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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Columbus , Christopher 1435 -1536 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Estaing , Charles Henry Theodat , Count Da , 1729 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), French domain in America . (search)
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harris , George , Lord -1829 (search)
Harris, George, Lord -1829
Military officer; born March 18, 1746; became captain in 1771, and came to America in 1775.
He was in the skirmish at Lexington and was wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill.
In the battles of Long Island, Harlem Plains, and White Plains, and in every battle in which General Howe, Sir Henry Clinton, and Earl Cornwallis, in the North, participated, until late in 1778, he was an actor.
Then he went on an expedition to the West Indies; served under Byron off Grenada in 1779; also, afterwards, in India, and in 1798 was made governor of Madras, and placed at the head of the army against Tippoo Sultan, capturing Seringapatam, for which service he received public thanks and promotion.
In 1812 he was raised to the peerage.
He died in Belmont, Kent, England, May 19, 1829.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walthall , Edward Cary 1831 -1898 (search)
Walthall, Edward Cary 1831-1898
Legislator; born in Richmond, Va., April 4, 1831; admitted to the bar in 1852 and began practice in Coffeeville, Miss.; elected attorney of the tenth Mississippi judicial district in 1856 and 1859; joined the Confederate army as lieutenant in the 15th Mississippi Infantry in 1861; promoted brigadiergeneral in December, 1862, and majorgeneral in 1864; distinguished himself in the battle of Missionary Ridge and in the action at Nashville, where he covered the retreat of Gen. John B. Hood and prevented the capture of his army by Gen. George H. Thomas.
He resumed law practice in Grenada, Miss., in 1871; was United States Senator in 1885-98, with exception of the period from January, 1894, to March, 1895.
He died in Washington, D. C., April 21, 1898.