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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greene, Nathanael 1742- (search)
l 25. Soon afterwards he besieged the fort of Ninety-Six, and on Sept. 8 gained a victory at Eutaw Springs, S. C., for which Congress gave him thanks, a British standard, and a gold medal. Expelling the British from the Southern country, Greene returned to Rhode Island at the close of the war. Congress presented him with two pieces of artillery. The State of Georgia gave him a fine plantation a few miles from Savannah, where he settled in the fall of Greene's medal. 1785, and died June 19, 1786. South Carolina also gave him a valuable tract of land. A monument dedicated jointly to Greene and Pulaski stands in the city of Savannah, and the State of Rhode Island has erected an equestrian statue of him at the national capital, executed by H. K. Browne. The doubt that had long existed as to the actual burial-place of Trading Ford on the Catawb the hero was settled early in March, 1901, when Col. Asa Bird Gardiner, acting in behalf of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
85 John Hancock, of Massachusetts, chosen president of the Continental Congress......Nov. 23, 1785 [Did not serve owing to illness.] James Rumsey succeeds in propelling a boat by steam and machinery on the Potomac......March, 1786 First spinning-jenny in the United States put in operation by Daniel Jackson, of Providence, R. I.......1786 Nathaniel Gorham chosen president of the Continental Congress......June 6, 1786 Gen. Nathanael Greene dies at Mulberry Grove, Ga.......June 19, 1786 Ordinance establishing the coinage passed......August, 1786 Delegates from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York, at Annapolis, Md., consider the condition of the nation, and request all the States to send delegates to a convention at Philadelphia in May following......Sept. 11, 1786 Connecticut makes a qualified cession to the United States of all territory south of 41° N. lat., and west of a line 120 miles west of Pennsylvania......Sept. 14, 1786 Shays
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
re grants Count d'estaing 20,000 acres of land and free citizenship of Georgia......1785 Hostile Creeks subjected by Colonel Clarke, and treaty concluded at Galphington......Nov. 12, 1785 Chatham artillery of Savannah organized......May 1, 1786 Colonel Gunn breaks up camp of runaway negroes, trained to arms by the British and ravaging country......May 6, 1786 Gen. Nathanael Greene dies at Mulberry Grove, 14 miles from Savannah, the home presented him by the legislature......June 19, 1786 Assembly directs paper bills of credit not to exceed £ 30,000 struck off under direction of governor......Aug. 14, 1786 Abram Baldwin and Hon. William Frew, delegates from Georgia, sign draught of constitution proposed for ratification......Sept. 17, 1787 Legislature at Augusta ratifies the federal Constitution, the fourth State......Jan. 2, 1788 George Handly elected governor to succeed Gen. James Jackson (age thirty), elected Jan. 9, who resigned on account of his youth....