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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Diplomatic service. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harrison , William Henry 1773 -1812 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hurlbut , Stephen Augustus 1815 - (search)
Hurlbut, Stephen Augustus 1815-
Military officer; born in Charleston, S. C., Nov. 29, 1815; became a lawyer; served in the Florida War; and in 1845 settled in Illinois.
He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in May, 1861; commanded a division at the battle of Shiloh; and was made major-general in 1862.
He served under Sherman in Mississippi; succeeded Banks in command of the Department of the Gulf; in 1869-72 was minister to Colombia, South America; and from 1881 till his death, March 27, 1882, was minister to Peru.
Panama, Congress at
In 1823 Simon Bolivar, the liberator of Colombia, South America, and then President of that republic, invited the governments of Mexico, Peru, Chile, and Buenos Ayres to unite with him in forming a general congress at Panama.
Arrangements to that effect were made, but the congress was not held until July, 1826.
The object was to settle upon some line of policy having the force of international law respecting the rights of those republics, and to adopt measures for preventing further colonization by European powers on the American continent.
They fully accepted the Monroe doctrine (see Monroe, James). In the spring of 1825 the United States was invited to send commissioners to the congress.
These were appointed early in 1826, and appeared at the congress early in July; but its results were not important to any of the parties concerned.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Strain , Isaac G. 1821 -1857 (search)
Strain, Isaac G. 1821-1857
Naval officer; born in Roxbury, Pa., March 4, 1821.
While yet a midshipman (1845), he led a small party to explore the interior of Brazil, and in 1848 explored the peninsula of California.
In 1849 he crossed South America from Valparaiso to Buenos Ayres, and wrote an account of the journey, entitled The Cordillera and Pampa, Mountain and plain: sketches of a journey in Chile and the Argentine provinces.
In 1850 he was assigned to the Mexican boundary commission, and afterwards (1854) led a famous expedition across the Isthmus of Darien, for an account of which see Harper's magazine, 1856-57.
In 1856, in the steamer Arctic, Lieutenant Strain ascertained by soundings the practicability of laying an ocean telegraphic cable between America and Europe.
He died in Aspinwall, Colombia, May 14, 1857.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Treaties. (search)