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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , John Quincy , 1767 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cottineau , Denis Nicholas 1746 -1798 (search)
Cottineau, Denis Nicholas 1746-1798
Naval officer; born in Nantes, France, in 1746; became a lieutenant in the French navy; and in the battle between the American squadron under Paul Jones and the British fleet under Sir Richard Pearson, Sept. 23, 1779, commanded the American ship Pallas.
Cottineau is mentioned in high terms by James Fenimore Cooper in his History of the Navy of the United States.
He died in Savannah, Ga., Nov. 29, 1798.
cotton, John
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), De Lancey , ÉTienne 1663 -1741 (search)
De Lancey, ÉTienne 1663-1741
Merchant; born in Caen, France, Oct. 24, 1663; fled to Holland on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes; and went thence to England and became a British subject.
He landed in New York, June 7, 1686; became a merchant and amassed a large fortune; and was at all times a publicspirited citizen.
In 1700 he built the De Lancey house, which subsequently became known as the Queen's head and Fraunce's Tavern.
In the large room, originally Mrs. De Lancey's drawing-room, Washington bade farewell to the officers of the Army of the Revolution.
He died in New York City, Nov. 18, 1741
Edict of Nantes, the,
An edict promulgated by Henry IV.
of France, which gave toleration to the Protestants in feuds, civil and religious, and ended the religious wars of the country.
It was published April 13, 1598, and was confirmed by Louis XIII.
in 1610, after the murder of his father; also by Louis XIV.
in 1652; but it was revoked by him, Oct. 22, 1685.
It was a great state blunder, for it deprived France of 500,000 of her best citizens, who fled into Germany, England, and America, and gave those countries the riches that flow from industry, skill, and sobriety.
They took with them to England the art of silk-weaving, and so gave France an important rival in that branch of industry.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Everett , Edward , 1794 -1865 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Franklin , Benjamin 1706 -1790 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huguenots. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lee , William 1737 -1795 (search)
Lee, William 1737-1795
Diplomatist; born in Stratford, Va., in 1737: brother of Richard Henry and Arthur; was agent for Virginia in London, and became a merchant there.
The city of London being overwhelmingly Whig in politics, William Lee was elected sheriff of that city and Middlesex county in 1773.
In 1775 he was chosen alderman, but on the breaking out of the war in America retired to France.
Congress appointed him commercial agent at Nantes at the beginning of 1777, and he was afterwards American minister at The Hague. Mr. Lee was also agent in Berlin and Vienna, but was recalled in 1779.
In 1778 Jan de Neufville, an Amsterdam merchant, procured a loan to the Americans from Holland, through his house, and, to negotiate for it, gained permission of the burgomasters of Amsterdam to meet Lee at Aix-la-Chapelle.
There they arranged terms for a commercial convention proper to be entered into between the two republics.
When Lee communicated this project to the American commis
Nantes, Edict of
See Edict of Nantes.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Reprisal, the (search)
Reprisal, the
The ship that carried Franklin to France, having replenished in the port of Nantes, cruised off the French coast and captured several prizes from the English.
The American privateers were permitted to enter French ports in cases of extreme emergency, and there to receive supplies only sufficient for a voyage to their own ports; but the Reprisal continued to cruise off the French coast after leaving port, and captured the English royal packet between Falmouth and Lisbon.
With this and five other prizes, she entered the harbor of L'Orient, the captain saying he intended to send them to America.
Stormont, the English ambassador to Paris, hurried to Vergennes to demand that the captain, with his crews, cargoes, and ships, should be given up. You have come too late, said the minister; orders have already been sent that the American ship and her prizes must immediately put to sea.
the Reprisal continued to cruise in European waters until captured in the summer of 1777.