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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Barney, Joshua, 1759- (search)
ommander was wounded, young Barney brought her into port. Soon afterwards he was made a prisoner, but was speedily released, and in the Andrea Doria he was engaged in the defence of the Delaware River in 1777. He was again made prisoner, and was exchanged in August. 1778. A third time he was made captive (1779), and after his exchange was a fourth time made a prisoner, while serving in the Saratoga, 16, was sent to England, and confined in the famous Mill prison, from which he escaped in May, 1781. He was retaken, and again escaped, and arrived in Philadelphia in March, 1782, where he took command of the Hyder Ali, 16, in which he captured the General Monk, of heavier force and metal. For this exploit the legislature of Maryland presented him with a sword. At the close of the war he engaged in business on shore, but very soon took to the sea again. At Cape Francis, W. I., he received on his ship (1792) a large number of women and children who had escaped massacre by the blacks.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Battles. (search)
BlackstocksNov. 20, 1780 CowpensJan. 17, 1781 GuilfordMar. 15, 1781 Hobkirk's HillApril 25, 1781 Ninety-six (Siege of)May and June 1781 Augusta (Siege of)May and June 1781 JamestownJuly 9, 1781 Eutaw SpringsSept. 8, 1781 Yorktown (Siege of)May and June 1781 JamestownJuly 9, 1781 Eutaw SpringsSept. 8, 1781 Yorktown (Siege of)Sept. and Oct. 1781 naval engagements. Hampton, Va. (British fleet repulsed)Oct. 24, 1775 Fort Sullivan, Charleston Harbor (British fleet repulsed)June 28, 1776 Fort Stony Point, on the Hudson (captured by British fleet）May 31, 1779 Verplanck's BlackstocksNov. 20, 1780 CowpensJan. 17, 1781 GuilfordMar. 15, 1781 Hobkirk's HillApril 25, 1781 Ninety-six (Siege of)May and June 1781 Augusta (Siege of)May and June 1781 JamestownJuly 9, 1781 Eutaw SpringsSept. 8, 1781 Yorktown (Siege of)May and June 1781 JamestownJuly 9, 1781 Eutaw SpringsSept. 8, 1781 Yorktown (Siege of)Sept. and Oct. 1781 naval engagements. Hampton, Va. (British fleet repulsed)Oct. 24, 1775 Fort Sullivan, Charleston Harbor (British fleet repulsed)June 28, 1776 Fort Stony Point, on the Hudson (captured by British fleet）May 31, 1779 Verplanck's
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cruger, John Harris 1738-1807 (search)
Cruger, John Harris 1738-1807 Military officer; born in New York City in 1738; brother of Henry Cruger, Jr., and succeeded his father as member of the governor's council. He married a daughter of Col. Oliver De Lancey, and commanded a battalion of his loyalist corps. He served under Cornwallis in South Carolina, and was in command of Fort Ninety-Six when besieged by Greene in May, 1781, and was praised for his successful defence of the post until relieved by Lord Rawdon. In the battle of Eutaw Springs, in September, he commanded the British centre. At the close of the war he went to England, and his property was confiscated. He died in London, Jan. 3, 1807.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Florida, (search)
St. Augustine, to the number of 1,500, where they engaged in the cultivation of indigo and the sugar-cane; but, becoming dissatisfied with their employers, they removed to St. Augustine. During the Revolutionary War the trade of the Southern colonies was seriously interfered with by pirates fitted out in Florida, and the British incited the Indians in that region to make war on the Americans. The Spaniards invaded west Florida, and captured the garrison at Baton Rouge, in 1779; and in May, 1781, they seized Pensacola. By the treaty of 1783, Florida was retroceded to Spain, and the western boundary was defined, when a greater part of the inhabitants emigrated to the United States. When, in 1803, Louisiana was ceded to the United States by France, it was declared to be ceded with the same extent that it had in the hands of Spain, and as it had been ceded by Spain to France. This gave the United States a claim to the country west of the Perdido River, and the government took pos
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
se, N. C.March 15, 1781 British under Generals Phillips and Benedict Arnold occupy PetersburgApril 24, 1781 Battle of Hobkirk's Hill, S. C. April 25, 1781 Union of Vermont with the British proposed to Col. Ira Allen at Isles aux Noix, Canada May, 1781 Cornwallis joins Arnold at Petersburg, Va. May 20, 1781 Augusta, Ga., taken by Colonel Clark, Sept. 14, 1780; retaken by British, Sept. 17, 1780; capitulates to Americans June 5, 1781 General Wadsworth captured, and imprisoned at Castine, Me Laurens) sent abroad to obtain loans was quite successful, and a national bank was established in Philadelphia and put in charge of Robert Morris, the superintendent of the treasury. Count de Rochambeau received intelligence at the close of May, 1781, that the Count de Grasse might be expected on the coast of the United States with a powerful French fleet in July or August. This news caused the French forces, which had lain idle at Newport many months, to move immediately for the Hudson Ri
