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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Academy of natural Sciences ,
Academy of natural Sciences,
An institution in Philadelphia, Pa.; founded in 1812; has published Journals since 1817, and Proceedings since 1841; and is noted for its very large collection of specimens in natural history.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , Charles Francis 1807 -1886 (search)
Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886
Statesman; born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 18, 1807;
Charles Francis Adams. son of John Quincy Adams; was graduated at Harvard College in 1825.
He accompanied his father to St. Petersburg and England, where he passed much of his childhood until the return of his family to America in 1817. Mr. Adams studied law in the office of Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the bar in 1828, but never practised it as a vocation.
In 1829 he married a daughter of Peter C. Brooks, of Boston.
For five years he was a member of the legislature of Massachusetts.
Having left the Whig Party, he was a candidate of the free-soil party (q. v.) in 1848 for the Vice-Presidency of the United States. Mr. Van Buren being the candidate for the Presidency.
They were defeated.
In 1850-56 Mr. Adams published the Life and works of John Adams (his grandfather), in 10 volumes.
In 1859 he was elected to Congress from the district which his father long represented.
He was then a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , John Quincy 1767 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alger , Cyrus 1781 -1856 (search)
Alger, Cyrus, 1781-1856
Inventor; born in West Bridgewater, Mass., Nov. 11, 1781; became an iron-founder early in life.
In 1809 he founded in Boston the works which since 1817 have been known as the South Boston Iron Company.
During the War of 1812 he supplied the government with a large number of cannon-balls.
He devised many improvements in the construction of time-fuses for bomb-shells and grenades.
In 1811 he invented a method of making cast-iron chilled rolls.
and in 1822 designed the cylinder stove.
The first perfect bronze cannon.
the first gun ever rifled in the United States, and the largest gun of cast-iron, the Columbiad mortar, that had been cast in the country, were turned out at his foundry under his personal supervision.
He died in Boston, Feb. 4. 1856.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allen , William 1710 -1780 (search)
Amelia Island,
An island at the mouth of the St. Mary River, near the boundary between Georgia and Florida.
In the summer of 1817 Gregor McGregor, styling himself Brigadier-general of the armies of New Granada and Venezuela, and general-in-chief employed to liberate the provinces of both the Floridas.
commissioned by the supreme councils of Mexico and South America, took possession of this island.
His followers were a band of adventurers which he had collected in Charleston and Savannah;
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Anglo-American commission ,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arbuthnot Ambrister
Arbuthnot and Ambrister, case of,
Alexander Arbuthnot, a scotchman, then nearly seventy years of age, went to Florida from New Providence in his own schooner in 1817, to trade with the Indians, Ambrister, born in London in 1785, was a lieutenant in the English marine service, and was present at the battle of Waterloo.
For fighting a duel with a brother officer he was suspended for one year.
While with his uncle, the governor of New Providence, he met Arbuthnot, with whom he visited Florida.
Here it was alleged they became implicated in Indian difficulties that General Jackson was sent to quell in 1818.
By order of General Jackson, Arbuthnot and Ambrister were seized and tried by a military court, convened April 26, 1818, at Fort St. Marks, Fla., Gen. Ed. P. Gaines, president, for inciting the Creek Indian to war against the United States.
Ambrister made no defence, but threw himself on the mercy of the court.
Arbuthnot was sentenced to be hanged.
Ambrister was first senten
Augusta,
City and county-seat of Richmond county, Ga.; on the Savannah River at the head of steamboat navigation; 120 miles northwest of Savannah.
It is one of the largest and most progressive manufacturing cities in the South.
It was founded by English settlers under Oglethorpe, and received the name of an English princess.
In 1817 it was incorporated a city, and was for many years the most important inland place in the State.
The population in 1890 was 33,300; in 1900, 39,441.
When Cornwallis proceeded to subjugate South Carolina, he sent Lieutenant-Colonel Brown, a Tory leader, to hold Augusta.
Over this garrison Pickens and Clarke had kept watch, and when, on May 20, 1781, they were joined by Lee and his legion, they proceeded to invest the fort there.
They took Fort Galphin, 12 miles below, on the 21st, and then an officer was sent to demand the surrender of Augusta.
Lieutenant-Colonel Brown was one of the most cruel of the Tories in that region, and the partisans