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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arctic exploration. (search)
d to round the north of Europe and Asia in 1607-08, but failed, and, pushing for the lower latitudes of the American coast, discovered the river that bears his name. While on an expedition to discover a northwest passage, he found Hudson Bay, and perished (1610) on its bosom. In 1616 Baffin explored the bay called by his name, and entered the mouth of Lancaster Sound. After that, for fifty years, no navigator went so far north in that direction. In 1720 the Hudson Bay Company sent Captains Knight and Barlow to search for a northwest passage to India. They sailed with a ship and sloop, and were never heard of afterwards. In 1741 Vitus Bering discovered the strait that bears his name, having set sail from a port in Kamtchatka. In that region Bering perished. Russian navigators tried in vain to solve the problem. Between 1769 and 1772 Samuel Hearne made three overland journeys in America to the Arctic Ocean. The British government having, in 1743, offered $100,000 to the crew
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ericsson, John, 1803-1889 (search)
city of New York or its immediate vicinity till his death. In 1841 he was engaged in the construction of the United States ship-ofwar Princeton, to which he applied his propeller. She was the first steamship John Ericsson. ever built with the propelling machinery under the water-line and out of reach of shot. In 1840 he received the gold medal of the Mechanics' Institute of New York for the best model of a steam fire-engine, and constructed the first one seen in the United States. King Oscar of Sweden made him Knight of the Order of Vasa in 1852. He accomplished many things in mechanical science after he settled in New York. He invented and constructed the Monitor, which fought the Merrimac (also known as the Virginia), and revolutionized the entire science of naval warfare. At the time of his death he was perfecting an engine to be run by solar rays. He died in New York City, March 8, 1889, and his remains were sent to his native land in the United States cruiser Baltimore.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Rhode Island, (search)
1763 Samuel WardMay 1765 Stephen HopkinsMay 1767 Josias LyndonMay 1768 Joseph WantonMay 1769 Nicholas Cooke Nov., 1775 William GreeneMay, 1778 John Collins May 1786 Arthur FennerMay 1790 James FennerMay 1807 William JonesMay 1811 Nehemiah R. KnightMay 1817 William C. GibbsMay 1821 James FennerMay 1824 Lemuel H. ArnoldMay 1831 John Brown FrancisMay 1833 William SpragueMay 1838 Samuel Ward KingMay 1840 Governors under the State Constitution. James Fenner 1843 Charles Jackso 10th to 12th 1807 to 1811 Francis Malbone 11th 1809 Christopher G. Champlain 11th to 12th 1810 to 1811 William Hunter 12th to 17th 1811 to 1821 Jeremiah B. Howell 12th to 15th 1811 to 1817 James Burrell, Jr. 15th to 16th 1817 to 1820 Nehemiah R. Knight 16th to 27th 1820 to 1841 James D'Wolf 17th to 20th 1821 to 1825 Asher Robbins20th to 26th 1825 1839 Nathan F. Dixon26th to 27th 1839 to 1842 William Sprague 27th to 28th 1842 to 1844 James F. Simmons 27th to 30th 1841 to 1847 John B.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spain, War with (search)
int of land on the northern coast where the first Spanish colony was planted by Columbus. About three centuries ago a disaster had resulted to a British expedition against the Spaniards, worthy of mention at the present time. The expedition had originally been directed against the very point of Porto Rico for which we had set sail. It was under the command of two of England's most famous naval heroes. The circumstance is related at some length by the historian Hume, but more briefly by Knight, who says: Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins sailed with six of the Queen's ships, and twenty others fitted out at private charge, having on board a considerable land force commanded by Sir Thomas Baskerville. They made an assault on Porto Rico, but they were repulsed. A century ago, after the Franco-Spanish alliance against England, the British prepared to weaken Spain through attacks on her colonies. A squadron was assembled in the West Indies under the command of Sir Ralph Aberc