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sumter, Thomas 1734-1832 (search)
rprised and defeated at Fishing Creek by Tarleton. He soon raised another corps and repulsed Colonel Wemyss near the Broad River (Nov. 12), and at Blackstocks defeated Tarleton, who attempted to surprise him. So vigilant and brave was Sumter that the British called him the South Carolina Gamecock. Raising three regiments, with Marion and Perkins he dreadfully harassed the British and Tories in South Carolina. He received the thanks of Congress, Jan. 13, 1781. Cornwallis, writing to Tarleton, said of him, He certainly has been our greatest plague in this country. He captured the British post at Orangeburg (May, 1781), and soon afterwards those Thomas Sumter. at Dorchester and Monk's Corner. General Sumter was a warm friend of the national Constitution, and was member of Congress under it in 1789-93, and again in 1797-1801. He was United States Senator in 1801-10, when he was appointed United States minister to Brazil. He died at South Mount, near Camden, S. C., June 1, 1832.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vermont, (search)
ont......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 Fay, Ira Allen, and Bazaleel Woodward sent by the legislature to represent the cause of Vermont to the Continental Congress......June 22, 1781 First newspaper in Vermont, the Vermont Gazette, or Green Mountain Postboy, printed at Westminster by Judah Paddock Spooner and Timothy Green......1781 Congress resolves that an indispensable preliminary to the admission of Vermont as a State should be the relinquishing of territory east of the Connecticut and west of the present New
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
Nelson......April 24, 1781 General Lafayette approaches Petersburg......May 11, 1781 General Phillips dies at Petersburg......May 13, 1781 Lord Cornwallis reaches Petersburg......May 19, 1781 Cornwallis sends Arnold to New York......May, 1781 Cornwallis starts in pursuit of Lafayette......May, 1781 Lafayette and Wayne unite their forces......June 7, 1781 Cornwallis retires to Williamsburg......June 25, 1781 Lafayette attacks Cornwallis near Green Springs, and is repulsMay, 1781 Lafayette and Wayne unite their forces......June 7, 1781 Cornwallis retires to Williamsburg......June 25, 1781 Lafayette attacks Cornwallis near Green Springs, and is repulsed......July 6, 1781 Cornwallis crosses the James and reaches Portsmouth......July 9, 1781 Cornwallis retires with his army to Yorktown......Aug. 4, 1781 General Lafayette at the forks of the Pamunky and Mattaponey......Aug. 13, 1781 American and French army starts for Yorktown, Va., from the Hudson River......Aug. 25, 1781 Count de Grasse arrives in the Chesapeake with twenty-six French ships of the line......Aug. 30, 1781 Combined army passes Philadelphia on the way to Yorkt
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
630 To be held once each month, Mar. 6, 1631 Permanently. established at Boston, Oct. 3, 1632 Don't recognize the King's commissioners, May 24, 1665 Send agents to England to appease the King, 1683 Removed to Concord on account of small-pox, Jan. 3, 1764 Closed for want of revenue stamps, Dec. 18, 1765 Removed to Cambridge by the Governor, Mar. 20, 1771 General, of Massachusetts, organized, John Hancock Governor, Oct. 25, 1780 Held a session in Boston Town-house, May, 1781 Removed to the new State House, Beacon hill, 1798 Time of assembling changed from May to Jan., May, 1831 Municipal, at Boston, established; William Minot, Judge, June 2, 1800 Removed from School to Leverett street, June 20, 1822 Removed from Leverett to School, Johnson's Hall, June 13, 1831 Removed to new Court House, Court street, Jan. 1, 1837 Name changed to Superior Court, July 2, 1866 Police, first organized in Boston, June 20, 1822 Court Police, located
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 19: (search)
tate to fulfil its federal engagements; and the reason for the measure as assigned in the preamble was to cement and invigorate the federal union that it might be established on the most immutable basis. From that day Madison never ceased his efforts till a better system was established; but the most reflecting and far-seeing observers of the inadequacy of the powers allowed to congress dared not hope that its members would be able to remodel the confederacy. In a pamphlet published in May, 1781, at the city in which they were assembled, Pelatiah Webster, an able though not a conspicuous citizen, pointed out to them the necessity of their calling a continental convention for the express purpose of ascertaining, defining, enlarging, and limiting the duties and powers of their constitution. The American people were bent on having a government, though their road to it lay through humiliation and sorrow. But, while the United States Chap. XIX.} 1781. May. were slowly sounding t
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