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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Algonquian, or Algonkian, Indians , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bradstreet , John , 1711 -1774 (search)
Buffalo,
City, port of entry and county seat of Erie county, N. Y.; at the eastern extremity of Lake Erie and the western extremity of the Erie Canal; has extensive lake commerce with all western points, large live-stock and grain trade, and important manufactures; population in 1890, 255,664; in 1900, 352,387.
General Riall, with his regulars and Indians, recrossed from Lewiston (see Niagara, Fort), when his forces had returned from the desolation of the New York frontier.
Full licens oceeded to plunder, destroy, and slaughter.
Only four buildings were
A view of Buffalo's waterfront to-day. left standing in the village.
At Black Rock only a single building escaped the flames.
Four vessels which had done good service on Lake Erie — the Ariel, Little Belt, Chippewa, and Trippe--were burned; and so were completed the measures of retaliation for the burning of Newark.
Six villages, many isolated country-houses, and four vessels were consumed, and the butchery of many inno
Burley, Bennett,
G., naval officer; served in the Confederate navy.
On Sept. 19, 1864, with other Confederates, he seized the Philo Parsons, a steamer on Lake Erie, and afterwards another steamer.
the Island Queen, with which his party intended to capture the United States gunboat Michigan and release the Confederate prisoners on Johnson's Island; but the Michigan captured the whole party.
the Island Queen was sunk and the Philo Parsons abandoned.
Burley was placed on trial for extradition, and after considerable diplomatic correspondence with the British government was surrendered to the United States authorities for punishment.
The Confederate government, under the plea of belligerent rights, endeavored to secure his release or exchange, but without success.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Champlin , Stephen 1789 - (search)
Champlin, Stephen 1789-
Naval officer; born in South Kingston, R. I., Nov. 17, 1789; went to sea when sixteen years old, and commanded a ship at twenty-two.
In May, 1812, he was appointed sailing-master in the navy, and was first in command of a gunboat under Perry, at Newport, R. I., and was in service on Lake Ontario in the attacks on Little York (Toronto) and Fort George, in 1813.
He joined Perry on Lake Erie, and commanded the sloop-of-war Scorpion in the battle on Sept. 10, 1813, firing the first and last gun in that action.
He was the last surviving officer of that engagement.
In the following spring, while blockading Mackinaw with the Tigress, he was attacked in the night by an overwhelming force, severely wounded, and made prisoner.
His wound troubled him until his death, and he was disabled for any active service forever afterwards.
He died in Buffalo, N. Y., Feb.