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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 14 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dieskau, Ludwig August, Baron, 1701-1757 (search)
Dieskau, Ludwig August, Baron, 1701-1757 Military officer; born in Saxony in 1701; was lieutenant-colonel of cavalry under Marshal Saxe, and was made brigadier-general of infantry in 1748, and commander of Brest. In 1755 he was sent to Canada with the rank of major-general; and in an attack upon the fortified encampment of Gen. William Johnson at the head of Lake George (Sept. 8, 1755) he was so severely wounded that he died in Surenne, near Paris, Sept. 8, 1757.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lewis, Meriwether (search)
wever, he failed. I then proposed to him to go by land to Kamchatka, cross in some of the Russian vessels to Nootka Sound, fall down into the latitude of the Missouri, and penetrate to, and through, that to the United States. He eagerly seized the idea, and only asked to be assured of the permission of the Russian government. I interested in obtaining that M. de Simoulin, minister plenipotentiary of the Empress at Paris, but more especially the Baron de Grimm, minister plenipotentiary of Saxe-Gotha, her more special agent and correspondent there in matters not immediately diplomatic. Her permission was obtained, and an assurance of protection while the course of the voyage should be through her territories. Ledyard set out from Paris, and arrived at St. Petersburg after the Empress had left that place to pass the winter, I think, at Moscow. His finances not permitting him to make unnecessary stay at St. Petersburg, he left it with a passport from one of the ministers, and at
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Saxe, John Godfrey 1816-1887 (search)
Saxe, John Godfrey 1816-1887 Author; born in Highgate, Vt., June 2, 1816; graduated at Middlebury College in 1839; admitted to the bar in St. Albans, and practised in Franklin county in 1843-50; was editor of the Burlington Sentinel in 1850-56; attorney for Vermont; Democratic candidate for governor in 1859 and again in 1860; and was the author of Progress; The money King; Clever stories of many Nations, and several volumes of humorous poems. He died in Albany, N. Y., March 31, 1887.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
th Congress adjourns......March 3, 1887 Henry Ward Beecher, stricken with apoplexy, March 2, dies in Brooklyn......March 8, 1887 James B. Eads, engineer, born 1820, dies at Nassau, N. P.......March 8, 1887 Inter-State commerce commission appointed by the President......March 22, 1887 Transatlantic yacht race from Sandy Hook to Queenstown, between the Coronet and Dauntless, won by the former in 14 days, 19 hours, 3 minutes, 14 seconds, sailing 2,934 miles......March 27, 1887 John G. Saxe, poet, born 1816, dies in Albany, N. Y.......March 31, 1887 Body of Abraham Lincoln, carefully guarded since an effort to steal it from the sarcophagus of the Lincoln monument, Springfield, Ill., made in 1876, is buried in a grave dug in the crypt and covered with six feet of cement, the sarcophagus being replaced......April 14, 1887 Monument to James A. Garfield unveiled in Washington, D. C.......May 12, 1887 Fire in horse-car barns, New York City; 1,200 horses suffocated......M