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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navy of the United States (search)
in active operation until the autumn of 1779, when a board of admiralty was established, composed of three commissioners not members of the Congress, and two members of that body. This board was subject in all cases to the control of the Congress. There was a secretary who performed a greater share of the actual business of the board. The headquarters of this Navy Department were at Philadelphia, then the seat of the national government. In 1781 another change took place, when Gen. Alexander McDougall, of New York, was appointed Secretary of the Marine, or Secretary of the Navy, under the old Confederation. A few months afterwards, Robert Morris, the distinguished financier of the Revolution, was appointed a general agent of marine, and an admiralty seal was adopted, composed of an escutcheon with a chevron of stripes alternate red and white, an anchor below, and a ship under full sail as a crest. On Oct. 30, 1775, Congress resolved to fit out two more vessels, one of twenty
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Orleans. (search)
his troops, there came a terrible storm of round and grape shot that scattered dead men all around him. One of the balls passed through the general's thigh, killing his horse under him. Pakenham was caught in the arms of his faithful aid, Captain McDougall. He was conveyed to the rear in a dying condition, and expired in the arms of McDougall under a live-oak-tree. General Gibbs was also mortally wounded, and died the next day. Keane, shot in the neck, was compelled to leave the field, and McDougall under a live-oak-tree. General Gibbs was also mortally wounded, and died the next day. Keane, shot in the neck, was compelled to leave the field, and the command devolved on Major Wilkinson, the officer of highest grade in the saddle. His discomfited troops fell back, and the whole army fled in disorder. While these events were occurring on the right, nearly 1,000 men under the active Colonel Rennie had pushed rapidly forward near the river in two columns, and, driving in the American pickets, took possession of the unfinished redoubt on Jackson's extreme right. They did not hold it long. Patterson's battery greatly annoyed Rennie's co
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York City (search)
Sons of Liberty. In that House, where the leaven of Toryism was then working, the handbill was pronounced an infamous and scandalous libel, and a reward was offered for the author. The frightened printer of the handbill gave the name of Alexander McDougall (afterwards General McDougall). He was indicted for libel, and imprisoned fourteen weeks, when he gave bail. He was arraigned, and for the nature of his answer to the indictment (months afterwards ) was again imprisoned, and treated by General McDougall). He was indicted for libel, and imprisoned fourteen weeks, when he gave bail. He was arraigned, and for the nature of his answer to the indictment (months afterwards ) was again imprisoned, and treated by the patriots as a martyr. In February, 1771, he was released, and this was the end of the drama in the Fields begun in December, 1769. The conservative republicans of New York, alarmed by the bold movements of Plan of the Northern part of the City of New York in 1775. the more radical Sons of Liberty, appointed a grand committee of fifty-one, as true representatives of public sentiment. sign They repudiated a message sent to Boston (May 14, 1774) by the Sons of Liberty, recommending the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Newburg addresses, the (search)
Newburg addresses, the The Continental army was cantoned in huts near Newburg, N. Y., in the winter and spring of 1783, while negotiations for peace were in progress. Washington's headquarters were in the Hasbrouck House, in Newburg. In the latter part of the winter the discontent in the army on account of the arrears in their pay, which had existed a long time, was more formidable than ever. In December previous the officers had sent a memorial to the Congress, by the hands of General McDougall, the head of a committee, asking for a satisfactory adjustment of all the matters which were causing wide-spread discontent. Congress was almost powerless to move satisfactorily in the matter. On March 11, a well-written address was circulated through the American camp, which, in The Temple, Newburg. effect, advised the army to take matters into their own hands, and to make demonstrations that should arouse the fears of the people and of the Congress, and thereby obtain justice for