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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harmar, Josiah 1753-1813 (search)
of Robert Proud, the Quaker and historian; entered the army as captain of a Pennsylvania regiment in 1776; was its lieutenant-colonel in 1777; and served faithfully through the war in the North and the South. Made brevet colonel in the United States army in September, 1783, he was sent to France in 1784 with the ratification of the definitive treaty of peace. He was made Indian agent for the territory northwest of the Ohio, and in 1787 Congress made him a brevet brigadier-general. On Sept. 29, 1789, he was appointed commander-inchief of the army of the United States, and had charge of an expedition against the Miami Indians in the fall of 1790, but was defeated. Harmar resigned his commission in January, 1792, and was made adjutant-general of Pennsylvania in 1793, in which post he was active in furnishing Pennsylvania troops for Wayne's campaign in 1793-94. He died in Philadelphia, Aug. 20, 1813. At the time of his expedition against the Indians, the British, in violation of t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
....Sept. 22, 1789 Office of Attorney-General organized......Sept. 24, 1789 Supreme Court of the United States established, with John Jay, of New York, as chief-justice......September, 1789 Twelve Amendments to the Constitution submitted to the States for ratification......Sept. 25, 1789 [Ten of these ratified, taking effect Dec. 15, 1791.] Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, the minister to France, appointed Secretary of State......Sept. 26, 1789 First session adjourns......Sept. 29, 1789 President visits Northern and Eastern States......Oct. 15, 1789 North Carolina ratifies the Constitution......Nov. 21, 1789 Second session meets, New York......Jan. 4, 1790 First annual message from the President......Jan. 4, 1790 Secretary Hamilton reports on the public debt......Jan. 14, 1790 [He proposed that the government— First, Fund and pay the foreign debt of the Confederation ($12,000,000) ; second, Fund and pay the domestic debt ($40,000,000); third, Assume an