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They were not absolute proprietors of the soil, but had certain valuable privileges, coupled with prescribed duties, such as building mills, etc. David Kertk, or Kirk, a Huguenot refugee, received a royal commission from King Charles I. to seize the French forts in Acadia (q. v.), and on the river St. Lawrence. With a dozen shimmer he entered the St. Lawrence, burned the hamlet of Tadousac, at the mouth of the Saguenay, and sent a summons for the surrender of Quebec. It was refused, and Kirk resolved to starve out the garrison. He cruised in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and captured the transports conveying winter provisions for Quebec. The sufferings there were intense, but they endured them until August the next year, when, English ships-of-war, under a brother of Admiral Kirk, appearing before Quebec, instead of the expected supply-ships, the place was surrendered, and the inhabitants, not more than 100 in all, were saved from starvation. By a treaty, Canada was restored to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Battle of Murfreesboro, or battle of Stone River, (search)
troops, under Hardee, on his left in the dim morning twilight, and four brigades under Cleburne charged furiously upon McCook's extreme right before Van Cleve had moved. The divisions of Cheatham and McCown struck near the centre, and at both points National skirmishers were driven back upon their lines. Towards these lines the Confederates pressed in the face of a terrible tempest of missiles—losing heavily, but never faltering—and fell with crushing force on the brigades of Willich and Kirk, pressing them back in confusion and capturing two batteries. With equal vigor the Confederates fell upon McCook's left, composed of the divisions of Sheridan and Davis, striking them in the flank. After a very severe struggle these divisions gave way and fell back in good order to the Nashville pike, losing a battery. Every brigade commander in Sheridan's division had been killed or wounded. It was now eleven o'clock. The National right wing, comprising fully one-third of Rosecrans's a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
sassination of President Garfield; convicted, Feb. 26; hanged......June 30, 1882 Star Route trials......1882 John Cockrill, managing editor of the St. Louis Post-despatch, for fatally shooting Colonel Slayback; acquitted......Oct. 13, 1882 Debris suit (California), decided against hydraulic miners, Judge Sawyer, of the United States court, San Francisco, Cal., granting a perpetual injunction......Jan. 7, 1884 William Berner, convicted at Cincinnati of manslaughter in killing William H. Kirk......March 28, 1884 [Berner was a confessed murderer; the verdict of manslaughter, when twenty untried murderers were in the city jail, led to a six days riot, during which the courthouse and other buildings were set on fire, forty-five persons were killed, and 138 injured.] Brig.-Gen. D. G. Swaim, judge-advocategeneral of the army, tried by court-martial for attempt to defraud a banking firm in Washington, and failing to report an army officer who had duplicated his pay account;
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
for relief of flood sufferers in the Ohio Valley......Feb. 12 and 15, Funeral services in New York, at the Church of the Holy Trinity, for victims of the Jeannette Arctic expedition (brought to New York)......Feb. 22, 1884 President Arthur, by special message to Congress, asks appropriation to reconstruct the navy......March 26, 1884 Three days of mob rule in Cincinnati, arising from a verdict of manslaughter against William Berner for complicity in the murder of his employer, W. H. Kirk......March 28-30, 1884 Government offers $25,000 for the discovery and rescue, or ascertaining the fate, of the Greely Arctic expedition, by act of......April 17, 1884 Steamer Thetis leaves Brooklyn navyyard for relief of Greely. May 1, 1884 Morrison tariff bill rejected in House of Representatives......May 6, 1884 Failure of the Marine Bank and firm of Grant & Ward in New York City......May 6-7, 1884 Statue of Chief-Justice John Marshall unveiled at Washington, D. C.......