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Abbadie, M. D‘,
Royal governor: born about 1710; came to America in 1763 to take charge of a variety of business interests that King Louis XV.
had established in New Orleans, and also to exercise the authority of military commander of the province.
Owing to the sale of Louisiana to Spain, he was directed in 1764 to turn over his command to a Spanish official.
He was a man of noble impulses, had protected the Indians, caused the masters to treat their slaves more kindly, and in many ways had endeared himself to the people of the province.
The surrender of his command to those whom he regarded as enemies grieved him so seriously that he died Feb. 4, 1765.
See Louisiana; New Orlean
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , John Quincy , 1767 - (search)
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Alabama.
The soil of this State was first trodden by Europeans in 1540.
These were the followers of De Soto (q. v.). In 1702, Bienville.
the French governor of Louisiana, entered Mobile Bay, and built a fort and trading-house at the mouth of Dog River.
In 1711 the French founded Mobile, and there a colony prospered for a while.
Negro
State seal of Alabama. slaves were first brought into this colony by three French ships of war in 1721.
By the treaty of 1763 this region was transfer Lone Star.
The convention had voted against the reopening of the slave-trade, and adjourned on Jan. 30, 1861.
A week before the Secession Ordinance was adopted, volunteer troops, in accordance with an arrangement made with the governors of Louisiana and Georgia, and by order of the governor of Alabama, had seized the arsenal at Mount Vernon, about 30 miles above Mobile, and Fort Morgan, at the entrance to Mobile Harbor, about 30 miles below the city.
The Mount Vernon arsenal was captured
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Allen, Henry Watkins, 1820-
Military officer; born in Prince Edward county. Va., April 20, 1820; became a lawyer in Mississippi; and in 1842 raised a company to fight in Texas.
He settled at West Baton Rouge, La., in 1850; served in the State legislature; was in the Law School at Cambridge in 1854; and visited Europe in 1859.
He took an active part with the Confederates in the Civil War, and was at one time military governor at Jackson, Miss.
In the battle of Shiloh and at Baton Rouge he was wounded.
He was commissioned a brigadier-general in 1864, but was almost immediately elected governor of Louisiana, the duties of which he performed with great ability and wisdom.
At the close of the war he made his residence in the city of Mexico, where he established the Mexican times, which he edited until his death, April 22, 1866.
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Andrews, George Leonard, 1828-
Military officer; born in Bridgewater, Mass., Aug. 31, 1828; was graduated at West Point in 1851, entering the engineer corps.
He resigned in 1855.
In 1861 he became first lieutenant-colonel and then colonel of the 2d Massachusetts Regiment.
He was made brigadier-general in 1862, and led a brigade in Banks's expedition in Louisiana and against Port Hudson in 1863.
He assisted in the capture of Mobile, and was appointed Professor of French at West Point Feb. 27, 1871; was retired Aug. 31, 1892; and died April 4, 1899.
Arkansas,
One of the Southwestern States; discovered by De Soto in 1541, who crossed the Mississippi near the site of Helena.
It was next visited by father Marquette (q. v.) in 1673.
It was originally a part of Louisiana, purchased from the French in 1803, and so remained until 1812, when it formed a part of Missouri Territory.
It was erected into a Territory in 1819, with its present name, and remained under a territorial government until 1836, when a convention at Little Rock, its present capital, formed a State constitution.
Its first territorial legislature met at Arkansas Post in 1820.
On June 15, 1836, Arkansas was admitted into the Union as a State.
In 1861 the people of Arkansas were attached to the Union, but, unfortunately, the governor and most of the leading politicians of the State were disloyal, and no effort was spared by them to obtain the passage of an ordinance of secession.
For this purpose a State convention of delegates assembled at the capital (Litt