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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 21 : capture of New Orleans.--first attack on Vicksburg by Farragut 's fleet and mortar flotilla.--junction of flag-officers Farragut and Davis above Vicksburg .--ram Arkansas . (search)
Ghent, treaty of
The treaty between the United States and Great Britain, which terminated the War of 1812.
The American commissioners were John Quincy Adams, James Bayard, Henry Clay, Jonathan Russell, and Albert Gallatin; the British commissioners were Lord Gambier, Henry Goulburn, and William Adams.
The American commissioners assembled in the city of Ghent, Belgium, in July, 1814; the British commissioners early in the following month.
The terms of the treaty were concluded Dec. 24, following, and the ratifications were exchanged Feb. 17, 1815.
While the negotiations were in progress the leading citizens of Ghent took great interest in the matter.
Their sympathies were with the Americans, and they mingled their rejoicings with the commissioners when the work was done.
On Oct. 27 the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts at Ghent invited the American commissioners to attend their exercises, when they were all elected honorary members of the academy.
A sumptuous dinner was give
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Hadley, attack on.
At Hadley, on the Connecticut River, the Indians in the absence of the little garrison, attempted the destruction of life and property, Sept. 1, 1675.
The inhabitants were in the meeting-house, it being fast-day.
The men seized their arms to defend themselves, their wives, and their little ones from the savages.
Just as the latter seemed about to strike a destructive blow, and the men, unskilled in military affairs, felt themselves almost powerless, a man with a long, flowing white beard and military air suddenly appeared, drew his sword, and, putting himself at the head of the armed men, filled them with courage and led them to victory.
The Indians fell back and fled, when the mysterious leader as suddenly disappeared, none knowing whence he came or whither he went.
It was Col. William Goffe (q. v.), the regicide, who was then concealed in the house of Mr. Russell, at Hadley.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), entry impressment (search)
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Russell, Jonathan 1771-1832
Diplomatist; born in Providence, R. I., in 1771; graduated at Brown University in 1791; studied law; but became a merchant, and his taste led him into political life, though he never sought office.
He was one of the commissioners who negotiated the treaty at Ghent, in 1814; and after that was United States minister at Stockholm, Sweden, for several years.
On his return to the United States, he settled at Mendon, Mass., which district he represented in Congress in 1821-23.
Although he was a forcible and elegant writer, little is known of his literary productions excepting an oration delivered in Providence on July 4, 1800, and his published correspondence while in Europe.
He died in Milton, Mass., Feb. 19, 1832.
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