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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harmar, Josiah 1753-1813 (search)
r-inchief of the army of the United States, and had charge of an expedition against the Miami Indians in the fall of 1790, but was defeated. Harmar resigned his commission in January, 1792, and was made adjutant-general of Pennsylvania in 1793, in which post he was active in furnishing Pennsylvania troops for Wayne's campaign in 1793-94. He died in Philadelphia, Aug. 20, 1813. At the time of his expedition against the Indians, the British, in violation of the treaty of 1783, still held Detroit and ether Western military posts. British agents instigated the Indians of the Northwest to make war on the frontier settlers, in order to secure for British commerce the monopoly of the fur-trade. This had been kept up ever since 1783, and the posts were held with a hope that the league of States would fall to pieces, and an opportunity would be afforded to bring back the new republic to colonial dependence. Sir John Johnson, former Indian agent, was again on the frontier, and Lord Dorc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harrison, William Henry 1773-1812 (search)
ries of military operations in the Northwest. The fall of Detroit and the massacre at Chicago caused the greatest excitementcollect the mounted men from Kentucky, to march on towards Detroit. At Piqua he received a letter from the War Department asovide for the defence of the frontiers, and then to retake Detroit, with a view to the conquest of Canada. He was invested wMaumee, or Miami, and, possibly, the capture of Malden and Detroit, making his base of military operations the foot of the ragulars and volunteers, and the intended expedition against Detroit was postponed. Harrison was much annoyed, but prosecuted habitants had fled with the army. The flotilla arrived at Detroit on the 29th, and the same day Colonel Johnson arrived withhames, and defeated in battle (see Thames, battle of the). Detroit and all Michigan were recovered. All that Hull had lost was regained. Col. Lewis Cass was left at Detroit, with a strong garrison, as military governor of the territory. Soon after
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hayne, Robert young -1839 (search)
ace party of New England (in the language of the work before us) pursuing a course calculated to do more injury to their country, and to render England more effective service than all her armies. Those who could not find it in their hearts to rejoice at our victories sang Te Deum at the King's Chapel in Boston for the restoration of the Bourbons. Those who could not consent to illuminate their dwellings for the capture of the Guerriere could give visible tokens of their joy at the fall of Detroit. The beacon fires of their hills were lighted up, not for the encouragement of their friends, but as signals to the enemy; and in the gloomy hours of midnight the very lights burned blue. Such were the dark and portentous signs of the times which ushered into being the renowned Hartford Convention. That convention met, and from their proceedings it appears that their chief object was to keep back the men and money of New England from the service of the Union, and to effect radical change
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hull, William 1753-1825 (search)
rmy of the Northwest, he was compelled to surrender Detroit and the Territory into the possession of the Britis., Nov. 29, 1825. When General Hull arrived near Detroit with his army, July 6, 1812, he encamped at Spring moved up the river unobserved to Bloody Run, above Detroit. The British, finding all silent at Spring Wells, as promulgated for the army to recross the river to Detroit!—an order to abandon Canada. This order was in cond his friends as the chief cause of the disaster at Detroit. The defendant might justly have objected to that e were: 1. Not attacking Malden, and retreating to Detroit. 2. Appearance of alarm during the cannonade. 3. rm on the day of the surrender. 4. Surrendering of Detroit. The specifications under the last charge were simace, one of his aides, he said, when they parted at Detroit: God bless you, my young friend! You return to youo me than life; but I have saved the inhabitants of Detroit, and my heart approves the act. To-day the charact
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hunt, Henry Jackson 1819-1889 (search)
Hunt, Henry Jackson 1819-1889 Military officer; born in Detroit, Mich., Sept. 14, 1819; graduated at West Point in 1839; served in the war with Mexico; and in May, 1861, was promoted to major of artillery. In September he became aide to General McClellan, with the rank of colonel, and in September, 1862, was made brigadiergeneral of volunteers. In the battle of Bull Run he commanded the artillery on the extreme left. He was chief of staff of the Army of the Potomac in the campaign on the Peninsula, and continued with that army as one of its most efficient and useful officers until the close of the war. He was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general in the regular army in 1865; commissioned colonel of the 5th Artillery in 1869; retired in 1883; and appointed governor of the Soldiers' Home in Washington, D. C., in 1883. He died in Washington, Feb. 11, 1889.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hunters' Lodges. (search)
