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Abbott, Horace, 1806-
Manufacturer; born in Sudbury, Mass., July 29, 1806.
He built the first rolling-mill in the United States, and supplied the armor plates for the Monitor, Roanoke, Agamenticus, Monadnock, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , John Quincy 1767 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bache , Alexander Dallas 1806 - (search)
Bache, Alexander Dallas, 1806-
Physicist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 19. 1806; was a great-grandson of Dr. Franklin, and was graduated at the United States Military Academy with high honor in 1825, receiving the appointment of lieutenant of engineers, and remaining in the academy a while as assistant professor.
Two years he was under Colonel Totten in the construction of military works in Newport, where he married Miss Fowler, who, as his wife, was his great assistant in astronomical observations.
He resigned from the army in 1827, and from that time until 1832 he was a professor in the University of Pennsylvania.
Ardently devoted to scientific pursuits, he made important discoveries.
In 1836 he was chosen president of the board of trustees of Girard College, and he was very efficient in the organization of that institution.
He visited Europe to study various institutions of learning there; and in 1839 he published a Report on the European system of Edducationi.
In 1841
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bainbridge , William 1774 -1833 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Banneker , Benjamin 1731 -1806 (search)
Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806
A negro mathematician; born in Maryland, Nov. 9, 1731.
He taught himself mathematics; and for many years, while engaged in daily labor, made the necessary calculations for and published an almanac for Maryland and the adjoining States.
Mr. Jefferson presented one of his almanacs to the French Academy of Sciences, where it excited wonder and admiration, and the African almanac became well known to the scientific circles of Europe.
In 1790 he was employed by the commissioners in the survey of the boundaries of the District of Columbia.
His grandmother was an Englishwoman, who purchased a small plantation in Maryland, bought two slaves from a ship just from Africa and married one of them.
He died in Baltimore, in October, 1806.
Berlin decree, the.
In 1803 England joined the Continental powers against Napoleon.
England, offended because of the seizure of Hanover by the Prussians, at the instigation of Napoleon, made the act a pretext, in 1806, for employing against France a measure calculated to starve the empire.
By Orders in Council (May 16) the whole coast of Europe from the Elbe, in Germany, to Brest, in France, a distance of about 800 miles, was declared to be in a state of blockade, when, at the same time, the British navy could not spare vessels enough from other fields of service to enforce the blockade over a third of the prescribed coast.
It was essentially a paper blockade.
The almost entire destruction of the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar, a few months before, had annihilated her rivals in the contest for the sovereignty of the seas, and she now resolved to control the trade of the world.
Napoleon had dissolved the German Empire, prostrated Prussia at his feet, and, from the Impe
Boer,
A Dutch term meaning farmer.
given to the descendants of the Holland emigrants to the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.
They gradually extended civilization over a wide territory.
The British acquired the settlement in 1796 as a fruit of war. In 1803 it was restored to the Dutch, but in 1806 was again seized by the British.
In the Congress of Vienna (1814) Holland formally ceded it to Great Britain.
This settlement became known as Cape Colony.
A large majority of the Boers moved north in 1835-36, a number settling in the region which afterwards became known as the Orange Free State, and the remainder in the present colony of Natal.
The settlers in the latter region stayed there until Great Britain took possession of it in 1843, when they removed farther north, and organized the South African, or, as it has been generally called, the Transvaal, Republic.
In 1877 the South African Republic was annexed by the British government; in 1880 the Boers there rose in revolt: in 1881
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Breckenridge , John 1760 -1806 (search)
Breckenridge, John, 1760-1806
Statesman; born in Augusta county. Va., Dec. 2, 1760; was admitted to the bar in 1785; elected to Congress in 1793 but did not accept, having determined to remove to Kentucky, where he settled near Lexington.
He was appointed attorney-general of Kentucky in 1795.
In 1798 he met Jefferson and Nicholas at Monticello and prepared the famous Kentucky resolutions of 1798, of which Jefferson claimed the authorship.
In 1801 he was elected to the United States Senate, and resigned in 1805 to become Attorney-General under President Jefferson, which office he filled about four months. He died in Lexington, Ky., Dec. 14, 1806.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Campbell , John 1708 -1806 (search)
Campbell, John 1708-1806
Author; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, March 8, 1708; began his literary career early in life.
His publications relating to the United States include Concise history of Spanish America; Voyages and travels from Columbus to Anson; And trade of Great Britain to America.
He died Dec. 28, 1775.
Military officer; born in Strachur, Scotland; joined the British army in 1745; later came to America and while participating in the attack on Fort Ticonderoga in 1758 was d trade of Great Britain to America.
He died Dec. 28, 1775.
Military officer; born in Strachur, Scotland; joined the British army in 1745; later came to America and while participating in the attack on Fort Ticonderoga in 1758 was wounded; promoted lieutenant-general in 1787.
When the Revolutionary War broke out he was lieutenant-colonel of the 37th Foot, and commanded the British forces in west Florida until compelled to surrender Pensacola to the Spanish, May 10, 1781.
He died in 1806.