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The Daily Dispatch: February 23, 1865., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 1 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill) 1 1 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hewat, Alexander 1745-1829 (search)
Hewat, Alexander 1745-1829 Historian; born in Scotland about 1745; came to America before the Revolutionary War, but when that struggle became imminent he returned to England. He was the author of South Carolina and Charleston. He died in London, in 1829. Hewat, Alexander 1745-1829 Historian; born in Scotland about 1745; came to America before the Revolutionary War, but when that struggle became imminent he returned to England. He was the author of South Carolina and Charleston. He died in London, in 1829.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Howe, Richard, Earl 1725-1799 (search)
Howe, Richard, Earl 1725-1799 Naval officer; born in England, March 19, 1725; was educated at Westminster and Eton; and succeeded to the Irish viscounty and the family estate on the death of his brother, George Augustus Howe, killed near Ticonderoga in 1758. In 1739 he was a midshipman in Anson's fleet, and was made post-captain for gallantry in 1745. He entered Parliament in 1757, and in 1765 was made treasurer of the British navy. In October, 1770, he was promoted to Richard Howe. rearadmiral of the blue, and in 1776 was sent to command the British fleet on the American station, charged with a commission, jointly with his brother, William Howe, to make peace with or war upon the Americans. They failed to secure peace, and made war. After leaving the Delaware with his fleet, in 1778, he had an encounter off Rhode Island with a French fleet, under the Count d'estaing, when he disappeared from the American waters. In 1782 he was made admiral of the blue, and created an Engl
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hoyt, Albert Harrison 1826- (search)
Hoyt, Albert Harrison 1826- Author; born in Sandwich, N. H., Dec. 6, 1826; graduated at Wesleyan College in 1850, and became a lawyer; paymaster in the army in 1862-66; received the brevet of lieutenant-colonel in 1865; was editor of the New England Historical and Genealogical register in 1868-76. His publications include Necrology of the New England colleges; Capt. Francis Goelet's journal of his visit to Boston, Salem, etc., in 1745-50; Letters of Sir William Pepperrell, Bart.; History of the New England Historical and Genealogical register; Notes, Historical and bibliographical, on the laws of New Hampshire; The name Columbia, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Joncaire, or Jonquiere, Jacques Pierre De Taffanel, Marquis De La 1686-1752 (search)
Joncaire, or Jonquiere, Jacques Pierre De Taffanel, Marquis De La 1686-1752 Naval officer; born in La Jonquiere, France, in 1686; entered the navy in 1698, and in 1703 was adjutant in the French army. He was a brave and skilful officer, and was in many battles. He became captain in the navy in 1736, and accompanied D'Anville in his expedition against Louisburg in 1745. In 1747 he was appointed governor of Canada, but, being captured by the British, he did not arrive until 1749. He died in Quebec, May 17, 1752.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Le Moyne, 1656-1683 (search)
sist his brother Iberville in Hudson Bay, and brought over emigrants to Louisiana in a squadron to found a colony there. In 1718-19 he surveyed the coasts there, and took part in expeditions against the Spaniards at Pensacola and in Mobile Bay. In 1720 he commanded a ship-of-the-line, and died a rear-admiral of the royal navy. He was also governor of Rochefort at the time of his death, having been appointed in 1723. Antoine, Sieur de Chateaugay, was born in Montreal, July 7, 1683; died in Rochefort, France, March 21, 1747. He belonged to the royal army, and came with colonists to Louisiana in 1704, serving under Iberville there against the English. He was made chief commandant of Louisiana in 1717, and King's lieutenant in the colony and knight of St. Louis in 1718. He was in command of Pensacola in 1719; a prisoner of war for a while afterwards to the Spaniards; governor of Martinique; and, returning to France in 1744, became governor of Ile Royale, or Cape Breton, in 1745.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marbois, Francois de Barbe, Marquis de 1745-1837 (search)
