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Contrecoeur 1730-
Military officer; born in France about 1730; came to America as an officer in the French army; and in 1754 went up the Alleghany River with 1,000 men to prevent the British from making settlements in the Ohio Valley, which France claimed under the treaty of Aix. The British fort on the site of Pittsburg was taken by Contrecoeur, and renamed Fort Duquesne.
When Braddock, with over 2,000 troops, advanced against it, Captain Beaujeu, who had arrived to relieve the place, routed the army of Braddock, July 9, 1755.
Although Contrecoeur remained in the fort he was wrongly given the credit of the victory, and as Beaujeu had fallen he continued in command.
To him were due the subsequent Indian atrocities.
Duquesne, Fort,
A fortification erected by the French on the site of the city of Pittsburgh., Pa., in 1754.
While Captain Trent and his company were building this fort, Captain Contrecoeur, with 1,000 Frenchmen and eighteen cannon, went down the Alleghany River in sixty bateaux and 300 canoes, took possession of the unfinished fortification, and named it Fort Duquesne, in compliment to the captaingeneral of Canada.
Lieutenant-Colonel Washington, with a small force, hurried from Cumberland to recapture it, but was made a prisoner, with about 400 men, at Fort Necessity.
In 1755 an expedition for the capture of Fort Duquesne, commanded by Gen. Edward Braddock (q. v.)marched from Will's Creek (Cumberland) on June 10, about 2,000 strong, British and provincials.
On the banks of the Monongahela Braddock was defeated and killed on July 9, and the expedition was ruined.
Washington was a lieutenant-colonel under Braddock in the expedition against Fort Duquesne, in 1755, and in that
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart , Albert Bushnell 1854 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kittanning , destruction of (search)
Kittanning, destruction of
In consequence of repeated injuries from the white people of Pennsylvania, the Delaware Indians had become bitterly hostile in 1756.
They committed many depredations, and early in September Col. John Armstrong marched against the Indian town of Kittanning, on the Alleghany River, about 45 miles northeast from Pittsburg.
He approached the village stealthily, and fell upon the Indians furiously with about 300 men at 3 A. M., Sept. 8, 1756.
The Indians refusing the quarter which was offered them, Colonel Armstrong ordered their wigwams to be set on fire.
Their leader, Captain Jacobs, and his wife and son were killed.
About forty Indians were destroyed, and eleven English prisoners were released.
Main Street, Dawson City, July, 1897.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Petroleum. (search)
Petroleum.
The early settlers around the headwaters of the Alleghany River, in Pennsylvania and New York, were acquainted with the existence of petroleum there, where it oozed out of the banks of streams.
Springs of petroleum were struck in Ohio, in 1820, where it so much interfered with soft-water wells that it was considered a nuisance.
Its real value was suspected by S. P. Hildreth, who wrote, in 1826: It affords a clear, brisk light when burned in this way [in lamps in workshops], and it will be a valuable article for lighting the street-lamps in the future cities of Ohio.
It remained unappreciated until 1859, when Messrs. Bowditch & Drake, of New Haven, Conn., bored through the rock at Titusville, on Oil Creek, Pa., and struck oil at the depth of 70 feet. They pumped 1,000 gallons a day, and so the regular boring for petroleum was begun.
From 1861 until 1876 the average daily product of all the wells was about 11,000 barrels. The total yield within that period was about
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Proces verbal, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Roebling , John Augustus 1806 -1869 (search)
Roebling, John Augustus 1806-1869
Civil engineer: born in Muhlhausen, Germany, June
John Augustus Roebling. 12, 1806; graduated at the Berlin Royal Polytechnic School in 1826; came to the United States in 1829, and settled near Pittsburg, Pa. Later he began the manufacture of iron and steel wire, which he discovered could be used with efficacy in the building of bridges.
In 1844-45 he directed the construction of a bridge over the Alleghany River at Pittsburg, in which were used the first suspension wire cables ever seen in the United States.
After successfully building several other suspension bridges he moved his wire factory to Trenton, N. J. In 1851-55 he constructed the New York Central Railroad suspension bridge across the Niagara River.
This work at the time was considered one of the wonders of the world, and was followed by the construction of other great bridges, including that between Cincinnati and Covington.
In 1868 he was appointed chief engineer of the Brookl