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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Flag, National. (search)
aptured Fort Nassau, New Providence, Bahama Islands. The captors were menaced by the people, when the stars and stripes were nailed to the flagstaff in defiance. John Singleton Copley, the American-born painter, in London, claimed to be the first to display the stars and stripes in Great Britain. On the day when George III. acknowledged the independence of the United States, Dec. 5, 1782, he painted the flag of the United States in the background of a portrait of Elkanah Watson. To Captain Mooers, of the whaling-ship Bedford, of Nantucket, is doubtless due the honor of first The National flag. displaying the national flag in a port of Great Britain. He arrived in the Downs, with it flying at the fore, Feb. 3, 1783. That flag was first carried to the East Indian seas in the Enterprise (an Albanybuilt vessel), Capt. Stewart Dean, in 1785. When Vermont and Kentucky were added to the union of States the flag was altered. By an act of Congress (Jan. 13, 1794) the number of the s
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mooers, Benjamin 1758-1838 (search)
Mooers, Benjamin 1758-1838 Military officer; born in Haverhill, Mass., April 1, 1758; was in the Continental army; at the surrender of Burgoyne; and served as lieutenant in Hazen's regiment to the end of the war. In 1783 he settled in the wilderness on the western shore of Lake Champlain, near the present Plattsburg. He was eight years in the New York legislature, and, as major-general of militia, commanded that body of soldiers in the battle of Plattsburg (q. v.) in 1814. He died in Plattsburg, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1838.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Plattsburg, battles at (search)
gion. He had completed redoubts and block-houses at Plattsburg, to prevent the invaders crossing the Saranac River. The militia were under the command of Gen. Benjamin Mooers. He had been very active in gathering them, and when Prevost advanced he was at the head of about 5,000 men. Prevost arrived at Champlain on Sept. 3, and g on to the Beekmantown road. Informed of this, Macomb sent Maj. John E. Wool (who volunteered for the purpose), with some regulars, to support the militia under Mooers, who was out in that direction, and to oppose the advance of the foe. His force was 280 strong. At Beekmantown he encountered Prevost's advanced guard. The miorce their way across the Saranac at two places, but after a short and desperate struggle they were repulsed by the gallant regulars and militia led by Macomb and Mooers. Some of the British had crossed the stream near the site of the upper bridge, and the Americans were driving them back, when tidings came that the British fleet
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
ient......1812 George Clinton, first governor of New York, dies at Washington, D. C.......April 20, 1812 Hamilton College, at Clinton, Oneida county, established......1812 Detached militia of New York arranged by the War Department in two divisions and eight brigades......April 21, 1812 War declared against Great Britain by the United States......June 20, 1812 Stephen Van Rensselaer (the patroon), of Albany, commissioned major-general and assigned to the 1st Division, and Benjamin Mooers, of Plattsburg, to the 2d......1812 British attack Sackett's Harbor and are repulsed......July 29, 1812 Lieut. J. D. Elliott captures the Caledonia and Detroit, British vessels anchored near Fort Erie, opposite Buffalo......Oct. 8, 1812 [Congress votes Lieutenant Elliott a sword for this exploit.] Battle of Queenston, Upper Canada, and death of Sir Isaac Brock, governor of Upper Canada......Oct. 12-13, 1812 [The Americans, at first successful, are finally beaten.] Gen
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walworth, Reuben Hyde 1788-1867 (search)
Walworth, Reuben Hyde 1788-1867 Jurist; born in Bozrah, Conn., Oct. 26, 1788; admitted to the bar in 1809 and began practice in Plattsburg, N. Y. During the British invasion of Plattsburg, in September, 1814, he was aide to Gen. Benjamin Mooers, by whom he was assigned to view the naval fight from the shore and to report the resuits. He held a seat in Congress in 1821-23; was judge of the fourth judicial district of New York in 1823-28; and chancellor of New York State in 1828-48. In the latter year the court of chancery was abolished by the adoption of the new constitution. He published Rules and orders of the New York Court of Chancery, and Hyde genealogy (2 volumes). He died in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Nov. 27, 1867. His son, Mansfield Tracy, born in Albany, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1830, graduated at Union College in 1849 and at the Harvard Law School in 1852; was admitted to the bar in 1855, but soon abandoned law and devoted himself to literature. He was the author of Life of