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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Holland submarine torpedo-boat. (search)
Holland submarine torpedo-boat. John P. Holland devised a submarine boat which met with the requirements of the United States Navy Department. When submerged, the boat was propelled by electricity, and able to make 8 knots for six hours. Among the requirements were power to carry two tubes for automobile torpedoes; ability tof crew in emergency. Since the building of the first boat many improvements have been made, all tending to increase the practicability of submarine action. Mr. Holland writes of his boat as follows: When the first submarine torpedo-boat goes into action, she will bring us face to face with the most puzzling problem ever maw the last instance of a harbor of a civilized nation being closed by hostile war-ships—that is, unless the next war comes with unexpected suddenness. The six Holland boats building for the United States, though inadequate for general protection, would make a big hole in any blockading squadron that settled down in front of one
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lee, William 1737-1795 (search)
overwhelmingly Whig in politics, William Lee was elected sheriff of that city and Middlesex county in 1773. In 1775 he was chosen alderman, but on the breaking out of the war in America retired to France. Congress appointed him commercial agent at Nantes at the beginning of 1777, and he was afterwards American minister at The Hague. Mr. Lee was also agent in Berlin and Vienna, but was recalled in 1779. In 1778 Jan de Neufville, an Amsterdam merchant, procured a loan to the Americans from Holland, through his house, and, to negotiate for it, gained permission of the burgomasters of Amsterdam to meet Lee at Aix-la-Chapelle. There they arranged terms for a commercial convention proper to be entered into between the two republics. When Lee communicated this project to the American commissioners at Paris, they (having been much annoyed by the intermeddling of his brother Arthur) reminded him that the authority for treating with the States-General belonged exclusively to them. Congre
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Manhattan Island, (search)
hatans. The popular story that the name signifies place of drunkenness, and that it was given because there the Indians were made drunk by Verrazano (1524) or Hudson (1609), is apocryphal. When Peter Minuit reached New Netherland as governor (1626), he purchased the island of the natives for the Dutch West India Company for the value of sixty guilders (about $24), and paid for it in trinkets, hatchets, knives, etc. About 1612 Capt. Hendrick Christiansen carried some rabbits and goats from Holland to Manhattan, but they were poisoned by the herbage growing there, and it was a long time before any domestic animals were seen on the island excepting cats and dogs. In Landing of the Dutch settlers on Manhattan Island. the winter of 1613-14, Captain Block built a ship there—the beginning of the merchant marine of New York—and there the first permanent settlers within the domain of New York State first landed. The purchase of Manhattan Island by the Dutch from the Indians was an even
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morton, or Mourt, George 1585- (search)
Morton, or Mourt, George 1585- Author; born in York, England, in 1585; became a Puritan in 1600; settled in Leyden. Holland, and acted as agent for the Puritans in London till 1620. He then went to New England, taking reinforcements to the Pilgrims in Plymouth. He was the author of Mourt's relation of the beginning and proceeding of the English plantation settled at Plymouth in New England. He died about 1628.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Motley, John Lothrop 1814- (search)
nt a year at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin; travelled in Italy, and, returning, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1836. He wrote two historical novels— John Lothrop Motley. Master's hope (1839) and Merry Mount (1849). In 1840 he was secretary to the American legation in Russia; in 1861-67 minister to Austria; and in 1869-70 minister to Great Britain. He became interested in the history of Holland, and embarked for Europe in 1851 to gather materials for his great work, The history of the rise of the Dutch republic, which was published in London and New York in 1856. In 1861 he published The United Netherlands (2 volumes, enlarged to 4 volumes in 1867). This work was followed, in 1874, by The life and death of John of Barneveld, advocate of Holland, with a view of the Primary causes of the thirty years War On his recall from London he revisited Holland in pursuit of historical studies He afterwards went to England, where he died near Dorchester, May 29, 187
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Murphy, Henry Cruse 1810-1882 (search)
