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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Force, Manning Ferguson (search)
Force, Manning Ferguson
Author; born in Washington, D. C., Dec. 17, 1824; graduated at Harvard in 1845; admitted to the bar, Cincinnati, 1850; appointed major of the 20th Ohio Regiment in 1861; took part in the battles at Fort Donelson and Shiloh, and in the siege at Vicksburg.
He was with Sherman in the Atlanta campaign and was mustered out of service as brevet major-general of volunteers.
In 1889 he became commandant of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home.
Among his publications are From Fort Henry to Corinth; The Mound builders; Prehistoric man; The Vicksburg campaign; Marching across Carolina, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), French refugees in America . (search)
French refugees in America.
The colony of Huguenots planted in America by Coligni disappeared, but the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (q. v.) in 1685 caused another and larger emigration to America.
The refugees in England had been kindly assisted there, and after the accession of William and Mary Parliament voted $75,000 to be distributed among persons of quality and all such as, through age or infirmity, were unable to support themselves.
The King sent a large body of them to Virginia, and lands were allotted them on the James River; others purchased lands of the proprietaries of Carolina, and settled on the Santee River; while others—merchants and artisans—settled in Charleston.
These Huguenots were a valuable acquisition to the colonies.
In the South they planted vineyards and made wine.
A large number of them settled in the province of New York, chiefly in Westchester and Ulster counties, and in the city of New Y
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greene , Nathanael 1742 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hayne , Robert young -1839 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huguenots. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lafayette , Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier , Marquis de 1757 - (search)
Lawson, John 1712-
Historian; born in Scotland; came to America with the appointment of surveyor-general for North Carolina.
He was the author of A New voyage to Carolina, containing the exact description and natural history of that country; and a Journal of a thousand miles travelled through several Nations of Indians, etc. He was killed by the Indians on Neuse River, N. C., in 1712.
Mississippi River.
Indian name Miche-sepe, meaning Great water, or Father of waters ; was first discovered by Europeans with De Soto, in June, 1541, not far from the site of Helena, Ark., it is supposed.
De Soto died on its banks.
A London physician named Coxe purchased the old patent for Carolina granted to Sir Robert Heath (see State of North Carolina) in 1630, and put forward pretensions to the mouth of the Mississippi, which two armed English vessels were sent to explore.
Bienville, exploring the Mississippi at a point some 50 miles from its mouth, unexpectedly encountered one of Coxe's vessels coming up. Assured that this was not the Mississippi, but a dependency of Canada, already occupied by the French, the English commander turned about and left the river; and that point has ever since been known as the English Turn.
In 1673 Joliet and Marquette descended the river to a point within three days journey of its mouth.
Father Hennepin explored it from the mouth of the Il
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Negro soldiers. (search)