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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Prescott, Richard 1725-1788 (search)
h thirty-eight picked men, in four whale-boats, accompanied by a negro named Prince, crossed Narraganset Bay from Warwick Point at 9 P. M. on July 10, 1777, to accomplish the task. Barton divided his men into small parties, and to each assigned a special duty. Misleading the sentinel at the gate of the house, belonging to Samuel Overton, Barton entered. Prescott was sleeping in an upper room. Ascending to it, Prescott's headquarters. the negro burst in a panel of the door, through which Barton entered, seized the general, bade him be perfectly silent, and, hurrying him to one of the boats, thrust him in, and there allowed him to dress. He was taken to Warwick Point, and from thence he was sent to Washington's headquarters in New Jersey. He was finally exchanged for General Lee; went back to Rhode Island, and remained in command there until it was evacuated, Oct. 25, 1779. He was made major-general in 1777, and lieutenant-general in 1782. He died in England in October, 1788.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
mborough Head, England; the Bon Homme Richard (American), Paul Jones commander, captures the British gun-ship Serapis Sept. 23, 1779 John Jay appointed minister to Spain, and John Adams to negotiate a peace with Great Britain Sept. 27, 1779 Siege of Savannah, Ga., by Americans and French, fails; Pulaski killedSept. 23-Oct. 9, 1779 A company of British regulars and four armed vessels in the Ogeechee River, Ga., surrenders to Colonel WhiteOct. 1, 1779 British evacuate Rhode Island Oct. 11-25, 1779 M. Gerard succeeded by the Chevalier de la Luzerne as minister from France to the United StatesNov. 17, 1779 American army winters at Morristown Dec., 1779 General Clinton sails from New York against Charleston Dec. 26, 1779 Washington reprimands General Arnold, by order of Congress, for misconduct charged by the council of Philadelphia Jan., 1780 Gen. Charles Lee dismissed from the army Jan. 10, 1780 Congress sends General Gates to succeed Baron de Kalb, who, by the surrender of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
British somewhat more......Aug. 29, 1778 Americans under General Sullivan retreat from Rhode Island to Tiverton, Aug. 30, 1778, and the British fleet with the army of Sir Henry Clinton arrives at Newport......Aug. 31, 1778 Maj. Silas Talbot, with the sloop Hawk, captures the Pigot, a British galley which blockaded the eastern passage......Oct. 28, 1778 General Assembly grants £ 500 for distressed inhabitants of Newport......January, 1779 British embark for New York......Oct. 11-25, 1779 French army lands at Newport......July 10, 1780 Public reception given to General Washington in Newport......March 6, 1781 General Assembly authorizes manumission of slaves, makes free negroes or mulattoes born in the State after March 1, 1784, and repeals slavery act of 1774......Feb. 23, 1784 Marine Society, instituted in 1754 under the name of The fellowship Club, is chartered......June, 1785 Stephen Hopkins dies near Providence......July 13, 1785 First spinning-jenny i