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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gwin, William McKendree 1805-1885 (search)
called to draw up a constitution. In December he became a United States Senator, and during his term secured a survey of the Pacific coast, a mint in San Francisco, a navy-yard (Mare Island), and got a bill passed for the establishment of a line of steamers between San Francisco, Japan, and China. He was re-elected, but when the Civil War began was accused of disloyalty, arrested, and imprisoned till 1863, when he was released. He interested the Emperor of France in a plan to colonize Sonora, Mexico, with Confederates. It is alleged that the French minister of foreign affairs encouraged him to draft a scheme for the colony, which, after meeting the approbation of the Emperor, was given into the hands of Emperor Maximilian. After the latter had been in Mexico two years, Dr. Gwin also went there, but received no promises of support from Maximilian in his colonization plans. Returning to France in 1865 he again laid the matter before Napoleon, at whose solicitation he returned to Me
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
search of Sir John Franklin......May 30, 1853 Koszta affair, at Smyrna, Turkey......June 21, 1853 Com. M. C. Perry, a brother of Oliver Hazard Perry, with a fleet of seven vessels, proceeds to Japan with a letter from President Fillmore to the tycoon, soliciting a treaty. Commodore Perry arrives at the bay of Yedo......July 14, 1853 World's Fair, Crystal Palace, opening at New York City; President Pierce present......July 14, 1853 William Walker's filibustering expedition to Sonora, Mexico......July, 1853 Thirty-third Congress, first session, assembles......Dec. 5, 1853 James Gadsden, of South Carolina, minister to Mexico, by treaty purchases her territory south of the Gila River, now known as the Gadsden purchase, and included in Arizona, containing 45,535 square miles, for $10,000,000. Treaty and purchase approved......Dec. 30, 1853 Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, introduces a bill in the Senate, organizing the Territory of Nebraska......Jan. 4, 1854 A. Di