Marbois, Francois de Barbe, Marquis de 1745-1837 Diplomatist; born in Metz, France, Jan. 31, 1745; was tutor to the children of Castries, the French minister of marine, through whose influence he obtained (1779) the appointment to the post of secretary of legation to the United States during the Revolution. By his learning and talents he became the principal agent in the most important operations of the embassy while Luzerne was minister. After the return of the latter Marbois remained as charge d'affaires, and resided in America until 1785, arranging all the French consulates. He was afterwards appointed Intendant of Santo Domingo, and returned to France in 1790, when he was sent as ambassador to the German Diet. Having offended the ruling party in the course of the fierce French Revolution, he was condemned to exile at Cayenne. On his return, Bonaparte, then First Consul, nominated him as the first councillor of state, and in 1801 he was made secretary of the treasury. He
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts, (search)
t being published in the name of his brother Benjamin, but the caution necessary to be used made contributors shy. They gradually ceased to write, and the paper, losing interest, finally perished for lack of support. Such was the fate of the first nominally free press in America. The colony was involved in war with its French neighbors in 1744, in consequence of a war between France and England. In that war Massachusetts contributed largely in men and means to the capture of Louisburg (1745), and in attempts to conquer Canada. She also bore her part in the French and Indian War; and in the opposition to the Stamp Act and other schemes of the British Parliament for taxing the English-American colonists, Massachusetts took a leading part. Recent acts of Parliament for taxing the Americans caused the Massachusetts The State-House, Boston, Mass. Assembly, in January, 1768, to send to the King a petition which combined, temperately, the spirit of liberty and of loyalty. In it
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maurepas, Jean Frederic Phelypeaux, Count de 1701-1781 (search)
Maurepas, Jean Frederic Phelypeaux, Count de 1701-1781 Statesman; born in Versailles, France, July 9, 1701; was minister of state in 1738, and one of the ablest statesmen France ever produced; but because of an epigram on the mistress of Louis XV.—Madame d'etoiles—whom the monarch had just created Marquise de Pompadour, he was removed from office in 1745. He was recalled in 1774, on the accession of Louis XVI., when he restored the exiled Parliament, and began a system of reform. He was instrumental in bringing about the treaty of alliance between France and the United States in 1778. He died in Versailles, Nov. 21, 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Moravians. (search)
n from Bethlehem, named Gottlob Buttner, joined Rauch in his work. He preached fervently, and many converts were the fruits of the mission of Rauch and Buttner. Count Zinzendorf and his daughter visited the mission in 1742. Here Buttner died in 1745, and over his grave the Moravians placed a handsome monument in 1859. In 1745 the mission was broken up. The Moravian Church is divided into three provinces—namely, Continental, British, and American. The American province is divided into two1745 the mission was broken up. The Moravian Church is divided into three provinces—namely, Continental, British, and American. The American province is divided into two districts— Northern and Southern—the respective centres being in Bethlehem, Northampton co., Pa., and Salem, Forsyth co., N. C. There were in 1900, in the American province, 111 churches, 118 ministers, and 14,817 communicants. There are several church boarding-schools; and, at Bethlehem, a college and theological seminary. At first the social and political exclusiveness of the Moravians prevented a rapid increase in their numbers; but latterly there have been great changes in this respect,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morris, Roger 1717- (search)
Morris, Roger 1717- Military officer; born in England, Jan. 28, 1717; entered the royal army as captain in 1745; accompanied Braddock in his unfortunate expedition in 1755; served under Loudoun in 1757, and in 1758 married Mary Phillipse, heiress to the Phillipse Manor, N. Y. He served with distinction under Wolfe, and was with him in the siege of Quebec in 1759. Morris (holding the rank of major) retired from the army in 1764, and took a seat in the executive council of New York late in that year. Adhering to the British crown, when the Revolution came his property and that of his wife were confiscated, and at the peace he retired, with his family, to England, where he died, Sept. 13, 1794.
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