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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
y men to surrender; later in the day 101 of his men, having disobeyed the governor's orders to disband, are captured by Colonel Cooke, U. S. A., and confined in camp at Lecompton. About twenty of these men were convicted in October of murder, and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary)......Sept. 13, 1856 John Brown assists the free-State men at Lawrence in the defence of the town; Governor Geary orders Woodson and Strickler to disband the pro-slavery army on the Wakarusa......Sept. 14, 1856 The pro-slavery forces encamped near Lawrence since the 14th are prevailed upon by the governor to disband and return to Missouri......Sept. 17, 1856 Publication of Kansas: its Interior and exterior life, by Mrs. Sara T. L. Robinson......Oct. 24, 1856 Governor Geary announces that peace prevails throughout the Territory of Kansas ......Nov. 11, 1856 Col. William A. Phillips publishes his book, The conquest of Kansas by Missouri and her allies......1856 The United States Ho
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, chapter 1.27 (search)
of the Christian Indian I have before named, and his wife. I saw Dr. Graham, of Prairie City, who was a prisoner with the ruffians on the 2d of June, and was present when they wounded him, in an attempt to kill him, s he was trying to save himself from being murdered by them during the fight at Black Jack. I know that numerous other persons, whose names I cannot now remember, suffered like hardships and exposures to those I have mentioned. I know well that on or about the 14th of September, 1856, a large force of Missourians and other ruffians, said by Governor Geary to be twenty-seven hundred in number, invaded the Territory, burned Franklin, and, while the smoke of that place was going up behind them, they, on the same day, made their appearance in full view of, and within about a mile of Lawrence; and I know of no reason why they did not attack that place, except that about one hundred free state men volunteered to go out, and did go out on the open plain before the town,
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 20: (search)
nt de faire ici une perte immense, par la mort si inattendue du plus grand anatomiste de notre siecle, le Professeur Jean Muller. Johann Muller had recently died, only fifty-seven years old. C'est une perte toute aussi immense pour les sciences, que la éte pour les arts la mort de limmortel sculpteur Rauch. Rauch, who died in 1857, was above eighty, and seemed, until shortly before his death, destined to many years of health. When Humboldt kept his eighty-seventh birthday, the 14th September, 1856, with his niece, the admirable Mad. de Bulow, at Tegel, the favorite residence of her father, and of his brother William, he desired to have only one other person of the party, and that was Rauch, undoubtedly then the first of living sculptors. (Note by Mr. Ticknor.) L'universalite deseconnaissances zoologiques dans les classes inferieures de organization, rapprochait Jean Muller de Cuvier, ayant une grande preeminence dans la finesse du travail anatomique et physiologique. II a exe