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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Northwestern Territory , the (search)
State of Ohio,
Was first explored by La Salle about 1680, his object being trade and not settlement.
Conflicting claims to territory in that region led to the French and Indian War (q. v.). The French held possession of the region north of the Ohio River until the conquest of Canada in 1760 and the surrender of vast territory by the French to the English in 1763.
After the Revolution disputes arose
Seal of the State of Ohio. between several States as to their respective rights to the soil in that region.
These were settled by the cession of the territory to the United States by the respective States, Virginia reserving 3,709,848 acres near the rapids of the Ohio, and Connecticut a tract of 3,666,921 acres near Lake Erie.
In 1800 jurisdiction over these tracts was relinquished to the national government, the States retaining the right to the soil, while the Indian titles to the rest of the State were bought up by the national government.
In the autumn of 1785 United Sta
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio land Company , the (search)
Ohio land Company, the
Soon after the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle an association of London merchants and Vir ginia land speculators, known as The Ohio land Company, obtained from the crown a grant of 500,000 acres of land on the east bank of the Ohio River, with the exclusive privilege of the Indian traffic International, or at least intercolonial, disputes immediately occurred.
The French claimed, by right of discovery, the whole region watered by the tributaries of the Mississippi River.
The English set up a claim, in the name of the Six Nations, as under British protection, and which was recognized by the treaties of Utrecht (1713) and Aix-la-Chapelle (1748), to the region which they had formerly conquered, and which included the whole eastern portion of the Mississippi Valley and the basin of the lower lakes, Erie and Ontario.
These conflict ing claims at once embarrassed the operations of the Ohio Land Company.
It was provided by their charter that they were to pay no quit-
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Robertson , James 1742 -1814 (search)
Romney, skirmish at
One of the most important of the earlier military operations of the Civil War, in its moral effect, was performed under the direction of Col. Lew. Wallace, with his regiment of Zouaves, the 11th Indiana, raised by himself, and presented with its colors by the women of Indiana.
It was sent to Evansville, in southern Indiana, on the Ohio River, to prevent supplies of any kind being sent to the South.
There, as a police force, it chafed with impatience for more active service, and on June 6, 1861, it was ordered to proceed to Cumberland, Md., and join General Patterson, then moving from Pennsylvania towards Harper's Ferry, where the Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was with a strong force.
Travelling by railway, the regiment reached Grafton, Va., very soon, and on the night of the 9th was near Cumberland.
At Romney, Va., only a day's march south from Cumberland, there was then a Confederate force, about 1,200 strong.
Wallace resolved to attack it at once.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sanders , John 1810 -1858 (search)
Sanders, John 1810-1858
Military engineer; born in Lexington, Ky., in 1810; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1834; became a captain in the engineer corps in 1838; was for several years engaged in improving the Ohio River and in the construction and repair of the interior defences of New York Harbor; served in the Mexican War, receiving the brevet of major for gallantry in the battle of Monterey; and later was engaged in improving the Delaware bay and river, and in constructing Fort Delaware.
He published Memoirs on the resources of the Valley of the Ohio, etc. He died in Fort Delaware, Del., July 29, 1858.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trimble , Isaac Ridgeway 1802 - (search)
Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway 1802-
Military officer; born in Culpeper county, Va., May 15, 1802; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1822, and was assigned the duty of surveying the military road from Washington to the Ohio River; resigned in 1832 and became a civil engineer; was with various railroads as chief engineer till the outbreak of the Civil War, when he took command of the nonuniformed volunteers recruited to defend Baltimore from Northern soldiers.
In the same year he was made colonel of engineers in Virginia and directed the construction of the field works and forts at Norfolk; was promoted brigadier-general on finishing that work, and then took charge of the location and construction of the batteries at Evansport on the Potomac River.
With these batteries he blockaded the river against United States vessels during the winter of 1861-62.
He also participated and won distinction in various battles, including Gaines's Mills, Slaughter's Mountain, Second Bul