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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Corwin, Thomas 1794-1865 (search)
ve up your territory—you are unworthy to possess it —I have got one-half already—all I ask you is to give up the other! England might as well, in the circumstances I have described, have come and demanded of us, Give up the Atlantic slope—give up this trifling territory from the Alleghany Mountains to the sea; it is only from Maine to St. Mary's—only about onethird your republic, and the least interesting portion of it. What would be the response? They would say, We must give this up to John Bull. Why? He wants room. The Senator from Michigan says he must have this. Why, my worthy Christian brother, on what principle of justice? I want room! Sir, look at this pretence of want of room. With 20,000,000 people you have about 1,000,000,000 acres of land, inviting settlement by every conceivable argument-bringing them down to a quarter of a dollar an acre, and allowing every man to squat where he pleases. But the Senator from Michigan says we will be 200,000,000 in a few ye
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crazy horse, (search)
Crazy horse, Chief of the Ogallalla Sioux and brother-in-law of Red Cloud; born about 1842. He was a leader of a large band of hostile Indians that for several years made much trouble for the national government in the Northwest Territories. The murder of a brother in 1865 induced him to leave Fort Laramie, Wyo., and gather a force to war upon the whites. In 1876, he united this force with that of Sitting Bull, and these two chiefs surprised the command under General Custer on the Little Big Horn River, June 25. 1876, and massacred almost every member of it. As soon as the fate of Custer and his comrades became known General Terry started in pursuit of the Indians, and followed then into the Black Hills region, but the wily leader escaped capture. In the spring of 1877 a larger expedition was organized under command of General Crook, which surprised Crazy Horse's force at the Red Cloud Agency, and forced him to surrender with about 900 of his men.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jonathan, brother (search)
Jonathan, brother The name popularly applied to the United States, as John Bull is to Great Britain; originated in Washington's humorous allusion to Jonathan Trumbull (q. v.), governor of Connecticut, the only colonial governor who favored independence.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nez Perce Indians, (search)
th General Howard on a hot trail. On Sept. 13 General Sturgis had a fight with them on the Yellowstone below the mouth of Clark's Fork, capturing hundreds of horses and killing a number of the Indians. Then the Indians crossed the Yellowstone, passed north through the Judith Mountains, and reached the Missouri River near Cow Island on Sept. 22, and the next day they crossed the Missouri and proceeded north to the British possessions, with a view to join the renegade Sioux, with whom Sitting Bull was hiding. General Howard's troops were fearfully worn down by the long pursuit, but steadily followed the fleeing Nez Perces. Howard had meanwhile sent word to Colonel Miles at Tongue River of the movements of the Indians, and that officer started with fresh forces to head off the band. On Sept. 30, he came on them near the mouth of Eagle Creek, had a fight with them, and finally captured the entire band, numbering between 400 and 500 men, women, and children. As the fight was closing G
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Perry, Oliver Hazard 1785-1819 (search)
p American Perry! Most pleasant American Perry! We need only bear down, knock and call, And we'll have the American Perry. Perry's monument, Newport, R. I. Among the caricatures of the day was one by Charles, of Philadelphia, representing John Bull, in the person of the King, seated, with his hand pressed upon his stomach, indicating pain, which the fresh juice of the pear, called perry, will produce. Queen Charlotte, the King's wife (a fair likeness of whom is given), enters with a bottle labelled Perry, out of which the cork has flown, and in the foam are seen the names of the vessels composing the American squadron. She says, Johnny, won't you take some more perry? John Bull replies, while writhing in pain produced by perry, Oh! Perry! Curse that Perry! One disaster after another—I have not half recovered of the bloody nose I got at the boxingmatch! This last expression refers to the capture of the Boxer by the American schooner Enterprise. This caricature is entitled
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Phillips, Wendell 1811-1884 (search)