Murphy, Henry Cruse 1810-1882 Lawyer; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 5, 1810; graduated at Columbia College in 1830; admitted to the bar in 1833; elected to Congress in 1843 and 1846; was United States minister to Holland in 1857-61. Throughout his life he was interested in the study of history, especially that pertaining to the period of Dutch ascendency in New York. He translated and added notes to Voyage from Holland to America; Broad advice to the New Netherlands; The first minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in the United States; Henry Hudson in Holland; An inquiry into the origin and objects of the voyage which led to the discovery of the Hudson River; Anthology of the New Netherlands, or translations from the early Dutch poets of New York, with memoirs of their lives. He was the author of The voyage of Verrazano; and a Memoir of Hermann Ernst Ludewig. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1882.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navy of the United States (search)
-boatS.4,200T. S.d2 Farragut (No. 11）273Torpedo-boatS.5,600T. S.d2 Davis (No. 12）132Torpedo-boatS.1,750T. S.d3 Fox (No. 13）132Torpedo-boatS.1,750T. S.d3 Morris (No. 14）105Torpedo-boatS.1,750T. S.d3 Talbot (No. 15）46 1/2Torpedo-boatS.850T. S.d2 Gwin (No. 16）46Torpedo-boatS.850S.d2 Mackenzie (No. 17）65Torpedo-boatS.850S.d2 McKee (No. 18）65Torpedo-boatS.850S.d2 Somers (No. 22）145Torpedo-boatS.1,900S.d2 Manly (No. 23）b30Torpedo-boatS.b250S.d1 Stiletto (No. 53）31Torpedo-boatW.359S.d2 Holland (No. 54）73Submarine torpedo-boatS.150S.d1 a, Secondary battery Accomac187TugI.250S.a2 Active286TugS.600S.a5 Alice356TugW.250S.a2 Apache650TugW.550S.a3 Chickasaw100TugI.....S.a1 Choctaw350TugI.188S.a3 Fortune450TugI.340S... Hercules198TugI.....S.a3 Iroquois702TugS.1,000S.a3 Iwana192TugS.300S... Leyden450TugI.340S... Massasoit202TugS.....S.a1 Modoc241TugI.....S... Ships of the Navy in 1901.—Continued. Name.Displacement (Tons).Type.Hull.Indicated Horse
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, colony of (search)
n. But the attention of the company was soon called to the necessity of founding a permanent colony in New Netherland, in accordance with the English policy, which declared that the rights of eminent domain could only be secured by actual permanent occupation. King James reminded the States-General that Hollanders were unlawfully seated on English territory, but the Hollanders paid no more attention to his threats than to take measures for founding an agricultural colony. At that time Holland was the asylum for the oppressed for consciencea sake from all lands. There was a class of refugees there called Walloons, natives of the southern Belgic provinces, whose inhabitants, about forty years before, being chiefly Roman Catholics, had refused to join those of the northern provinces in a confederacy. The Protestants of these provinces (now Belgium) were made to feel the lash of Spanish persecution, and thousands of them fled to Holland. These were the Walloons who spoke the Fren
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, State of (search)
tobacco sent to New England. The colonists resisted the levy. The tax-gatherer was rude and had frequent personal collisions with the people. Finally, the people, led by John Culpeper, a refugee from South Carolina, seized the governor and the public funds, imprisoned him and six of his councillors, called a new representative Assembly, and appointed a new chief magistrate and judges. For two years the colony was thus free from foreign control. Then was enforced the political idea of Holland— Taxation without representation is tyranny. In 1683 Seth Sothel appeared in North Carolina as governor. He ruled the colony six years, when his rapacity and corruption could no longer be endured, and he was seized and banished. Perfect quiet was not restored until the Quaker John Archdale came as governor in 1695, when the colony started on a prosperous career. In 1705 Thomas Carey was appointed governor, but was afterwards removed, whereupon he incited a rebellion, and, at the head of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey 1797- (search)
ian; born in County Cork, Ireland, Feb. 29, 1797. After residing two years in Paris, he went to Quebec in 1823, where he began the practice of medicine in 1827. For three years (1834-37) he edited the Montreal Witness, and was a member of the Parliament of Lower Canada in 1836. The next year he came to the United States, and was for many years (1848-70) keeper of the historical manuscripts in the office of the secretary of state of New York. He translated the Dutch records obtained from Holland by Mr. Brodhead, contained in several published volumes. O'Callaghan wrote and edited very valuable works, such as the Documentary history of New York (4 volumes); Documents relating to the colonial history of New York (11 volumes); Journals of the legislative councils of New York (2 volumes) ; Historical manuscripts relating to the War of the Revolution; Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland (2 volumes, 1638-74). In 1845-48 he prepared and published a History of New Netherland (2 volumes)
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