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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
, 1807 British frigate Leopard, fifty guns, Captain Humphreys, fires into the United States frigate Chesapeake, Commodore Barron, off Chesapeake Bay, killing three and wounding eight, and takes four seamen, claiming them as British subjects......June 22, 1807 [Barron was suspended by a courtmartial for five years without pay and emoluments, for making no resistance and surrendering his ship.] American ports closed to the British, and British ships ordered from American waters......July, 1807 First steamboat, the Clermont (Fulton's), starts from New York for Albany......Sept. 14, 1807 Aaron Burr acquitted......Sept. 15, 1807 Tenth Congress, first session, convenes......Oct. 26, 1807 Speaker of the House, Joseph B. Varnum, Massachusetts. A British Order in council forbids neutral nations to trade with France or her allies except under tribute to Great Britain......Nov. 11, 1807 Napoleon's Milan decree forbids trade with England or her colonies, and confiscates any
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Texas, (search)
nce to the United States ratified at Washington......Oct. 21, 1803 Spanish commander, General Herrera, enters into an agreement with General Wilkinson, establishing the territory between the Sabine and Arroyo Honda rivers as neutral ground......Oct. 22, 1806 Lieut.-Col. Zebulon Pike arrives at San Antonio on his return from Chihuahua, whither he was taken by Spanish authorities to answer for building a fort on Spanish soil on the Rio del Norte, which he mistook for the Red River......July, 1807 Expedition under Lieut. Augustus W. Magee, who conceived a plan of revolutionizing Texas, takes possession of Nacogdoches, July, 1812, which the Mexicans evacuate; reaches Goliad and takes possession, Nov. 1; Governor Salcedo and General Herrera commence an investment of the town, Nov. 7; engage in battles with the Americans, Nov. 20, 1812–Jan. 24, and Feb. 10, 1813; raise the siege......Feb. 16, 1813 Magee dying about Feb. 1, 1813, Colonel Kemper takes command, pursues the Mexicans