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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , Samuel , 1722 -1803 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bollan , William , 1740 -1776 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bunker Hill , battle of. (search)
Bunker Hill, battle of.
By reinforcements from England and Ireland, General Gage's army in Boston, at the close of May, 1775, was 10,000 strong.
With the reinforcements came Gens. William Howe, n the military tactics of Europe, but little prepared for service in America.
Thus strengthened, Gage issued a proclamation (June 12) of martial law, and offering pardon to all who should return to t w Hampshire troops were in the vicinity.
It was made known to the committee of safety that General Gage had fixed upon the night of the 18th of June to sally out and take possession of and fortify mph went up from the redoubt.
Some scattering shots had come from the houses at Charlestown; and Gage, infuriated by the repulse, gave orders to send combustibles into that village and set it on fire a British force in the field; and so unsatisfactory was the battle to the British ministry, that Gage was superseded in command by General Howe.
The general impression at the time was that the battl
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burke , Edmund , 1730 -1797 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gage , Lyman Judson 1836 - (search)
Gage, Lyman Judson 1836-
Financier; born in De Ruyter, Madison co., N. Y., June 28, 1836; was educated at the Academy in Rome, N. Y.; entered the Oneida Central Bank when seventeen years old, and served as office-boy and junior clerk till 1855, when he removed to Chicago, where he was a clerk in a planing-mill in 1855-58.
He then became a book-keeper in the Merchants' Loan and Trust Company, and was afterwards cashier.
In 1868 he was made cashier, in 1882 vice-president, and in 1891 prer.
In 1868 he was made cashier, in 1882 vice-president, and in 1891 president of the First National Bank of Chicago.
He was the first president of the board of directors of the
Lyman Judson Gage. World's Columbian Exposition; served three times as president of the American Bankers' Association; first president of the Chicago Bankers' Club; and twice president of the Civil Federation of Chicago.
On March 5, 1897, he was appointed Secretary of the United States Treasury.
See embargo acts.