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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morris, Robert 1734-1806 (search)
, and at the same time was largely engaged in managing the financial affairs of the country, making use of his personal credit to support the public credit. With other citizens he established a bank in Philadelphia in 1780, by which means the army was largely sustained. In 1781 he supplied almost everything to carry on the campaign against Cornwallis. When Washington received a letter from Count de Grasse saying that he could not yet leave the West Indies, Morris was at headquarters at Dobb's Ferry with Richard Peters, secretary of the board of war. The commander-inchief was sorely disappointed, for he saw little chance of success against the British at New York without the aid of a French fleet. He instantly conceived the campaign against Cornwallis. Turning to Peters, he said, What can you do for me? With money, everything; without it, nothing, replied the secretary, at the same time turning an anxious look towards Morris, who comprehended the expression. Let me know the su
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York City (search)
tly preparing to crush his weak army. Their ships occupied the bay and both rivers, and there were swarms of loyalists in New York and in Westchester county. At a council of war, Sept. 12, 1776, it was resolved to send the military stores to Dobbs Ferry, on the Hudson, and to retreat to and fortify Harlem Heights, on the northern part of Manhattan Island. The sick were taken over to New Jersey. The main body of the army, accompanied by a host of Whigs, left the city (Sept. 14) and moved towth, that the accident was the work of Whig conspirators. About 500 buildings (almost a third part of the city) were laid in ashes. Evacuation of the City. In 1783 Washington, Governor Clinton, and Sir Guy Carleton held a conference at Dobbs Ferry, and made arrangements for the British troops to evacuate the city on Nov. 25. On that morning the American troops under General Knox, who had come down from West Point and encamped at Harlem, marched to the Bowery Lane, and halted at the pre
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
eceived intelligence at the close of May, 1781, that the Count de Grasse might be expected on the coast of the United States with a powerful French fleet in July or August. This news caused the French forces, which had lain idle at Newport many months, to move immediately for the Hudson River, to form a junction with the Continental army there under Washington. A part of them moved on June 10, and the remainder immediately afterwards. They formed a junction with the American army, near Dobb's Ferry, on the Hudson, July 6. The Americans were encamped on Valentine's Hill, in two lines, with the right wing resting on the Hudson River near the ferry. The French army was stationed on the hills at the left, in a single line, reaching from the Hudson to the Bronx River. There was a valley of considerable extent between the two armies. The American army had been encamped at Peekskill, and marched down to Valentine's Hill on the morning of July 2. In August, 1781, a French frigate, fr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
hant, and former mayor of New York, born 1827, dies at New York City......Nov. 2, 1900 Governor Roosevelt finishes his campaign tour in Oswego, N. Y., having travelled 21,209 miles in eight weeks, addressed audiences aggregating 3,000,000 persons in twenty-four States......Nov. 2, 1900 Republicans' great sound-money parade in New York......Nov. 3, 1900 Election of B. B. Odell, Republican, as governor of New York......Nov. 6, 1900 Henry Villard, financier, born 1835, dies at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.......Nov. 11, 1900 Oswald Ottendorfer, journalist, born 1826, dies at New York City......Dec. 16, 1900 Governor Roosevelt removes District Attorney Asa Bird Gardiner, of New York, on charges, and appoints Eugene A. Philbin as his successor......Dec. 21, 1900 Governor Odell transmits to the legislature the report of the New York City charter revision with a message urging municipal economy......Jan. 21, 1901 Sing Sing prison is condemned by the State board of health......Jan
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Villard, Henry 1835- (search)
for the Cincinnati Commercial. During the Civil War he was a Washington correspondent for Western and Eastern papers. In 1873 he purchased the Oregon and California Railroad and the Oregon steamship companies for German stockholders, and two years later became receiver, with C. S. Greeley, of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. He then organized the Oregon and Transcontinental Company, which gained control of the Northern Pacific and of the Oregon Railway and Pacific companies. He was president of the Northern Pacific in 1881-84, and chairman of the board of directors of the same company in 1889-93. He bought the Edison Lamp Company, of Newark, N. J., and the Edison Machine Works, of Schenectady, N. Y., in 1890, and from these formed the Edison General Electric Company, of which he was president for two years. He was the author of The Pike's Peak gold regions, and was a liberal promoter of educational, religious, and charitable institutions. He died in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Nov. 11, 1900.
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
of the Fifty-fourth Regiment, March 11, 1864, and subsequently was commissioned first lieutenant, April 28, 1865; and was discharged with the regiment, August 20, 1865, when the regiment was mustered out of service, at the end of the war. This officer belonged in Elmira, N. Y. Among the many gentlemen living in other States, who entertained for Governor Andrew a high respect, was James A. Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton, the friend and confidant of Washington, who was living at Dobbs' Ferry, N. Y. On the 16th of December, Governor Andrew wrote to this gentleman,— I received your most valued letter of the 10th inst. yesterday, and read it carefully last evening, and am glad to have the opportunity, not only of hearing from you, but of renewing my grateful acknowledgments of your zealous patriotism, and your always suggestive and instructive counsels. I heartily concur with your estimate of the importance of the promptest and most determined action, in the work of constitu
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 18: (search)
of intelligence. On the same day, Andre, disguising his name, wrote to Sheldon from Chap. XVIII.} 1780. New York by order of Clinton: A flag will be sent to Dobbs Ferry on Monday next, the eleventh, at twelve o'clock. Let me entreat you, sir, to favor a matter which is of so private a nature that the public on neither side can uce, and lull the suspicions of the American officer by statements the most false. The letter of Andre being forwarded to Arnold, he determined to go as far as Dobbs Ferry and meet the flag. As he was approaching the vessel in which Andre came up the river, the British guard-boats whose officers were not in the secret fired upon sh the dangers to which the service exposed him, the commanderin-chief, before his departure, cautioned him not to change his dress, and not to take papers. At Dobbs Ferry, he embarked on the river, and, as the tide was favorable, reached the Vulture at about an hour after sunset, and declared to its captain that he was ready to a