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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 23 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 1 : family and boyhood. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agreement of the people, (search)
Allen, Ethan, 1737-
military officer; born in Litchfield, Conn., Jan. 10, 1737.
In 1762 he was one of the proprietors of the ironworks at Salisbury, Conn. In 1766) he went to the then almost unsettled domain between the Green Mountains and Lake Champlain, where he was a bold leader of the settlers on the New Hampshire grants in their controversy with the authorities of New York.
(See New Hampshire.) During this period several pamphlets were written by Allen, in his peculiar style, which forcibly illustrated the injustice of the action of the New York authorities.
The latter declared Allen an outlaw.
and offered a reward of £ 150 for his arrest.
He defied his enemies, and persisted in his course.
Early in May, 1775, he led a few men and took the fortress of Ticonderoga.
His followers were called Green Mountain boys.
His success as a partisan caused him to be sent twice into Canada, during the latter half of 1775, to win the people over to the republican cause.
In the las
Cod fisheries.
At Fortune Bay, United States fishers set nets on Sunday, Jan. 13, 1878, contrary to local regulations; they were forcibly removed; controversy ensued.
Mr. Evarts, for the United States, sent despatch Aug. 24; correspondence, September, October; Marquis of Salisbury refused compensation; but Earl Granville granted it; £15,000 awarded by arbitration, May 28, 1881
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Corcoran , Michael 1827 - (search)
Corcoran, Michael 1827-
Military officer; born in Carrowkeel, Sligo, Ireland, Sept. 21, 1827; came to the United States in 1849, and first came into notice as colonel of the 69th New York Regiment, when the President called for troops, in 1861.
He hastened with his regiment to Washington, and was distinguished for gallantry in the battle of Bull Run, where he was wounded and made prisoner, suffering confinement in Richmond, Charleston, Columbia, and Salisbury, while kept for execution, in case the national government put to death the crews of Confederate privateers as pirates.
He was exchanged in 1862, and made a brigadier-general.
He raised an Irish Legion, served in lower Virginia and upper North Carolina, and checked the advance of the Confederates on Norfolk.
He died of injuries received from a fall from his horse, near Fairfax Court-house, Dec. 22, 1863.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Curzon , George Nathaniel 1859 - (search)
Curzon, George Nathaniel 1859-
British diplomatist; born in Kedleston, Derbyshire, Jan. 11, 1859; educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
In 1885 he was assistant private secretary to the Marquis of Salisbury, and in 1886 became a member of Parliament.
In 1891-92 he served as under-secretary of state for India; in 1895 was appointed under-secretary of state for foreign affairs; and in August, 1898, he became viceroy of India.
In the following month he was raised to the peerage, with the title of Baron Curzon of Kedleston.
In 1895 he married Mary, daughter of L. Z. Leiter, of Chicago.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Great charter (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Holley , Orville Luther 1791 -1861 (search)
Holley, Orville Luther 1791-1861
Editor; born in Salisbury, Conn., May 19, 1791; graduated at Harvard in 1813; studied law and practised in Hudson, Canandaigua, and New York City.
He was editor of the Anti-Masonic magazine, Troy Sentinel, the Ontario repository, the Albany Daily Advertiser, and the State register; was surveyor-general of the State in 1838; and author of Description of the City of New York; and Life of Franklin.
He died in Albany, N. Y., March 25, 1861.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnston , William Preston 1831 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Porter , Peter Buel 1773 -1844 (search)
Porter, Peter Buel 1773-1844
Military officer; born in Salisbury, Conn., Aug. 4, 1773; studied law, and began practice at Canandaigua, N. Y., in 1795; was a member of Congress from 1809 to 1813, and again in 1815-16.
He settled at Black Rock, near
General Porter's medal. Buffalo, where he and his brothers made large purchases of land along the Niagara River.
A leader of volunteers on the Niagara frontier, he became distinguished for his skill and bravery, and received the thanks of Congress and a gold medal.
President Madison offered him the position
Peter Buel, Porter. of commander-in-chief of the army in 1815, which he declined.
He was secretary of state of New York (1815-16), and was Secretary of War, under President John Quincy Adams, in 1828. General Porter was one of the early projectors of the Erie Canal, and one of the first board of commissioners.
He died at Niagara Falls, March 20, 1844.