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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 10 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Declaration of Independence, Dutch. (search)
performed to him and to all the rest who were ministers of his tyranny, upon his return to Spain. And, the more to blind his subjects, he sent at the same time Don John, his natural brother, as of his blood, to govern these countries, who under pretence of approving the treaty of Ghent confirming the promise made to the States ohat, gaining them over to his party, he might by their assistance reduce Holland and Zealand, after which the other provinces would be easily subdued. Whereupon Don John, notwithstanding his solemn promise and oath, in the presence of all the aforesaid States, to observe the pacification of Ghent, and other articles stipulated beKing, during which time the inhabitants were not treated as subjects, but enemies, enslaved forcibly by their own governors. Having also, after the decease of Don John, sufficiently declared by the Baron de Selles that he would not allow the pacification of Ghent, the which Don John had in his majesty's name sworn to maintain,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McCook, Daniel 1798- (search)
McCook, Daniel 1798- Military officer; born in Canonsburg. Pa., June 20, 1798; was educated at Jefferson College, and subsequently settled in Carrollton, O. He was sixty-three years old at the beginning of the Civil War, but offered his services to the government, and entered the army as a major. He was mortally wounded while trying to intercept Gen. John Morgan, in his raid, and died near Buffington's Island, O., July 21, 1863. Ten of his sons served in the Union army. Military officer; born in Carrollton, O., July 22, 1834; another son of Major McCook; graduated at the Alabama University in 1858; studied law, and after being admitted to the bar in Steubenville, O., settled in Leavenworth, Kan. At the beginning of the Civil War he entered the Union army as captain of a local company. Later he was chief of staff of the 1st division of the Army of the Ohio in the campaign of Shiloh. He became colonel of the 52d Ohio Infantry in 1862, and was assigned to command a briga
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts, (search)
s at the fort, because the question of their loyalty might be raised in England. The magistrates were all persuaded that the cross in the colors was idolatrous, and the governor dissimulated by pretending that he had no colors. The ship-masters offered to lend him theirs, and this was accepted as a compromise with the consciences of the authorities, they arguing that, as the fort was the King's, the colors might be displayed there at his peril. At the request of the General Court, the Rev. John cotton (q. v.) drew up the first code of laws of Massachusetts. They were taken entirely from the Old Testament. It was found that they were not adapted to a state of society so different from that of the Hebrews in the time of Moses, and Rev. Nathaniel Ward, who was familiar with the Roman as well as the Jewish laws, drew up a code which was substituted for Cotton's in 1641. The first article of this code provided that the rights of person and property vested in the citizen should be i
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Connecticut, (search)
toughton, with a Massachusetts company, pursues along Long Island Sound. With Sassacus, their sachem, the Pequods take shelter in a swamp near Fairfield, and after another severe fight surrender, but their sachem and a few followers escape......July 13, 1637 [These fled to the Mohawks, who treacherously murdered them. The prisoners were sold into slavery or incorporated with other tribes. There remained not a sannup nor a squaw, not a warrior nor a child. ] the Hector lands at Boston Rev. John Davenport, Theophilus Eaton, and Edward Hopkins......July 26, 1637 Mr. Eaton and others explore the lands and harbors of Connecticut on the seacoast, and select Quinipiack (now New Haven) for a settlement in the autumn of......1637 Rev. John Davenport, Mr. Eaton, and others sail from Boston and arrive at Quinipiack about the middle of......April, 1638 Gloomy prospects of the colonists. Great earthquake......June 1, 1638 Colonists purchase land in and about New Haven of the I
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oregon, (search)
hirty-one days, until relieved by two companies under Colonel Buchanan......March, 1856 Troops under Capt. A. J. Smith attacked at the Meadows, on the Rogue River, where the Indians had agreed to meet and give up their arms, by Indians under Chief John, May 27; they are rescued by Captain Augur......May 28, 1856 Chief John surrenders......June 29, 1856 Convention assembles at Albany, and organizes the Free-State Republican party of Oregon......Feb. 11, 1857 Oregon constitutional convChief John surrenders......June 29, 1856 Convention assembles at Albany, and organizes the Free-State Republican party of Oregon......Feb. 11, 1857 Oregon constitutional convention assembles at Salem, Aug. 17; completes its labors, Sept. 18; constitution ratified by the people; majority in favor of adoption, 3,980; against slavery, 5,082; against free negroes, 7,559......Nov. 9, 1857 Coal discovered at Coos Bay, near Empire City, 1853, and mines discovered by James Aiken at Newport and Eastport, opened......1858 State legislature meets, July 5, and Governor Whiteaker is inaugurated......July 8, 1858 Act admitting Oregon signed by the President......Feb. 14,