  Ellsberg, Daniel

  Ellsworth, Oliver

  El Salvador

  Ely, Paul

  Emancipation Proclamation

  Embargo Act (1807)

  Endara, Guillermo

  Enfant, Pierre-Charles l’

  English, William H.

  Enlightenment

  Entente Cordiale

  Enterprise, USS

  Environmental Protection Agency

  Erie Canal

  Erskine, David

  Ervin, Sam

  Estaing, Charles Henri (Admiral), Count d’

  Ethiopia

  European Advisory Commission

  European Commission

  European Common Market

  European Defense Community

  European Parliament

  European Union

  Eustis, William

  Everett, Edward

  Everts, William Maxwell

  Explorer 1

  Fairbanks, Charles W

  Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia

  Fall, Albert B.

  Farley, James A.

  Farouk, King of Egypt

  Farragut, David

  Fatah

  Fauchet, Joseph

  Faure, Edgar

  Federal Home Loan Bank Act

  Federal Republic of Germany; and Reagan; and reunification; see also Germany

  Federal Reserve; and Roosevelt; and subprime mortgage crisis; Volker policy

  Federal Trade Commission Act

  Federalist Papers

  Federalist Party; divisions among; and immigrants; vs. Jefferson; weakening of; and Whigs

  Fenno, John

  Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prince

  Ferguson, Patrick

  Ferraro, Geraldine

  Fillmore, Millard; and Know-Nothings

  Finch, Robert

  Finland

  Fish, Hamilton

  Fisk, Jim

  Foch, Ferdinand

  Forbes, John

  Ford, Gerald R.; vs. Carter; Nixon pardon; as president

  Formosa; see also Taiwan

  Formosa Resolution

  Forrestal, James V.

  Forsyth, John

  Fort Duquesne

  Fort Edward

  Fort Frontenac

  Fort Necessity

  Fort Ticonderoga (Carillon)

  Fort William Henry

  Foster, John

  Foster, Stephen

  Foster, William Z.

  Fox, Charles James; and naval blockade

  France; and Algeria; and American Revolution; British defeat of; and Canada; and Civil War; Colbert’s economics; Communists in; and Convention of 1800; declining power of; and embargo; on European Defense Community; Fifth Republic; general strikes in; and Genêt’s privateers; German occupation of; greatness of; in Indochina / Vietnam; and Jackson; and Kellogg-Briand Pact; liberation of; and Louisiana Territory; and Mexico; Monroe in; and Morocco; Napoleonic Wars; and Panama Canal Company; Prussian defeat of; Resistance in; Revolution of 1848; and Rhineland occupation; in Seven Years’ War; ship seizures by; Spain invasion; and Statue of Liberty; and Suez crisis; and Texas; Third Republic instability; transitory government in; Vichy regime; XYZ affair; see also French Revolution

  Franco, Francisco

  Franco-American Treaty of Friendship

  Franco-German Friendship Treaty

  Franco-Prussian War

  Franklin, Benjamin; as abolitionist; on American potential; and Braddock; on Canada; and Committee of Safety; and Constitution; constitution proposal; death of; and Declaration of Independence; diplomacy in London; esteem for; FDR comparison; and France; grand council proposal; on Intolerable Acts; at Paris peace talks; and Penn family; as polemicist; and son; on Stamp Act; on Townshend taxes

  Franklin, William

  Franks, Tommy

  Franz Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria

  Franz Joseph, Emperor

  Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia

  Frederick William, King of Prussia

  Freedmen’s Bureau

  Free Soil Party

  Frelinghuysen, Frederick T.

  Frelinghuysen, Theodore

  Frémont, John C.

  French and Indian Wars. See Seven Years’ War

  French Revolution; and Terror

  Freneau, Philip

  Frick, Henry Clay

  Friedman, Milton

  Fries, John

  Fuchs, Klaus

  Fugitive Slave Act; and Dred Scott

  Gadsden Purchase

  Gallatin, Albert; and War of 1812

  Gambier, James, Lord

  Gandhi, Indira

  Gandhi, Mahatma

  Gardner, Augustus

  Garfield, James Abram

  Garibaldi, Giuseppe

  Garner, John Nance

  Garrison, Lindley

  Garrison, William Lloyd

  Gates, Horatio

  Genet, Edmond Charles (Citizen)

  Geneva Accord

  Geneva Convention

  George, Walter

  George I, King

  George II, King

  George III, King; demonization of; domestic opposition to; on Franklin; intransigence of

  George V, King

  George VI, King

  Gerasimov, Gennadi

  Germany: banking collapse in; Berlin blockade; Berlin Wall; Federal Republic recognized; Kennedy’s Berlin speech; and Khrushchev; Kristallnacht; and NATO; as naval & colonial power; Nazi rise; occupation zones in; rearmament of; reparations by; reunification of; and revenge; and Samoa; as semi-giant; unification of; see also East Germany; Federal Republic of Germany; Prussia; World War I; World War II

 

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