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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
de also sent out colonists. Law, having 12 square miles of land in Arkansas, undertook to settle the domain with 1,500 Germans. The Mississippi Company resigned Louisiana to the crown in 1732. On Oct. 21, 1764, the King of France gave orders to his director-general and commandant for Louisiana to deliver up to the King of Spain all the French possessions in North America not already ceded to Great Britain. These orders were given in consequence of an act passed at Fontainebleau on Nov. 3, 1762, by which the French King ceded to the King of Spain, and to his successors, the whole country known as Louisiana, together with New Orleans, and the island on which the said city is situated, and of another act passed at the Escurial on Nov. 13, in the same year, by which his Catholic Majesty accepted that cession. When Bonaparte became actual ruler of France as First Consul he felt an ardent desire to re-establish the colonial empire of his country, and with that view he obtained fro
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arkansas (search)
It contains seventy-five counties; area, 53,045 square miles. Population, 1890, 1,128,179; 1900, 1,311,564. Capital, Little Rock. This State probably visited by De Soto......1541 La Salle passes down the Mississippi to its mouth......1682 Louis XV. of France grants to John Law, originator of the Mississippi scheme, a tract of land in the Arkansas River (Law, however, neglects it)......1720 Transfer by France to Spain of Louisiana includes the present State of Arkansas......Nov. 3, 1762 First settlement at Arkansas Post......1785 Spain cedes Louisiana to France by treaty of Ildefonso......1800 Province of Louisiana ceded by France to the United States, who pay $11,250,000 and assume the French spoliation claims ......1803 Missouri Territory established, including Arkansas and all north of the State of Louisiana and west of the Mississippi......1812 Arkansas Territory, including all north of the State of Louisiana, and south of 36° 30′, and west from the Mi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
st arrival of Acadians at New Orleans; they are sent to Attakapas and Opelousas......1756 M. Dubreuil erects a sugar-mill in New Orleans (cane-growing having been started by the Jesuits in 1751)......1758 Garrison of Fort Du Quesne flee towards New Orleans, evacuating and setting fire to the fort......Nov. 24, 1758 France cedes Louisiana to Spain, and to England all east of the Mississippi River except the island of New Orleans, and makes the Mississippi free to both nations......Nov. 3, 1762 Kerlerec succeeded by D'Abadie as director-general, who arrives at New Orleans......June 29, 1763 Delegates from all parts of the parish at New Orleans elect Jean Milhet to petition the King that the province be not severed from France......1763 English troops occupy Baton Rouge......February, 1764 Nyon de Villiers, who was in command, abandons the Illinois district and reaches New Orleans......July 2, 1764 D'Abadie dies and is succeeded by Aubrey......Feb. 4, 1765 Large
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Texas, (search)
olony by sea to Matagorda Bay......Aug. 10, 1721 Settlement of San Antonio de Bexar increased by thirteen families from the Canary Islands sent by the Spanish government; they found La Purissima Concepcion de Acuna ......March 5, 1731 Don Manuel de Sandoval appointed governor of Texas......1734 Walls of the church of the Alamo erected at San Antonio de Bexar......May, 1744 Indians attack the mission of San Saba and massacre all......1758 France cedes Louisiana to Spain......Nov. 3, 1762 Louisiana receded to France by secret treaty......Oct. 1, 1800 Philip Nolan, an American, obtains a passport from the Baron de Carondelet, governor of Louisiana, to buy horses in Texas, July 17, 1797. In the belief that he was commissioned by General Wilkinson to reconnoitre and raise an insurrection, Mexicans under Lieut. M. Muzquiz overtake him on the banks of the Blanco; Nolan is killed and his followers captured......March 21, 1801 Texas included in cession of Louisiana by F