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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), China. (search)
and the Chinese driven out with great loss. The casualties of the allies were 875, of whom 215 were Americans. The temporary success of the Chinese at Tientsin, the siege of the legations in Peking, and the murder, June 12, of the Japanese chancellor of legation, and, June 20, of Baron von Ketteler, the German minister, seemed to inspire them with new fury, and the Boxer craze spread with fearful rapidity over all the northern districts, while in the south much uneasiness was shown. On July 15, a Chinese force invaded Russia, and the latter government immediately declared the Amur district in a state of war. July 23, President McKinley, in answer to the request of the Chinese Emperor for the good offices of the United States in bringing about peace, demanded that the imperial government should first make known to the world whether the representatives of the foreign powers in Peking were alive; and that it co-operate with the allied army gathering for their relief. The fate of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
Amendment to the national Constitution. For a violation of the reconstruction act (q. v.), in not permitting colored men, legally elected, to occupy seats in the legislature, Georgia representatives were not permitted to take seats in Congress. The Supreme Court of the State declared that negroes were entitled to hold office. A new election was held, both houses of the State legislature were duly organized, Jan. 31, 1869, all the requirements of Congress were acceded to, and, by act of July 15, Georgia was readmitted into the Union. Its representatives took their seats in December, 1869. Since the close of the war Georgia has had a most remarkable material development, caused in large part by the introduction of cotton manufacturing. Its mills are among the largest in the world, and their output is steadily increasing. The State was the first to feel the life of the New South. The Cotton Expostition in 1881 and the Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895, both in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peace party. (search)
conscience; and pronounced the war for the coercion of sovereign States to be unholy and unjust. From that time until the close of the war, and even afterwards, Mr. Vallandigham used all his powers in giving aid and comfort to the Confederates. He and the peace party opposed every measure of the administration for ending the war. They were doubtless sincere; but the friends of the republic regarded them as mistaken and mischievous. Benjamin Wood, Representative from New York, proposed (July 15) that Congress should take measures for assembling a border-State convention to devise means for securing peace. Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, introduced (July 18) an addition to a bill for the reorganization of the army, which declared that no part of the army or navy should be employed in subjecting or holding as a conquered province any sovereign State now or lately one of the United States. To this John C. Breckinridge added, or to abolish slavery therein. From the beginning of the Civil
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State government. (search)
tile invasions and cruel depredations of their enemies. This was the first act of Congress in favor of absolute independence of Great Britain. The recommendation was generally followed, but not without opposition. New Hampshire had prepared a temporary State government in January, 1776. The royal charters of Rhode Island and Connecticut were considered sufficient for independent local self-government. New Jersey adopted a State constitution July 2, 1776; Virginia, July 5; Pennsylvania, July 15; Maryland, Aug. 14; Delaware, Sept. 20; North Carolina, Dec. 18: Georgia, Feb. 5, 1777; New York, April 20; South Carolina, March 19, 1778; and Massachusetts, March 2, 1780. For all practical purposes—even to the extent of alterations of the constitutions, except in a few States where different provisions were made—the supreme power was vested in the respective legislatures, which, excepting Pennsylvania and Georgia, consisted of two branches. The more numerous branch retained the name
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
prisoner under ten years of age, and £ 40 for every one older, or for his scalp......September-October, 1703 Colonel Church leads an expedition against the enemy in the east, visits Penobscot Bay, and proceeds as far as the Bay of Fundy. He returns, having destroyed all the settlements in the vicinity of Port Royal, and taken 106 prisoners and a large amount of plunder with the loss of only six men......1704 Francis Nicholson, late lieutenant-governor of Virginia, arrives at Boston, July 15, with his fleet. He sails Sept. 18, reaches Port Royal Sept. 24, lands his forces, and opens three batteries Oct. 1, and Subercase, the governor, capitulates the next day, and Nicholson names the place Annapolis Royal......Oct. 2, 17 10 By treaty of Utrecht, all Nova Scotia, Annapolis Royal, and all other things in these parts belonging to France are ceded to Great Britain......March 30, 1713 Berwick incorporated out of the northern settlements of Kittery......June 9, 1713 Fort Ge