[91] Edward Bates, of Missouri, was originally appointed Secretary of War, but declined the appointment.
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- Obvious punctuation and spelling errors have been fixed throughout.
- Inconsistent hyphenation has been left as in the original text.
- The illustrations referred to as being on page 610 and 872 in the list of illustrations does not exist.
- Incorrect page numbers in the list of illusatrations have been corrected to the real page numbers in the original text.
- Page [838]: The discovery of Venzuela by Ojeda is listed as 1449, independant references place this at 1499. Changed the text to match historical references.
- Page [862]: The resignation of Ramon Frier is listed as 1816, independant references place this at 1826. Changed the text to match historical references.