, who was called the Pirate of the thousand Islands, and was outlawed by the governments of the United States and Great Britain. These secret organizations were called Hunters' Lodges. Among their members were many Canadian refugees, and William Lyon Mackenzie, the chief agitator in Upper Canada, who had been driven from the province, organized an executive committee in Buffalo, N. Y., for the purpose of directing the invasion of Canada. These Hunters' Lodges organized invading parties at Detroit, Sandusky, Oswego, and Watertown, in northern New York, and in Vermont. At one time, Van Rensselaer and Johnson had under them about 2,000 men, at an island a little below Kingston, Canada, It is said that the Hunters' Lodges within the American lines numbered, at one time, nearly 1,200, with a membership of 80,000. They were kept up after the insurrection was crushed and its leaders were hanged, imprisoned, or exiled. Hunters' Lodges were suppressed by order of President Tyler in 1842.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Illinois Indians, (search)
fires to a cabin. In 1679 they were badly defeated by the Iroquois, losing about 1,300, of whom 900 were prisoners: and they retaliated by assisting the French, under De la Barre and De Nonville, against the Five Nations. The Illinois were converted to Christianity by Father Marquette and other missionaries, and in 1700 Chicago, their great chief, visited France, where he was much caressed. His son, of the same name, maintained great influence in the tribe until his death, in 1754. When Detroit was besieged by the Foxes, in 1712, the Illinois went to its relief, and in the war that followed they suffered severely. Some of them were with the French at Fort Duquesne; but they refused to join Pontiac in his conspiracy. With the Miamis, they favored the English in the war of the Revolution, and joined in the treaty at Greenville in 1795. By the provision of treaties they ceded their lands, and a greater portion of them went to a country west of the Mississippi, within the present
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jefferson, Fort (search)
Jefferson, Fort A fortification built by Col. George Rogers Clark (q. v.), on the west side of the Mississippi. He had designed to extend his invasion to Detroit, but troops to reinforce him had been added to the force of another bold leader (see Shelby, Evan), and he had to abandon the undertaking. Jefferson, then governor of Virginia, gave instructions for the occupation of a station on the Mississippi River between the mouth of the Ohio and the parallel of 36° 30′; and in the spring of 1780 Clarke chose a strong position 5 miles below the mouth of the Ohio, whereon he built Fort Jefferson. Here the Americans planted their first sentinel to watch over the freedom of the navigation of the Father of wate
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jungman, John George 1720-1808 (search)
Jungman, John George 1720-1808 Clergyman; born in Hockheimer, Germany, April 19, 1720; became a lay evangelist to the Indians in 1742; ordained a deacon in the Moravian Church in 1770. Jungman was one of the earliest pioneers in the territory of the Ohio. In 1781 Jungman was taken prisoner by the Hurons and confined in the fort at Detroit. At the close of the war of the Revolution Jungman continued his missions among the Indians in Michigan, but, broken in health, he was obliged to give up his labors in 1785. He died in Bethlehem, Pa., July 17, 1808.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kenton, Simon -1836 (search)
Kenton, Simon -1836 Born in Fauquier county, Va., April 3, 1755. Supposing he had killed in an affray a rival in a love affair when he was sixteen years old, he fled to the wilderness west of the Alleghany Mountains, where he was the friend and companion of Daniel Boone in many daring feats. He was in expeditions against the Indians, was captured by them, and taken to Detroit. Escaping from a Brit- Simon Kenton. ish prison there in 1779, he distinguished himself in resisting the invasion of Kentucky by the British and Indians in that year. Finally, after an expedition against the Indians on the Miami, he settled (1784) near Maysville. He accompanied Wayne in his expedition in 1794. In 1805 he was seated near the Mud River, in Ohio, and was made brigadier-general of militia. In 1813 he served under Governor Shelby at the battle of the Thames. Beggared by lawsuits because of defective titles to lands, he lived in penury many years. In 1824 he appeared at Frankfort, Ky.,
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