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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Battles. (search)
rt Erie (Sortie from)Sept. 17, 1814 ChippewaOct. 15, 1814 Lyon's CreekOct. 19, 1814 PensacolaNov. 7, 1814 Villere‘s Plantation (New Orleans)Dec. 23, 1814 Rodriguez's Canal (New Orleans)Jan. 1, 1815 New OrleansJan. 8, 1815 Fort St. PhilipJan. 9, 1815 Point Petre (Ga.)Jan. 13, 1815 naval engagements. Chesapeake and Leopard (impressment, former defeated)June 22, 1807 President and Little Belt (latter defeated)May 16, 1811 President and Belvidera (former escaped)June 23, 1812 Essex and rt Erie (Sortie from)Sept. 17, 1814 ChippewaOct. 15, 1814 Lyon's CreekOct. 19, 1814 PensacolaNov. 7, 1814 Villere's Plantation (New Orleans)Dec. 23, 1814 Rodriguez's Canal (New Orleans)Jan. 1, 1815 New OrleansJan. 8, 1815 Fort St. PhilipJan. 9, 1815 Point Petre (Ga.)Jan. 13, 1815 naval engagements. Chesapeake and Leopard (impressment, former defeated)June 22, 1807 President and Little Belt (latter defeated)May 16, 1811 President and Belvidera (former escaped)June 23, 1812 Essex and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Orleans. (search)
iking the guns, escaping on board the Louisiana. Then Thornton recrossed the river and joined the retiring army. In this terrible battle the British lost 2.600 men, killed, wounded, and made prisoners; while the Americans, sheltered by their breastworks, lost only eight killed and thirteen wounded. The history of human warfare presents no parallel to this disparity in loss. On the western side of the river the British had 100 killed and wounded: the Americans six. The next morning (Jan. 9, 1815) detachments from both armies were engaged in burying the dead on the plain. The Kentuckians carried to the British detachment the bodies of their slain comrades on the scaling-ladders they had brought. The bodies of the dead British officers were buried on Villereas plantation, not far from his mansion, and those of Pakenham and several others were placed in casks of rum and sent to England. On Jan. 18 a general exchange of prisoners took place, and under cover of the next night Gener
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Taxes. (search)
usively employed in husbandry......Dec. 15, 1814 Fifty per cent. added upon licenses to retailers of wines, etc., and 100 per cent. on sales by auction......Dec. 23, 1814 Direct tax of $6,000,000 laid upon the United States annually......Jan. 9, 1815 Internal-revenue tax of $1 per ton imposed on pig-iron; 1 cent per lb. on nails; also tax on candles, paper, hats, umbrellas, playing-cards, boots, tobacco, leather, etc., and an annual duty on household furniture, and gold and silver watchnd paste-work manufactured within the United States......Feb. 27, 1815 Direct tax of $19,998.40 laid on the District of Columbia annually, by act......Feb. 27, 1815 Acts of Jan. 18 and Feb. 27, 1815, repealed......Feb. 22, 1816 Act of Jan. 9, 1815, and Feb. 27 repealed, and direct tax of $3,000,000 laid on the States, and direct tax of $9,999.20 laid on the District of Columbia......March 5, 1816 Duties on household furniture and watches kept for use removed by act......April 9, 1816
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
General Jackson occupies Pensacola......Nov. 6, 1814 Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, fifth Vice-President of the United States, dies at Washington, D. C., aged seventy......Nov. 23, 1814 Hartford Convention meets at Hartford, Conn.......Dec. 15, 1814 Martial law proclaimed in New Orleans by General Jackson......Dec. 15, 1814 Treaty of peace signed by the commissioners at Ghent......Dec. 24, 1814 Congress levies a direct tax of $6,000,000 (number of States, eighteen)......Jan. 9, 1815 [The largest assessment, that of New York State, was $864,283.24; the smallest, of Delaware, $64,092.50.] Congress imposes duties on household furniture and on gold and silver watches......Jan. 18, 1815 United States purchases Jefferson's library, consisting of about 7,000 volumes, for the use of Congress, for $23,000......Jan. 26, 1815 Bill to incorporate the Bank of the United States is vetoed by President Madison......Jan. 30, 1815 Treaty of peace reaches New York in the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
son arrives at New Orleans......Dec. 2, 1814 British threaten New Orleans and capture gunboats under Lieut. Thos. A. C. Jones......Dec. 14, 1814 Battle at Villereas plantation, 12 miles from New Orleans; the English advance repulsed by General Jackson......Dec. 23, 1814 Battle at Chalmette's plantation; British repulsed......Dec. 28, 1814 Battle at Rodriguez Canal......Jan. 1, 1815 Battle of New Orleans....Jan. 8, 1815 Unsuccessful attack on Fort St. Philip by the British......Jan. 9-18, 1815 British General Lambert abandons expedition against New Orleans......Jan. 19, 1815 General Jackson orders all French subjects having certificates of discharge to return to the interior, Feb. 28. Has Louallier arrested as a spy; Hall, as abetting a mutiny in granting a habeas corpus for Louallier; arrests Hollander; releases all three; and for high-handed methods is tried and fined $1,000......1815 Frederic Tudor ships ice to New Orleans from Boston......1820 Thomas B. R