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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Decatur, Stephen, 1779- (search)
Decatur, Stephen, 1779- Naval officer; born in Sinnepuxent, Md., Jan. 5, 1779; died near Washington, D. C., March 22, 1820; entered the United States navy as a midshipman April 30, 1798, and rose to Stephen Decatur captain in 1804. His first notable exploit was the destruction of the Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli, in the Preble Expedition, for which Congress gave him thanks, a sword, and promotion. the Philadelphia had chased a Tripolitan ship into the harbor in front of that town, and struck upon a rock not laid down on the charts. Fast bound, she was captured by the Tripolitans, and Captain Bainbridge and his officers were made prisoners of war, and the crew were made slaves. Decatur caught a Tripolitan ketch laden with maidens, whom the Bashaw was sending to the Sultan at Constantinople as a present. The captured ketch was taken into the United States service and renamed the Intrepid. In her Decatur and seventy-four brave young men sailed for Tripoli, accom
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pike, Zebulon Montgomery 1779- (search)
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery 1779- Military officer; born in Lamberton, N. J., Jan. 5, 1779; was appointed a cadet in the regiment of his father (a captain in the army of the Revolution) and brevet lieutenantcolonel United States army when twenty years of age. He was made captain in 1806, and was appointed to lead an expedition in search of the sources of the Mississippi River, which performed the required duties satisfactorily in eight months and twenty days of most fatiguing explorations. In 1806-7 he was engaged in a geographical exploration of Louisiana, when he was seized by the Spaniards, taken to Santa Fe, and, after a long examination and the seizure of his papers, was escorted to Natchitoches (July 1, 1807) and dismissed. The government rewarded him with a major's commission (May, 1808). Passing through the various grades, he was commissioned brigadier-general March 12, 1813. Early in Zebulon Montgomery Pike. that year he had been appointed adjutant and inspector-gener
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colorado, (search)
t 380 miles; north and south, 280 miles. Area, 103,925 square miles, in fifty-five counties. Population, 1890, 412.198; 1900, 539,700. Capital, Denver. Expedition of Vasquez Coronado from Mexico, supposed to have entered this region......1541 Padre Francisco Escalanto, of New Mexico, makes an expedition into this territory......1776 Lieut. Zebulon Montgomery Pike, with twenty-three soldiers, explores it and discovers Pike's Peak......Nov. 15, 1806 He was born in New Jersey, Jan. 5, 1779; killed at the taking of York, now Toronto, Canada......1812 Maj. Stephen H. Long visits this region, and he reports to Congress that all the country drained by the Missouri, Arkansas, and Platte rivers is unsuitable for cultivation and uninhabitable......1819 [This impression aided to delay settlement of Colorado until Oregon and California had both been settled. Bancroft's Colorado, p. 349.] Bent brothers erect a stockade called Fort William on the north branch of the Arkansas