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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harmar, Josiah 1753-1813 (search)
evet 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 the treaty of 1783, still held Detroit and ether Western military posts. British agents instigated the Indians of the Northwest to make war on the frontier settlers, in order to secure for British commerce the monopo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
upture between the western and eastern United States, and increase of Spanish power in America. He returns to Philadelphia......September, 1787 Settlers from western North Carolina arrive, after failure to erect the State of Frankland......March, 1789 French refugees from Santo Domingo reach New Orleans, and a few of them open the first regular theatre in the city......1791 Don Francois Louis Hector, Baron de Carondelet, succeeds Miro as governor and intendant of Louisiana......January, 1792 Publication of the first newspaper in Louisiana, Le Moniteur de la Louisiane......1794 Genet, the French ambassador to the United States, plans an expedition against the Spanish dominions, and a society of French Jacobins in Philadelphia addresses an inflammatory circular to the French in Louisiana......1794 Canal Carondelet, from New Orleans to Lake Pontchartrain, projected, begun, and abandoned by Governor Perier in 1727; recommenced and completed......1795 Étienne de Bore