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Lossing, Benson John 1813-
Historian; born in Beekman, Dutchess co., N. Y., Feb. 12, 1813.
Self-educated, a watch-maker, editor, and wood-engraver, he devoted his attention to the pictorial side of history, especially to the antiquities of his own region, the Hudson Valley.
His chief work was the Pictorial field-book of the Revolution, published in 1850-52.
He wrote also Pictorial field-books of the War of 1812 and the Civil War, an illustrated book on the Hudson, histories of the United States, historical biographies, and the Cyclopaedia of American history.
His great service was the preservation of the local color in many noted episodes of the early history.
He died near Dover Plains, N. Y., June 3, 1891.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McFingal, (search)
McFingal,
The title of a, political and historical satire, in four cantos, written by John Trumbull during the American Revolution.
McFingal is a representative of the Tory or loyalist party in that struggle, a burly New England squire, constantly engaged with Honorius, a champion of the Whigs, or rebels, as the British called the patriots.
In it all the leading Tories of the day are severely lampooned.
It is written in Hudibrastic style, and is the ablest American production of the kind.
The first canto was published in 1775; the whole work in 1782.
An edition, fully annotated by Benson J. Lossing, was published in 1881.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)