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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 9 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Army. (search)
y-three years of age. He left Philadelphia for Cambridge a week later, where he arrived on July 2; and at about nine o'clock on the morning of the 3d, standing in the shade of an elm-tree in Cambridge, he formally assumed the command of the army, then numbering about 16,000 men, all New-Englanders. The following were appointed his assistants: Artemas Ward, Charles Lee, Philip Schuyler, and Israel Putnam, major-generals; and Seth Pomeroy, Richard Montgomery, David Wooster, William Heath, Joseph Spencer, John Thomas, John Sullivan, and Nathaniel Greene, brigader-generals. Horatio Gates was appointed as adjutant-general. The pay of a major-general was fixed at $166 a month; of a brigadier-general, $125; of the adjutant-general, $125; commissary-general of stores and provisions, $80; quartermaster-general, $80; deputy quartermaster-general, $40: paymaster-general, $100; deputy paymaster-general, $50; chief-engineer, $60; assistant engineer, $20; aide-de-camp, $33; secretary to the gener
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bunker Hill, battle of. (search)
ander-in-chief of this New England army. The Americans had thrown up only a few breastworks — a small redoubt at Roxbury, and some breastworks at the foot of Prospect Hill, in Cambridge. The right wing of the besieging army, under Gen. John Thomas, was at Roxbury, consisting of 4,000 Massachusetts troops, four artillery companies, a few fieldpieces, and some heavy cannon. The Rhode Island forces were at Jamaica Plain, under General Greene, with a regiment of Connecticut troops under General Spencer. General Ward commanded the left wing at Cambridge. The Connecticut and New Hampshire troops were in the vicinity. It was made known to the committee of safety that General Gage had fixed upon the night of the 18th of June to sally out and take possession of and fortify Bunker Hill (an elevation not far from Charlestown) ; also Dorchester Heights, south of Boston. Both of these points would command the town. The eager provincials determined to anticipate this movement, and the Mas
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spencer, Joseph 1714- (search)
Spencer, Joseph 1714- Military officer; born in East Haddam, Conn., in 1714; served as a lieutenant-colonel in the French and Indian War, having previously held the office of probate judge. In 1766 he was a member of the governor's council, and in June, 1775, Congress appointed him one of the brigadier-generals of the Continental army. In August, 1776, he was promoted to major-general. He resigned in June, 1778, and the next year was elected to Congress. In 1780 he was elected to the State council, and held that place by annual election, until his death in East Haddam, Jan. 13, 1789.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
ce, May 1, 1776; abjures allegiance to the British crown......May, 1776 Declaration of Independence celebrated in Rhode Island, which the Assembly names The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ......July, 1776 William Ellery and Stephen Hopkins, representing Rhode Island, sign the Declaration of Independence......1776 Eight thousand British troops land and take possession of Rhode Island......Nov. 28, 1776 Gen. John Sullivan, appointed by Washington to succeed Gen. Joseph Spencer in command in Rhode Island, arrives at Providence......April 17, 1777 Col. William Barton, of Providence, with forty men, guided by a negro, Quako Honeyman, captures Gen. Richard Prescott at his quarters, about 5 miles from Newport......July 10, 1777 [Prescott is afterwards (May, 1778) exchanged for Gen. Charles Lee, captured by the British in New Jersey, December, 1776.] Articles of Confederation adopted by Rhode Island......Feb. 9, 1778 British destroy seventy flat-botto
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tennessee, (search)
onveyance to Charles Robertson executed......March 19, 1775 Watauga settlers march against advancing Cherokees, and disperse them in a battle near Long Island Fort......July 20, 1776 Cherokees under old Abraham attack the fort at Watauga, but are repulsed......July 21, 1776 Forces under Col. William Christian destroy the Cherokee towns in east Tennessee......1776 Washington county, including all of Tennessee, created by law of North Carolina......November, 1777 Richard Hogan, Spencer, Holliday, and others come from Kentucky and begin a plantation near Bledsoe's Lick......1778 Capt. James Robertson and others from Watauga cross the Cumberland Mountains, pitch their tents near French Lick, and plant a field of corn where Nashville now stands......1779 Eleven Chickamauga Indian towns destroyed by troops under Isaac Shelby, who left Big Creek, near the site of Rogersville......April 10, 1779 Jonesboro laid off and established as the seat of justice for Washington c