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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Florida, (search)
most distinguished citizens of Carolina are seized by the British and transported as prisoners to St. Augustine......1780 Governor Tonyn, owing to the state of public affairs, is forced to call a General Assembly, which meets......March 17, 1781 Don Bernardo de Galvez, assisted by a naval force under Admiral Solana, invests Pensacola; Forts St. Michel and St. Bernard garrisoned by 1,000 English under General Campbell; the magazine of fort exploding, General Campbell capitulates......March, 1781 Country west of Pensacola as far as the Mississippi River receded to Great Britain by Spain......1781 Expedition under Colonel Devereux sails from St. Augustine, and with fifty men captures the Bahama Islands from Spain......1783 By treaty, Great Britain cedes to Spain east and west Florida, evacuation to take place within three months......Sept. 3, 1783 Governor Zespedez, the new Spanish governor, arrives at St Augustine and takes possession of Florida in the name of the Ki
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vermont, (search)
es to form a State, with capital on the Connecticut......Dec. 9, 1778 Assembly of Vermont declares the union of 1778, with the sixteen towns east of the Connecticut, null and void......Feb. 12, 1779 Legislature of New York refers to Congress to determine equitably the controversy between New York and Vermont......Oct. 21, 1779 Town of Royalton attacked by 300 Indians from Canada; many buildings burned......Oct. 16, 1780 Massachusetts assents to the independence of Vermont......March, 1781 Towns east of the Connecticut annexed to Vermont at their request......April, 1781 Col. Ira Allen, commissioner to exchange prisoners with the British, reaches Ile aux Noix, a few miles north of the Canadian line, about May 8, and spends seventeen days in conference; a union of Vermont with the British is proposed, under instructions from General Haldimand, by encouraging which Allen effects an exchange of prisoners and cessation of hostilities on the border......May, 1781 Jonas