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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 2 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 2 0 Browse Search
William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)
3 Col. John Harvey, former speaker of the Assembly, calls a convention to form a provincial congress, which meets at Newbern; Harvey is chosen speaker......Aug. 25, 1774 The provincial congress decides that after Sept. 1, 1774, all use of East India tea should be prohibited; that after Nov 1, 1774, importation of African slaves should cease; and that after Jan. 1, 1775, no East India or British goods should be imported......August, 1774 Richard Caswell, Joseph Hewes, and William HooperEast India or British goods should be imported......August, 1774 Richard Caswell, Joseph Hewes, and William Hooper, delegates to the Continental Congress at Philadelphia......Sept. 5, 1774 Committee of safety orders the return of a cargo of tea which had been shipped to William Hill; committee appointed......Nov. 23, 1774 Governor Martin by proclamation denounces the Provincial Congress as tending to introduce disorder and anarchy ......March 1, 1775 Governor Martin dissolves the Assembly after a session of four days, ending the royal rule in the State......April 8, 1775 Delegates from Mecklenbu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vasco da Gama 1469-1524 (search)
Vasco da Gama 1469-1524 Navigator; born in Sines, Portugal, presumably about 1469; was appointed by Emanuel of Portugal commander of an expedition to find an ocean route to the East Indies. He sailed from Lisbon in July, 1497, and reached Calicut in the following November, after having sailed around the Cape of Good Hope; returned to Lisbon in 1499; made a second voyage to India in 1502-3; and was appointed viceroy there in the year 1524. He died in Cochin, India, Dec. 24, 1524.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Warrington, Lewis 1782-1851 (search)
Warrington, Lewis 1782-1851 Naval officer; born in Williamsburg, Va., Nov. 3, 1782; graduated at the College of William and Mary Lewis Warrington. in 1798, and entered the navy in 1800. He was an officer of the Chesapeake at the time of her encounter with the Leopard (see Chesapeake, the). For his capture of the Épervier (Peacock, the) Congress gave him the thanks of the nation and a gold medal. In June, 1815, while cruising in the East India waters, he captured the Nautilus, the last prize of the war. He died in Washington, D. C., Oct. 12, 1851
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, George (search)
l state before I conclude; and we may perhaps rejoice that the people have been ripened by misfortune for the reception of a good government. They are emerging from the gulf of dissipation and debt, into which they had precipitated themselves at the close of the war. Economy and industry are evidently gaining ground. Not only agriculture, but even manufactures are much more attended to than formerly. Notwithstanding the shackles under which our trade in general labours, commerce to the East Indies is prosecuted with considerable success. Salted provisions and other produce (particularly from Massachusetts) have found an advantageous market there. The voyages are so much shorter, and the vessels are navigated at so much less expense, that we may hope to rival and supply (at least through the West Indies) some part of Europe with commodities from thence. This year the exports from Massachusetts have amounted to a great deal more than their imports. I wish this was the case everyw
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whiteside, Peter 1752-1828 (search)
Whiteside, Peter 1752-1828 Patriot; born in Puten, England, in 1752; settled in Philadelphia, where he became a prosperous merchant; advanced much of his wealth during the Revolutionary War to provide shoes for the American soldiers; and was sent by Washington to France to arrange for better trading facilities with the American colonies. In conjunction with his brother, William Whiteside, and Robert Morris, he sent to the East Indies the first merchant vessel from the Western Hemisphere to trade there. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., in December, 1828.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Yale, Elihu 1649-1721 (search)
Yale, Elihu 1649-1721 Philanthropist; born in New Haven, Conn., April 5, 1649; was educated in England. About 1678 he went to the East Indies where he remained twenty years and amassed a large estate. He was governor of Fort George there from 1687 to 1692. Mr. Yale married a native of the East Indies, by whom he had three daughters. He passed his latter days in England, where he was made governor of the East India Company and a fellow of the Royal Society. He remembered his native cou of Fort George there from 1687 to 1692. Mr. Yale married a native of the East Indies, by whom he had three daughters. He passed his latter days in England, where he was made governor of the East India Company and a fellow of the Royal Society. He remembered his native country with affection, and when the school that grew into a college was founded he gave donations to it amounting in the aggregate to about $2,000. It was given the name of Yale in his honor. He died in London, July 8, 1721.
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