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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801 (search)
Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801 Military officer; born in Norwich, Conn., Jan. 14, 1741. As a boy he was bold, mischievous, and quarrelsome. Apprenticed to an apothecary, he ran away, enlisted as a soldier, but deserted. For four years (1763-67) he was a bookseller and druggist in New Haven, Conn., and was afterwards master and supercargo of a vessel trading to the West Birthplace of Benedict Arnold. Indies. Immediately after the affair at Lexington, he raised a company of volunteers and marched to Cambridge. There he proposed to the Massachusetts Committee of Safety an expedition against Fort Ticonderoga, and was commissioned a colonel. Finding a small force, under Colonels Easton, Brown, and Allen, on the same errand when he reached western Massachusetts, he joined them without command. Returning to Cambridge, he was placed at the head of an expedition for the capture of Quebec. He left Cambridge with a little more than 1,000 men, composed of New England musketeers and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil service, United States colonial. (search)
in Holland extensive provision for his instruction. At the University of Leyden there are professors of colonial and Mohammedan law, the Japanese and Chinese languages, of ethnography, and lecturers on the Sunda languages, on Malayan, Persian, and Turkish, on Mohammedan civilization, and religious history. Designed especially for training men for the colonial service is the Indisches Institut at Delft, where there are courses in the administrative and constitutional law of the Netherlands, Indies, the Malayan and Sunda languages, Japanese, ethnology, geography, religious legislation and customary law, the law and institutions of the Dutch Indies, and the Bata, Bali, and Madura languages. This systematic training has borne abundant fruit in the indefatigable activity of the Dutch officials, travellers, and scientific men in the collection of material and the diffusion of knowledge relating to every aspect of their colonial domain, to an extent of which the average American can have n
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de 1510-1542 (search)
vs any sooner. I would haue sent your lordshippe with this dispatch many musters of things which are in this countrey: but the way is so long and rough, that it is hard for me to doe so; neuerthelesse I send you twelve small mantles, such as the people of the countrey are woont to weare, and a certain garment also, which seemeth vnto me to bee well made: I kept the same, because it seemed to mee to bee excellent well wrought, because I beleeue that no man euer saw any needle worke in these Indies, except it were since the Spaniards inhabited the same. I send your Lordshippe also two clothes painted with the beasts of this country, although as I haue sayde, the picture bee very rudely done, because the painter spent but one day in drawing of the same. I haue seene other pictures on the walles of the houses of this citie with farre better proportion, and better made. I send your honour one Oxe-hide, certaine Turqueses, and two earerings of the same, and fifteene combes of the India
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Raynal, Guillaume Thomas Francois 1713-1793 (search)
Raynal, Guillaume Thomas Francois 1713-1793 Usually called Abbe, historian; born in St. Geniez, France, April 12, 1713. His philosophic and political history of the two Indies appeared in Paris in 1770. It was an indictment of royalty, while it praised the people of the United States of America as models of heroism such as antiquity boasted of, and spoke of New England in particular as a land that knew how to be happy without kings and without priests. He spoke of philosophy as wishing to see all peoples happy, and said, If the love of justice had decided the Court of Versailles to the alliance of a monarchy with a people defending its liberty, the first article of its treaty with the United States should have been that all oppressed peoples have the right to rise against their oppressors. Raynal was indicted, and fled through Brussels to Holland, leaving his books to be burned by the common hangman. He subsequently came to the United States. His book found a welcome in ma
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Submarine cables. (search)
France54 5,035 Germany58 2,225 Great Britain and Ireland135 1,989 Greece46 55 Holland24 62 Italy 39 1,061 Norway325 324 Portugal4115 Russia 9231 Spain15 1,744 Sweden14 96 Switzerland2 10 Turkey23 344 Argentine Republic and Brazil49 119 Australia and New Zealand31 345 Bahama Islands1 213 British America1 200 British India (Indo-European Telegraph Department）111 1,919 China2 113 Cochin China and Tonquin2 774 Japan70 1,508 Macao1 2 Nouvelle Caledonie1 1 Netherlands Indies7 891 Senegal, Africa—Dakar to Goree Island1 3 —————— Total1,141 19,883 On Sept. 23, 1901, the Commercial Pacific Company was incorporated in Albany, N. Y., for the purpose of laying a submarine cable from San Francisco to Manila, the line to touch Hawaii and other islands in the Pacific, which have been Types of cables used since 1858. acquired by the United States government. The entire length of the cable will be about 8,500 miles, the first part, from San Francisc