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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mississippi, (search)
thorizes an immediate issue of $5,000,000 of State stock, which was sold at a heavy discount through the bank of the United States......Feb. 15, 1838 Legislature sanctions the sale of stock for the bank......1839 Governor McNutt by message advises repudiating the Union Bank bonds sold to the United States Bank of Pennsylvania......1841 Legislature by resolution denies that the State is under any obligation, legal or moral, to redeem the Union Bank bonds......1842 State Treasurer Richard S. Graves arrested for embezzlement of State funds to the amount of $44,838.46. He escapes from the house of the sheriff and flees to Canada......1843 Robert J. Walker appointed Secretary of United States Treasury......March 6, 1845 Law passed establishing common schools......March 4, 1846 Mississippi regiment, under command of Col. Jefferson Davis, serves in the Mexican War......1846 University of Mississippi at Oxford, chartered in 1844, is opened......1848 Governor Quitman
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
ican and French army starts for Yorktown, Va., from the Hudson River......Aug. 25, 1781 Count de Grasse arrives in the Chesapeake with twenty-six French ships of the line......Aug. 30, 1781 Combined army passes Philadelphia on the way to Yorktown......Sept. 2, 1781 Count de St. Simon lands 3,200 French at Jamestown Island, and Lafayette joins him at Green Spring......Sept. 3, 1781 They occupy Williamsburg, about 15 miles from Yorktown......Sept. 5, 1781 British fleet under Admiral Graves appears off the Chesapeake, and skirmishes with the French fleet......Sept. 7, 1781 Washington reaches Williamsburg......Sept. 14, 1781 He visits Count de Grasse to plan the siege......Sept. 18, 1781 French and American army (about 16,000) advances within 2 miles of the British outposts......Sept. 28, 1781 First parallel of the American army opened on Yorktown......Oct. 5-6, 1781 Storming parties (American under Col. Alexander Hamilton and French under Baron de Viomenil) c
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Yorktown, siege of (search)
Yorktown, siege of The allied armies joined Lafayette at Williamsburg, Va., Sept. 25, 1781, and on the 27th there was a besieging army there of 16,000 men, under the chief command of Washington, assisted by Rochambeau. The British force, about half as numerous, were mostly behind intrenchments at Yorktown. On the arrival of Washington and Rochambeau at Williamsburg they proceeded to the Ville de Paris, De Grasse's flag-ship, to congratulate the admiral on his victory over Graves on the 5th, and to make specific arrangements for the future. Preparations for the siege were immediately begun. The allied armies marched from Williamsburg (Sept. 28), driving in the British outposts as they approached Yorktown, and taking possession of abandoned works. The allies formed a semicircular line about 2 miles from the British intrenchments, each wing resting on the Route of Washington's army from the Hudson to Yorktown. York River, and on the 30th the place was completely invested. T