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Eastport, capture of.
Early in July, 1814, Sir Thomas M. Hardy sailed secretly from Halifax with a squadron, consisting of the Ramillies (the flag-ship), sloop Martin, brig Borer, the Bream, the bombship Terror, and several transports, with troops under Col. Thomas Pilkington.
The squadron entered Passamaquoddy Bay on the 11th, and anchored off Fort Sullivan, at Eastport, Me., then in command of Maj. Perley Putnam with a garrison of fifty men, having six pieces of artillery.
Hardy demanded an instant surrender, giving Putnam only five minutes to consider.
The latter promptly refused, but at the importunity of the alarmed inhabitants, who were indisposed to resist, he surrendered the post on condition that, while the British should take possession of all public property, private property should be respected.
This was agreed to, and 1,000 armed men, with women and children, a battalion of artillery, and fifty or sixty pieces of cannon were landed on the main, when formal poss
Ghent, treaty of
The treaty between the United States and Great Britain, which terminated the War of 1812.
The American commissioners were John Quincy Adams, James Bayard, Henry Clay, Jonathan Russell, and Albert Gallatin; the British commissioners were Lord Gambier, Henry Goulburn, and William Adams.
The American commissioners assembled in the city of Ghent, Belgium, in July, 1814; the British commissioners early in the following month.
The terms of the treaty were concluded Dec. 24, following, and the ratifications were exchanged Feb. 17, 1815.
While the negotiations were in progress the leading citizens of Ghent took great interest in the matter.
Their sympathies were with the Americans, and they mingled their rejoicings with the commissioners when the work was done.
On Oct. 27 the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts at Ghent invited the American commissioners to attend their exercises, when they were all elected honorary members of the academy.
A sumptuous dinner was give
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Miller , James 1776 -1851 (search)
Miller, James 1776-1851
Military officer; born in Peterboro, N. H., April 25, 1776; entered the army as major in 1808, and was lieutenant-colonel and leader of the Americans in the battle at Brownstown in 1812.
He was distinguished in events on the
James Miller. Niagara frontier, especially in the battle at Niagara Falls, or Lundy's Lane, in July, 1814.
For his services there he was brevetted brigadier-general, and received from Congress a gold medal.
He was governor of Arkansas from 1819 to 1825, and collector of the port of Salem from 1825 to 1849.
He died in Temple, N. H., July 7, 1851.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sherbrooke , Sir John Coape 1760 -1830 (search)
Sherbrooke, Sir John Coape 1760-1830
Military officer; born in England, about 1760; became lieutenant-general in the British army in 1811.
Early in July, 1814, Commodore Hardy sailed secretly from Halifax, with a considerable land and naval force, and captured Eastport, Me., without much opposition.
This easy conquest encouraged the British to attempt the seizure of the whole region between Passamaquoddy Bay and the Penobscot River.
A strong squadron, under Admiral Griffith, bearing about 4,000 troops, led by Sherbrooke, then governor of Nova Scotia, captured Castine, on Penobscot Bay, and also Belfast, and went up the Penobscot River to Hampden, a few miles below Bangor, to capture or destroy the American corvette John Adams, which, caught in that stream, had gone up so far to escape from the British.
The militia, called to defend Hampden and the Adams, fled when the British approached, and the object of the latter was accomplished.
Captain Morris, commander of the Adams,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Worth , William Jenkins 1794 -1849 (search)
Worth, William Jenkins 1794-1849
Military officer; born in Hudson, N. Y., March 1, 1794; began life as a clerk in a store at Hudson, and entered the military service, as lieutenant of infantry, in May, 1813.
He was highly distinguished in the battles of Chippewa and at Lundy's Lane, in July, 1814, and was severely wounded in the latter contest.
He was in command of cadets at West Point from 1820 to 1828, and in 1838 was made colonel of the 8th United States Infantry.
He served in the Seminole War from 1840 to 1842, and was in command of the army in Florida in 1841-42.
He was brevetted a brigadiergeneral in March, 1842, commanded a brigade under General Taylor in Mexico in 1846, and was distinguished in the capture of Monterey.
In 1847-48 he commanded a division, under General Scott, in the capture of Vera Cruz, and in the battles from Cerro Gordo to the assault and capture of the city of Mexico.
He was brevetted major-general, and was presented with a sword by Congress, by