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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet, 1722-1824 (search)
Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet, 1722-1824 Military officer; born in England, of French ancestry, in 1722; educated for the army at the Royal Military College at Woolwich, and, as lieutenant, came to America in 1756, and raising 300 recruits in Pennsylvania and Maryland, formed them into a corps of field-artillery. He distinguished himself as an engineer in the siege of Louisburg (q. v.)and was aide-de-camp to Wolfe when he fell at Quebec, that general dying in Des Barres's arms. He was active in the retaking of Newfoundland in 1762, and for ten years afterwards he was employed in a coast survey of Nova Scotia. He prepared charts of the North American coasts in 1775 for Earl Howe, and in 1777 he published The Atlantic Neptune, in two large folios. He was made governor of Cape Breton, with the military command of Prince Edward's Island, in 1784, and in 1804, being then about eighty-two years of age, he was made lieutenant-governor of Prince Edward's Island. He died in Hal
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lee, the (search)
Lee, the Early in 1775, Washington conceived that the readiest way to obtain supplies for the army was the fitting-out of armed vessels for intercepting those sent from England to Boston. He caused six armed schooners to be prepared for this purpose, which cruised off the New England coasts. One of these, the Lee, Captain Manley, captured, Nov. 29, 1775, the brig Nancy, an ordnance vessel from Woolwich, containing a large brass mortar, several pieces of brass cannon, a large quantity of small-arms and ammunition, and an abundance of things for the use of camps and artillery. Within ten days afterwards the Lee captured three British store-ships and a brig from Antigua laden with rum. In less than five days after the last-mentioned capture several other store-ships fell into the hands of Manley, and so the Continental army was supplied with materials intended for the British army in Boston.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mortar, (search)
Mortar, A short cannon with a large bore and short chamber for throwing bombs; said to have been used at Naples in 1435, and first made in England in 1543. On Oct. 19, 1857, a colossal mortar, constructed by Robert Mallet, was tried at Woolwich, England; with a charge of 70 pounds it threw a shell weighing 2.550 pounds 1 1/2 miles horizontally, and about 3/4 of a mile in height.