th the frowning cannon of the English fleet ready to be thrust out of the port-holes against us. But I can answer England with a better answer than William H. Seward can write. I can answer her with a more statesmanlike paper than Simon Cameron can indite. I would answer her with the stars and stripes floating over Charleston and New Orleans, and the itinerant cabinet of Richmond packing up archives and wearing apparel to ride back to Montgomery. There is one thing and only one, which John Bull respects, and that is success. It is not for us to give counsel to the government on points of diplomatic propriety, but I suppose we may express our opinions, and my opinion is, that, if I were the President of these thirty-four States, while I was, I should want Mason and Slidell to stay with me. I say, then, first, as a matter of justice to the slave, we owe it to him; the day of his deliverance has come. The long promise of seventy years is to be fulfilled. The South draws back from
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rappahannock Station, battle of. (search)
Rappahannock Station, battle of. In the pursuit of Lee, in his retreat towards Richmond from the vicinity of Bull Run, in October, 1863, the 6th Corps, under General Sedgwick, found the Confederates strongly intrenched in works cast up by the Nationals on the north side of the Rappahannock, at Rappahannock Station. They were about 2,000 in number. Sedgwick advanced (Nov. 7, 1863) upon each flank of the works, with the division of Gen. D. A. Russell marching upon the centre. The first brigade, under Col. P. C. Ellmaker, was in the van of Russell's division, and just before sunset, in two columns, stormed the works with fixed bayonets. The van of the stormers rushed through a thick tempest of canister-shot and bullets, followed by the remainder of the brigade, and after a struggle of a few moments the strongest redoubt was carried. In that charge the slaughter of the Unionists was fearful. At the same time two regiments of Upton's brigade charged the rifle-pits, drove the Co
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trumbull, Jonathan 1710-1785 (search)
y, the commander-in-chief said, We must consult brother Jonathan on the subject. He did so, and the governor was successful in supplying many of the wants of the army. When the army was afterwards spread over the country and difficulties arose, it was a common saying among the officers, as a by-word, We must consult brother Jonathan. The origin of these words were soon lost sight Governor Trumbull's War-office. of, and Brother Jonathan became the title of our nationality, like that of John Bull of England. He died in Lebanon, Conn., Aug. 17, 1785. Legislator; born in Lebanon, Conn., March 26, 1740; son of Governor Trumbull; graduated at Harvard College in 1759. When the Revolutionary War broke out, he was an active member of the Connecticut Assembly, and its speaker. From 1775 to 1778 he was paymaster of the Northern army; and in 1780 he was secretary and first aide to Washington, remaining in the military family of the commander-in-chief until the close of the war. He
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
e-President, William A. Wheeler, of New York, unanimously elected on first ballot......June 16, 1876 B. H. Bristow, Secretary of the Treasury, resigns......June 20, 1876 Massacre of Gen. George A. Custer and 276 men, by Indians under Sitting Bull, near the Little Big Horn River, Montana......June 25, 1876 President suggests public religious services on July 4, 1876, by proclamation......June 26, 1876 Democratic National Convention at St. Louis, Gen. John A. McClernand permanent presitter part of......October, 1890 Second session convenes......Dec. 1, 1890 President's message read......Dec. 1, 1890 David Kalakaua, King of the Sandwich Islands, lands at San Francisco, Cal.......Dec. 4, 1890 Tatonka Otanka, Sitting Bull, born in Dakota, 1837, who posed as leading apostle in the ghost dances, is arrested, and is killed during an attempt of Indians to rescue him, near Grand River, about 40 miles from Standing Rock agency, N. D.......Dec. 15, 1890 Maj.-Gen. Alfre
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Connecticut, (search)
determined to be the Sound, Connecticut losing her possessions on Long Island......Nov. 30, 1664 United colony elects John Winthrop governor......1665 Lyme made a town......May, 1667 Haddam made a town......October, 1668 Major Andros, the new governor of New York, claims under the Duke of York all land west of the Connecticut River......1675 Major Andros appears before the fort at Saybrook with an armed force and demands its surrender......July 11, 1675 [It is refused by Captain Bull, and the patent and commission forbidden to be read.] War with Philip, sachem of the Wampanoags......1675 Connecticut furnishes 315 men in the fight at Narraganset fort......Dec. 19, 1675 Death of Gov. John Winthrop......April 5, 1676 Boundary between Connecticut and New York of 1664 superseded by that of......1683 Sir Edmund Andros, the royal governor, comes to Hartford and demands the charter in the name of King James II......Oct. 31, 1687 [After a long discussion in
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