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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hull, William 1753-1825 (search)
n, Mass., from which he was summoned to appear before a court-martial at Philadelphia on Feb. 25, 1813, of which Gen. Wade Hampton was appointed president. The members of the court were three brigadier-generals, nine colonels, and three lieutenant-colonels. A. J. Dallas, of Pennsylvania, was judge-advocate. This court was suddenly dissolved by the President, without giving any reason for the act; and, almost a year afterwards, Hull was summoned before another, convened at Albany, N. Y., Jan. 3, 1814, composed of three brigadier-generals, four colonels, and five lieutenant-colonels, with Dallas as judge-advocate. General Dearborn was appointed president of the court. His neglect of duty to inform Hull of an armistice he had entered into with the British (and so allowed Brock to go unopposed to Fort Malden with troops) was charged by the accused and his friends as the chief cause of the disaster at Detroit. The defendant might justly have objected to that officer as his chief judge
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
ed......March 27–Sept. 7, 1807 Col. Thomas H. Cushing, by court-martial at Baton Rouge, on charges of Brig-Gen. Wade Hampton......1812 Patrick Byrne, for mutiny, by general court-martial at Fort Columbus; sentenced to death......May 22, 1813 Gen. W. Hull, commanding the northwestern army of the United States, for cowardice in surrender of Detroit, Aug. 16, etc.; by court-martial, held at Albany, sentenced to be shot; sentence approved by the President, but execution remitted......Jan. 3, 1814 Dartmouth College case, defining the power of States over corporations......1817-18 Arbuthnot and Ambrister, by court-martial, April 26, 1818, for inciting Creek Indians to war against the United States; executed by order of General Jackson......April 30, 1818 Stephen and Jesse Boorn, at Manchester, Vt., Nov. 1819, for the murder of Louis Colvin, who disappeared in 1813; sentenced to be hanged......Jan. 28, 1820 [Six years after Colvin disappeared an uncle of the Boorns drea
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Second session convenes......Dec. 6, 1813 Embargo established by Congress until Jan. 1, 1815......Dec. 17, 1813 President Madison orders a general court-martial at Albany, N. Y., upon Brig.-Gen. Wm. Hull for the surrender of Detroit......Jan. 3, 1814 An English vessel, the Bramble, under a flag of truce, arrives at Annapolis, Md., with offers of peace......Jan. 6, 1814 Congress authorizes increasing the army to 63,000 regular troops, and five years service......January, 1814 Danieconfining British captives.] Loan of $25,000,000 and an issue of treasury notes for $10,000,000 authorized by Congress......March 24, 1814 Brig.-Gen. Wm. Hull is found guilty on the second and third charges, and sentenced to be shot (see Jan. 3, 1814)......March 26, 1814 [This sentence was approved by the President, but the execution remitted.] Repeal of the embargo......April 14, 1814 Congress authorizes the purchase of the British vessels captured on Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1813, f