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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harris , George , Lord -1829 (search)
Harris, George, Lord -1829
Military officer; born March 18, 1746; became captain in 1771, and came to America in 1775.
He was in the skirmish at Lexington and was wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill.
In the battles of Long Island, Harlem Plains, and White Plains, and in every battle in which General Howe, Sir Henry Clinton, and Earl Cornwallis, in the North, participated, until late in 1778, he was an actor.
Then he went on an expedition to the West Indies; served under Byron off Grenada in 1779; also, afterwards, in India, and in 1798 was made governor of Madras, and placed at the head of the army against Tippoo Sultan, capturing Seringapatam, for which service he received public thanks and promotion.
In 1812 he was raised to the peerage.
He died in Belmont, Kent, England, May 19, 1829.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15 : ecclesiastical History. (search)