Page 580. Down the Little Big Horn. Custer, who was thirty-seven years old at the time of his death, had served with great distinction through the Civil War. He was bitterly censured for accepting battle upon the Little Big Horn, and accused of disobedience of orders, but no basis for this accusation was ever clearly shown.
Page 580. Just from the canyon emerging. Custer and the five companies with him advanced without hesitation into the jaws of death, for they were outnumbered twelve to one. They dismounted and planted themselves on two little hills a short distance apart. The Indians stampeded their horses, waited till their ammunition was exhausted, and then overwhelmed them.
Page 580. Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull, who commanded the Indians, was a Sioux chief and was born about 1837. He was killed during the Sioux outbreak of December, 1890.
Page 583. In ambush the Sitting Bull. There was no ambush. The battle was fought in the open, from high ground. Custer's surprise lay not in finding the Indians before him, but in finding them so fatally numerous.
Page 584. The brave heart. Two days after the battle, a detachment of cavalry discovered the bodies of Custer and his five companies. Custer alone had not been mutilated. He had been shot in the left temple, and lay as though peacefully sleeping.
Page 593. The Brooklyn Bridge. The bridge had been begun January 3, 1870, and was not wholly completed at the time of its opening in 1883. Its cost was about twenty million dollars.
Page 615. Bocagrande. The main channel into Manila Bay south of Corregidor Island. It means, literally, "large mouth."
Page 616. Montojo. Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarou, commander of the Spanish naval forces in the Philippines.
Page 616. Gridley. Charles Vernon Gridley (1845-1898), captain of Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Olympia.
Page 626. Eight Volunteers. Besides Hobson, the volunteers were Osborn Deignan, a coxswain of the Merrimac; George F. Phillips, a machinist of the Merrimac; John Kelly, a water-tender of the Merrimac; George Charette, a gunner's mate of the New York; Daniel Montagu, a seaman of the Brooklyn; J. C. Murphy, a coxswain of the Iowa; and Randolph Clausen, a coxswain of the New York.