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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 14 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 7 7 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 7 5 Browse Search
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War 6 0 Browse Search
The Venerable Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum (ed. Charles Plummer) 6 0 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 2 0 Browse Search
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) 2 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 2 0 Browse Search
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Amherst, Sir Jeffrey, 1717- (search)
Amherst, Sir Jeffrey, 1717- Military officer; born in Kent, England, Jan. 29, 1717; became an ensign in the army in 1731, and was aide to Lord Ligonier and the Duke of Cumberland. In 1756 he was promoted to major-general and given the command of the expedition against Louisburg in Sir Jeffrey Amherst. 1758, which resulted in its capture, with other French strongholds in that vicinity. In September, that year, he was appointed commander-in-chief in America, and led the troops in person, in 1759, that drove the French from Lake Champlain. The next year he captured Montreal and completed the conquest of Canada. For these acts he was rewarded with the thanks of Parliament and the Order of the Bath. In 1763 he was appointed governor of Virginia. The atrocities of the Indians in May and June of that year aroused the anger and the energies of Sir Jeffrey, and he contemplated hurling swift destruction upon the barbarians. He denounced Pontiac as the chief ringleader of mischief
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cushman, Robert 1580- (search)
Cushman, Robert 1580- A founder of the Plymouth colony; born in Kent, England, about 1580; joined the Society of the Pilgrims in Holland, and became very active. He and John Carver were appointed agents to make arrangements for the emigration of the church to America, and he was one of the number who sailed in the Speedwell, and were compelled to return on account of her unseaworthiness. Mr. Cushman remained with those who did not go in the Mayflower. He went to New Plymouth in the autumn of 1621, taking with him thirty-five other persons, and there delivered the charter to the colonists. He preached the first sermon by an ordained minister in New England on Dec. 12. On the following day he sailed for England. The vessel and cargo were captured by the French, and plundered of everything, and Cushman was detained two weeks on the French coast. On his return to London he published his sermon in New England On the sin and danger of self-love, and also an eloquent vindication
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gookin, Daniel 1612-1687 (search)
Gookin, Daniel 1612-1687 Military officer; born in Kent, England, about 1612; removed to Virginia with his father in 1621; settled in Cambridge, Mass., in 1644; became major-general of the colony in 1681. He was author of Historical collections of the Indians of Massachusetts. He died in Cambridge, Mass., March 19, 1687.
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), Henry, John 1812-1829 (search)
Henry, John 1812-1829 Naval officer; born Sept. 28, 1731; joined the British navy about 1744; was promoted captain for bravery at Mud Island, in the Delaware. He was with the British fleet which in May, 1778, destroyed the frigates Washington, Effingham, and others, besides twenty-three brigs and nine merchantmen; was promoted admiral in 1804. He died in Kent, England, Aug. 6, 1829. Adventurer; born in Ireland; became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He produced a temporary excitement in 1812 by disclosures concerning a plot for the destruction of the Union. According to his story, he purchased an estate in Vermont, near the Canada frontier, and there studied law for five years, and amused himself by writing articles against republican institutions, which he detested. These essays at length attracted the attention of the governor of Canada (Sir J. H. Craig), who invited him to Montreal, from which he sent him on a mission to Boston early in 1809. That was
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Horsmanden, Daniel 1691- (search)
Horsmanden, Daniel 1691- Jurist; born in Gouldhurst, Kent, England, in 1691. In May, 1733, he was called to the New York City council; afterwards was recorder, chief-justice, and president of the council. He published The New York conspiracy, or the history of the negro plot; and Letters to Governor Clinton.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smokeless powders. (search)
are continually experimenting with the hope of discovering some compound that will answer the many and hard tests required of it. England professes confidence in cordite, but when used in American guns it is found to erode the metal of the guns to such an extent as to shorten their lives materially. All powders that amount to anything contain more or less of nitro-glycerine. In small quantities, as in small-arm cartridges, there is no appreciable effect from erosion, but in larger quantities it is so great an element that a few discharges have been known to put guns out of service. Lyddite, which figures so extensively in the British-Boer War, is a high explosive named from a small town in Kent, England, and is composed of picric acid brought into a dense state by fusion. Picric acid is obtained by the action of nitric acid on phenol or carbolic acid. Its destructive effect in a shell is eleven times that of powder, and it kills more by air concussion than by flying fragments.