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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ut in irons for a day, led this war-party.] Maj. F. L. Dade, with 100 men, moving from Fort Brooke to the relief of Gen. Clinch, is waylaid and the entire party killed except four, who afterwards die of injuries there received......Dec. 28, 1835 Treaty with the Cherokee Indians in Georgia; they cede all their territory east of the Mississippi for $5,000,000......Dec. 29, 1835 Memorial presented to Congress praying for the abolition of slavery within the District of Columbia......Jan. 11, 1836 Texas declares her independence......March 2, 1836 Mexicans under Santa Ana capture the Alamo, San Antonio, Tex., and massacre the garrison. David Crockett killed here......March 6, 1836 Battle of San Jacinto, defeat of Santa Ana.......April 21, 1836 Mexico acknowledges independence of Texas......May 14, 1836 House resolves, by a vote of 117 to 68, that everything presented to that body in any way relating to slavery or its abolition shall be laid on the table without fur
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wyant, Alexander H. 1836-1892 (search)
Wyant, Alexander H. 1836-1892 artist; born in Port Washington, O., Jan. 11, 1836; studied in Carlsruhe, Dusseldorf, and London; opened a studio in New York City in 1864; was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1868, and an Academician in 1869. Among his pictures are Staten Island from the Jersey Meadows; Scene on the Upper Susquehanna; Fort at New Bedford; A midsummer retreat; New England landscape; Scene on the Upper little Miami, etc. He died in New York City, Nov. 29, 1892.