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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 1 1 Browse Search
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ress establishes land offices at Kaskaskia, Vincennes, and Detroit......March 15, 1804 John Kinzie, of the American Fur Company, buys Le Mai's trading-house; is the first permanent settler at Chicago......1804 By the treaty of St. Louis, Nov. 3, 1804, the united Sac and Fox Indians cede to the United States land on both sides of the Mississippi River, extending on the east from the mouth of the Illinois to its head and thence to the Wisconsin......Nov. 3, 1804 Piankeshaw Indians cede toNov. 3, 1804 Piankeshaw Indians cede to the United States 2,616,921 acres west of the Wabash, opposite Vincennes......Dec. 30, 1805 Territory of Illinois created with Kaskaskia as the seat of government......Feb. 3, 1809 Ninian Edwards commissioned governor by Madison......April 24, 1809 Mail route established by law from Vincennes to St. Louis, via Kaskaskia, Prairie du Rocher, and Cahokia......1810 Illinois raised to second grade of territorial government......May 21, 1812 Owing to Indian murders and outrages a cordo
ssissippi......1780 At a council at Prairie du Chien, Julien Dubuque, a French-Canadian trader, obtains from Indians permission to work lead-mines at the place now bearing his name and a grant of 140,000 acres of land......1788 Land grant to Julien Dubuque by Indians is confirmed by Baron Carondelet, and a King's title issued......1796 Lands on both sides of the Mississippi, including a large part of Iowa, ceded to United States by Sac and Fox Indians, by treaty at St. Louis......Nov. 3, 1804 Territory of Louisiana, including Iowa, framed by law of......March 3, 1805 Iowa included in Territory of Missouri, erected by act......June 4, 1812 Fort Madison, built in 1808, on the site selected by Lieutenant Pike in 1805, is abandoned by the garrison and burned to prevent its falling into the hands of Indians and British......1813 Sioux annihilate Sac and Fox tribes near Dubuque; whites occupy deserted villages, but are driven out by United States troops under Lieut. Jeff
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
03 Congress divides Louisiana into a southern territory of Orleans and a northern district of Louisiana......March 26, 1804 Territorial government in Orleans begins: William C. C. Claiborne governor......Oct. 1, 1804 Vessel bringing nearly 200 French prisoners of the British government, who had captured the ship, Governor Claiborne refuses to allow it to ascend the river; the French desert the ship, which is seized by the United States marshal at request of British claimants......Nov. 3, 1804 New Orleans chartered as a city..1804 Territorial government giving the people no power, the merchants, planters, and other inhabitants of Louisiana petition Congress, declaring its organization oppressive and degrading......Jan. 4, 1805 Congress provides for a government of the Territory of Orleans in all respects like that of Mississippi Territory, except as to the descent and distribution of estates and the prohibition of slavery......March 2, 1805 Col. Aaron Burr arrives in N
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wisconsin, (search)
Sheboygan, Manitowoc, and Milwaukee, by Jacques Vieau......1795 Western posts surrendered by England to the United States......June 1, 1796 Wisconsin included in the Territory of Indiana, created by act approved......May 7, 1800 Judge Charles Reaume appointed justice of the peace at Green Bay by Gov. William Henry Harrison, of Indiana.......1803 By treaty of St. Louis the united Sacs and Foxes cede to the United States land, a portion of which lies in southern Wisconsin......Nov. 3, 1804 Wisconsin included in the Territory of Illinois, created by act approved......Feb. 3, 1809 Thomas Nuttall and John Bradbury, naturalists, explore Wisconsin......1809 Governor Clarke takes possession of Prairie du Chien and builds Fort Shelby......1813 Fort Shelby surrendered to the British under Colonel McKay......July 19, 1814 United States troops occupy Prairie du Chien and commence Fort Crawford on the site of Fort McKay, formerly Fort Shelby......June, 1816 Fort Howa