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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Douglas , Sir Charles , 1776 -1789 (search)
Douglas, Sir Charles, 1776-1789
Naval officer; born in Scotland; joined the British navy; was placed in command of the fleet sent to the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Early in 1776 he relieved Quebec, then under siege by the Americans, after a difficult voyage through the drifting ice of the river.
He introduced locks in lieu of matches for firing guns on board ships; and was promoted rear-admiral in 1787.
He died in 1789.
Douglas, Stephen Arnold
Easton, James, 1763-
Military officer; born in Hartford, Conn.: became a builder, and settled in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1763.
Active in business and strong in intellect, he became a leader in public affairs there, and was chosen to a seat in the Massachusetts Assembly in 1774.
He was also colonel in the militia, and held the position of leader of the minute-men of that town.
When the expedition to assail Ticonderoga was organized in western Massachusetts, Colonel Easton joined Allen and Arnold in accomplishing the undertaking, and it was he who bore the first tidings of success to the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts.
He died in Pittsfield, Mass.
Febiger, Christian
Military officer; born on Fuinen Island, Denmark, in 1747; rendered military service before entering the American army in April, 1775; was in the battle of Bunker Hill, where he led a portion of a regiment of which he was adjutant; accompanied Arnold to Quebec a few months afterwards, where he was made a prisoner; and served with great fidelity throughout the war He was conspicuous in the assault on Stony Point (July, 1779), leading one of the attacking columns; also at Yorktown, where he commanded the 2d Virginia Regiment, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
From 1789 till his death, in Philadelphia, Sept. 20, 1796, Colonel Febiger was treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Federal Union , the John Fiske (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greene , Christopher 1737 - (search)
Greene, Christopher 1737-
Military officer; born in Warwick, R. I., May 12, 1737; was major in the army of observation authorized by the legislature of Rhode Island.
He accompanied Arnold through the wilderness to Quebec in the fall of 1775, and was made prisoner in the attack on that city at the close of Decem ber. In October, 1776, he was put in command of a regiment, and was placed in charge of Fort Mercer, on the Delaware, which he gallantly defended the next year.
He took part in Sullivan's campaign in Rhode Island in 1778, and in the spring of 1781 his quarters on the Croton River, Westchester co., N. Y., were surrounded by a party of loyalists, and he was slain May 13, 1781.
For his defence of Fort Mercer, Congress voted him a sword in 1786, and it was presented to his eldest son.