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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
..May, 1871 Owing to murder and outrage in the upper country, by the Ku-klux, President Grant, by proclamation, Oct. 12, suspends the hebeas corpus in the counties of Spartansburg, York, Union, Chester, Laurens, Newberry, Fairfield, Lancaster, and Chesterfield, and commands secret organizations to disband within five days. Many troops are stationed in the State and about 600 arrests made......1871 Act establishing the validity of bonds of the State, issued between Aug. 26, 1868, and March 26, 1869......1872 Claflin University and South Carolina Agricultural College and Mechanical Institute, organized at Orangeburg in 1869, is reopened and chartered......1872 Tax-payers' convention at Columbia by resolution asking for amendments, simplifying and abridging the tax laws......Feb. 17, 1874 Governor Moses is indicted personally for official acts; indictment is quashed on the ground that he should have been impeached......June 8, 1874 Convention of independent Republicans
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, (search)
y-four soldiers under Maj. G. O. Haller, sent from Fort Dalles, Oct. 3, for the Yakima country......Oct. 6, 1855 Three families massacred by Indians in White River Valley......Oct. 28, 1855 Indians under Leschi, Owhi, and Tecumseh, attacking Seattle, dispersed by shells from the sloop-of-war Decatur......Jan. 26, 1856 Indians defeated in an attack on troops at White River......March 8, 1856 Yakimas and Klikitats sweep down upon the Cascades, massacre the family of B. W. Brown, March 26, and besiege the garrison until relieved by troops under Colonel Wright......March 28, 1856 Leschi, arrested November, 1856, is three times tried for murder and condemned, and is finally hanged......Feb. 19, 1858 Col. George Wright subdues the Coeur d'alenes and Spokanes, and executes treaties of peace at the mission on a branch of the Coeur d'alenes......Sept. 17-23, 1858 Light-house on Cape Shoalwater, first illuminated......Oct. 1, 1858 First vessel direct from China to enter
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vera Cruz, capture of (search)
) were hurled upon the city. The engineering works for the siege had been skilfully prepared by Gen. Joseph G. Totten (q. v.). The entire siege continued fifteen days, during which time the Americans fired 3.000 ten-inch shells, 200 howitzershells. 1,000 Paixham shot, and 2,500 Vera Cruz during the Mexican War. round-shot, the whole weight of metal being about 500,000 pounds. The shells did terrible damage within the city, and many women and children became victims. On the morning of March 26 the commander of the post made overtures for surrender, and on the 29th that event took place, when about 5,000 Mexicans marched out to a plain a mile from the city, where they laid down their arms, gave up their flags, and retired to the interior on parole. The city and fortress of San Juan de Ulloa, with 500 pieces of artillery and a large quantity of munitions of war passed into the possession of the Americans. The latter, during the whole siege, had lost only eighty men killed and wou
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