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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Audubon , John James 1780 -1851 (search)
Audubon, John James, 1780-1851
Ornithologist; born in New Orleans, May 4, 1780; was the son of a French admiral.
Educated at Paris, he acquired much skill as an artist
John James Audubon. under the instruction of the celebrated David.
At the age of seventeen years he began to make a collection of drawings of the birds of America, and became a most devoted student of the feathered tribes of our country.
So early as 1810 he went down the Ohio River with his wife and child in an open boat.
to a congenial spot for a forest home.
He visited almost every region of the United States.
In some of his Western excursions, Wilson, the ornithologist, was his companion.
In 1826 he went to Europe to secure subscriptions to his great work, The birds of America.
It was issued in numbers, each containing five plates, the subjects drawn and colored the size and tints of life.
It was completed in 4 volumes, in 1838.
Of the 170 subscribers to the work, at $1,000 each, nearly one-half came
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blennerhassett , Harman 1764 - (search)
Brant, Joseph,
(Thay-en-da-ne-gen). Mohawk chief; born on the banks of the Ohio River in 1742.
In 1761 Sir William Johnson sent him to Dr. Wheelock's school at Hanover.
N. H., where he translated portions of the New Testament into the Mohawk language.
Brant engaged in the war against Pontiae in 1763, and at
Joseph Brant. the beginning of the war for independence was secretary to Guy Johnson, the Indian Superintendent.
In the spring of 1776 he was in England; and to the ministry he expressed his willingness, and that of his people, to join in the chastisement of the rebellious colonists.
It was an unfavorable time for him to make such an
The Brant mausoleum. offer with an expectation of securing very favorable arrangements for his people, for the minstry were elated with the news of the disasters to the rebels at Quebee.
Besides, they had completed the bargain for a host of German mercenaries, a part of whom were then on their way to America to crush the rebellion.
They
Cairo, occupation of
The city of Cairo, Ill. (population, 1900, 12,566), is situated near the extremity of a boatshaped peninsula, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, 175 miles below St. Louis.
It is a point of great importance as the key to a vast extent of navigable waters, and to it National troops were sent at an early period in the Civil War. Both the national government and Governor Yates, of Illinois, had been apprised of the intention of the Confederates to secure that position, hoping thereby to control the navigation of the Mississippi to St. Louis, and of the Ohio to Cincinnati and beyond.
They also hoped that the absolute control of the Mississippi below would cause the Northwestern States to join hands with the Confederates rather than lose these great trade advantages.
The scheme was foiled.
Governor Yates, under the direction of the Secretary of War, sent Illinois troops at an early day to take possession of and occupy Cairo.
By the middle of
Chickasaw Indians,
A tribe of the Creek confederacy that formerly inhabited the country along the Mississippi from the borders of the Choctaw domain to the Ohio River, and eastward beyond the Tennessee to the lands of the Cherokees
Battle of Chickasaw Bayou. and Shawnees.
They were warlike, and were the early friends of the English and the inveterate foes of the French, who twice (1736 and 1740) invaded their country under Bienville and De Noailles.
The Chickasaws said they came from west of the Mississippi, under the guardianship of a great dog, with a pole for a guide.
At night they stuck the pole in the ground, and went the way it leaned every morning.
Their dog was drowned in crossing the Mississippi, and after a while their pole, in the interior of Alabama, remained upright, and there they settled.
De Soto passed a winter among them (1540-41), when they numbered 10,000 warriors.
These were reduced to 450 when the French seated themselves in Louisiana.
Wars with the
Cincinnati, Oh., city
Commercial metropolis of the valley of the Ohio, and county seat of Hamilton county, Ohio; on the Ohio River; connected by railroads and steamboats with all important parts of the country.
Under the census of 1900 it was the tenth city in the United States in point of population.
The city is noted for the extent and variety of its manufactures and for its great pork-packing interests.
In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, the imports of merchandise amounted in va