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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nicaragua. (search)
d there as heralds of coming power. The first formidable emigration took place in the autumn or early winter of 1854. It was alleged that the native king of the Mosquito country bordering on the Caribbean Sea had granted to two British subjects a large tract of the territory, the British having for some time been trying to get a foothold there, and having induced the half-barbarian chief to assume independence of Nicaragua. By a pretended arrangement with the British settlers there, Col. H. L. Kinney led a band of armed emigrants and proceeded to settle on the territory. The governor of Nicaragua protested against this invasion by citizens of the United States. The Nicaraguan minister at Washington called the attention of the United States government to the subject, Jan. 16, 1855, and especially to the fact of the British claim to political jurisdiction there, and urged that the United States, while asserting the Monroe doctrine as a correct political dogma, should not sanction
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
55 [This rank was immediately conferred upon Maj.-Gen. Winfield Scott.] Right of way granted to Hiram O. Alden and James Eddy for a line of telegraph from the Mississippi River to the Pacific by an act approved......Feb. 17, 1855 Thirty-third Congress adjourns......March 3, 1855 Governor Reeder, of Kansas, removed by President Pierce; Wilson Shannon, of Ohio, appointed in his place......July 28, 1855 William Walker lands in Nicaragua with 160 men......Sept. 3, 1855 Col. Henry L. Kinney made civil and military governor of Greytown, Nicaragua, by citizens......Sept. 12, 1855 Expedition in search of Dr. Kane, under Lieutenant Hartstene, U. S. N., finds at the Isle of Disco, Greenland, Kane and his companions, who had left the ship in the ice, May 17, and reached Disco, Aug. 8......Sept. 13, 1855 This expedition returns to New York City......Oct. 11, 1855 Thirty-fourth Congress, first session, assembles......Dec. 3, 1855 After a contest of nine weeks, on the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Utah, (search)
alt Lake City......May, 1861 Another convention meets, Jan. 20, finishes a constitution for the State of Deseret, Jan. 23, ratified by the people......March 3, 1862 Act of Congress passed to punish and prevent polygamy in the Territories......July 1, 1862 Mormon apostates, known as Morrisites, indicted for armed resistance to law, when summoned to surrender by the sheriff resist for three days—June 13-16, 1862—until their leader, Joseph Morris, and others are killed; tried before Judge Kinney, seven are convicted of murder in the second degree......March, 1863 Gov. James Duane Doty dies......June 13, 1865 University of Deseret at Salt Lake City, chartered 1850, organized......March 8, 1869 Gov. J. Wilson Shaffer by proclamation forbids the review of the Nauvoo Legion of 13,000 men......Sept. 15, 1870 Vernon H. Vaughan succeeds Governor Shaffer, who dies......October, 1870 Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution incorporated......Dec. 1, 1870 Companies of t
The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], Wendell Phillip's late Speech. (search)
ruined houses, broken and barricaded streets, and the general disorder, gave the town a wrecked and cast away appearance. The places which were once so fell of life were now the crumbling habitations of the dead, and active and excited revealers war groped through the ruins were like tourists searching amid the columns and under the tottering walls of Palmyria and the dead cities of the plain. The New Orleans Delta says that among the killed in the final assault at Matamoras was Col. Henry L. Kinney, of Texas, who is well known as a daring soldier and extensive speculator. Col. K. was a native of Pennsylvania, and removed to Texas in 1815. He was for many years a member of the Texas Legislature, and was, at the time of his death, one of the few surviving members of the Senate of the Republic of Texas. He made a fortune out of army contracts during the Mexican war, and was for a while connected with one of Walker's expeditions to Central America. He was killed by a ball which