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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), St. Louis, (search)
0, 575,238. St. Louis received its name from Pierre Ligueste Laclede in 1764, when he established it as a post of the Louisiana Fur Company. Five years later Spanish troops, under Captain Rios, took possession (Aug. 11, 1768), but exercised no civil functions pending the arrival of Don Pedro Piernas, who assumed the government, May 20, 1770. British troops and Indian allies attacked the city May 26, 1780, but were repulsed. The first territorial General Assembly met at the house of Joseph Robidoux, Dec. 7, 1812. Louisiana purchase Centennial. In 1900 it was proposed to hold a World's Fair in St. Louis, Mo., in 1903, to commeinorate the acquisition of Louisiana by President Jefferson. Congress appropriated $5,000,000 in aid of the enterprise upon condition that the city of St. Louis expend $10,000,000 for the same purpose. The government appropriation was to be treated as a loan, and was to be repaid from the money earned by the exposition. The city of St. Louis authoriz
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
ark by which the Great and Little Osage tribes cede to the United States 33,173,383 acres of land in Missouri and 14,830,432 acres in Arkansas......Nov. 10, 1808 Town of St. Louis incorporated......Nov. 9, 1809 Town of New Madrid destroyed by an earthquake......Dec. 16, 1811 Act of Congress changing the name to the Territory of Missouri approved......June 4, 1812 Edward Hempstead first delegate to Congress......November, 1812 First General Assembly meets in the house of Joseph Robidoux, between Walnut and Elm streets, St. Louis......Dec. 7, 1812 United States Congress confirms to Daniel Boone 833 acres of land in the Femme Osage district......Feb. 10, 1814 Capt. James Callaway, with fifteen men, returning to the settlement of Loutre Island with some horses they had recovered from the Sac and Fox Indians, are attacked by the Indians in ambush and Captain Callaway and three of his men are killed......March 7, 1815 By act of Congress the election of the council