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Amelia Island,
An island at the mouth of the St. Mary River, near the boundary between Georgia and Florida.
In the summer of 1817 Gregor McGregor, styling himself Brigadier-general of the armies of New Granada and Venezuela, and general-in-chief employed to liberate the provinces of both the Floridas.
commissioned by the supreme councils of Mexico and South America, took possession of this island.
His followers were a band of adventurers which he had collected in Charleston and Savannah; and when he took possession he proclaimed a blockade of St. Augustine.
In the hands of these desperadoes the island was soon converted into a resort of buccaneering privateers under the Spanish-American flag, and a depot for smuggling slaves into the United States.
Another similar establishment had been set up on Galveston Island, off the coast of Texas, under a leader named Aury.
This establishment was more important than that on Amelia Island, as well on account of numbers as for the grea
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Americus Vespucius , 1451 -1512 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arbitration, international. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Centennial Exhibition , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cleveland , Grover 1837 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davis , Richard Harding , 1864 - (search)
Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-
Author; born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 18, 1864; son of Rebecca Harding Davis; educated at Lehigh University and Johns Hopkins University; became a newspaper reporter.
In 1888 he joined the staff of the New York Evening sun, to which he contributed some of his best short stories.
In 1890 he became the managing editor Of Harper's weekly.
He particularly distinguished himself as a chronicler of the Czar's coronation and Queen Victoria's jubilee, and as a reporting observer of the American-Spanish War. His publications include Soldiers of fortune; The Princess Aline; Our English cousins; Van Bibber and others; About Paris; The rulers of the Mediterranean; Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America; Cuba in War time; A year from a correspondent's note-book; Stories for boys; Cuban and Porto Rican campaigns, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Diplomatic service. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gilman , Daniel Coit 1831 - (search)
Gilman, Daniel Coit 1831-
Educator; born in Norwich, Conn., July 6, 1831; graduated at Yale University in 1852; and continued his studies in Berlin.
In 1856-72 he served as librarian, secretary of the Sheffield Scientific School, and Professor of Physical and Political Geography at Yale University; in 1872 became president of the University of California, where he remained until 1875, when he was chosen president of Johns Hopkins University, which had just been founded.
In 1893-99 he was president of the American Oriental Society; in 1896-97 a member of the United States commission on the boundary-line between Venezuela and British Guiana, and in 1897 a member of the commission to draft a new charter for the city of Baltimore.. In 1901 he resigned the presidency of the university.
He has written Life of James Monroe; University problems; Introduction to De Tocqueville's Democracy
Daniel Coit Gilman. in America; and many reports and papers.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hawkins , Sir John 1520 -1595 (search)