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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Amelia Island, (search)
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)
ine with an ardent desire to make a voyage to the newly found continent, and he was gratified when, in 1499, he sailed from Spain with Alonzo de Ojeda as an adventurer and self-constituted geographer of the expedition. Ojeda followed the track of Columbus in his third voyage, and discovered mountains in South America when off the coast of Surinam. He ran up the coast to the mouth of the Orinoco River (where Columbus had discovered the continent the year before), passed along the coast of Venezuela, crossed the Caribbean Sea to Santo Domingo, kidnapped some natives of the Antilles. and returned to Spain in June, 1500, and sold his victims for slaves to Spanish grandees. In May, 1501, Vespucius, then in the service of the King of Portugal, sailed on his second voyage to America, exploring the coast of Brazil. In 1503 he commanded a caravel in a squadron destined for America, but parted company with the other vessels, and off the coast of Brazil discovered the Bay of All-Saints. He
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Andrade, Jose, (search)
National House of Representatives in 1884-88; and was appointed plenipotentiary to settle the claims of France against Venezuela in 1888. In 1889-90 he represented Venezuela in Washington, D. C., as a member of the Venezuelan and Marine CommissionVenezuela in Washington, D. C., as a member of the Venezuelan and Marine Commissions; was also a delegate to the International Maritime Conference, and to the Pan-American Congress; in 1893 served in the National Assembly which framed the new constitution of Venezuela and in the same year was appointed minister to the United StateVenezuela and in the same year was appointed minister to the United States. In 1895 he was a member of the United States and Venezuela Claims Commission in Washington. On Feb. 2, 1897, he signed the treaty of arbitration between Venezuela and England to arrange the boundary dispute: the same year was a delegate to the y of arbitration between Venezuela and England to arrange the boundary dispute: the same year was a delegate to the Universal Postal Congress in Washington; and in 1899 was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arbitration, international. (search)
the United States in favor of arbitration is the International Peace Society, originally formed in England. Its first great convention was held in London in 1851. The submission of the Venezuelan question to arbitration marked the eighteenth question that had thus been disposed of by the United States and the twenty-sixth that England had thus submitted. See Bering sea arbitration; arbitration, tribunal of, for Alabama claims ; Venezuela and Cleveland, Grover for Venezuela arbitration, etc. the United States in favor of arbitration is the International Peace Society, originally formed in England. Its first great convention was held in London in 1851. The submission of the Venezuelan question to arbitration marked the eighteenth question that had thus been disposed of by the United States and the twenty-sixth that England had thus submitted. See Bering sea arbitration; arbitration, tribunal of, for Alabama claims ; Venezuela and Cleveland, Grover for Venezuela arbitration, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Centennial Exhibition, (search)
was a generous response, and thirty-three nations, besides the United States, were represented—namely, Argentine Republic, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chili, China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain and Ireland, India and British colonies, Hawaiian Islands, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Liberia. Luxemburg Grand Duchy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Orange Free State, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Santo Domingo, Spain and Spanish colonies, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunis, Turkey, and Venezuela. A Woman's executive committee was formed, composed of Philadelphians, who raised money sufficient among the women of the Union for the erection of a building for the exhibition exclusively of women's work—sculpture, painting, engraving, lithography, literature, telegraphy, needlework of all kinds, etc.— at a cost of $30,000. The building was called the Women's pavilion. In it were exhibited beautiful needlework from England and etchings from the hand of Queen Victoria. The women of t<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cleveland, Grover 1837- (search)
y furnish the occasion for a future communication. The Venezuela boundary. On Dec. 17, 1895, President Cleveland sent tCongress concerning the dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela on the boundary question and its relation to the Monroe Dary controversy between Great Britain and the republic of Venezuela, and recited the substance of a representation made by thrsy involving the boundary-line between Great Britain and Venezuela. Without attempting extended argument in reply to thesosition has never thus far been regarded as admissible by Venezuela, though any adjustment of the boundary which that countryUnited States. Assuming, however, that the attitude of Venezuela will remain unchanged, the dispute has reached such a sta what is the true divisional line between the republic of Venezuela and British Guiana. The inquiry to that end should of coter investigation, we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela. In making these recommendations I am fully alive to t
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)
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Stockholm. Switzerland. John G. A. Leishman, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Berne. Turkey. Oscar S. Straus, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Constantinople. Venezuela. Francis B. Loomis, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Caracas. The following is a table of the chiefs of the foreign embassies and legations in the United States on Jan. 1, 1901: Argentine republic. Dr. Eduardo Wilin. Spain. Duke de Arcos, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Sweden and Norway. Mr. A. Grip, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Switzerland. Mr. J. B. Pioda, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Turkey. Ali Ferrouh Bey, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Uruguay. Señor Dr. Don Juan Cuestas, Minister Resident. Venezuela. Señor Don Augusto F. Pulido, Charge d'affaires ad interim. See consular servic
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)
them in Cuba. In 1564 he attempted to capture and enslave a whole town near Sierra Leone, and narrowly escaped being captured himself and sold into slavery. Hawkins was filled with the most pious reflections at his escape, and in his narrative (which is the first English narrative of American adventure printed) he says: God, who worketh all things for the best, would not have it so, and by Him we escaped without danger. His name be praised for it. His second cargo of slaves he sold in Venezuela and elsewhere. In this second voyage he coasted the peninsula of Florida, and gives a fairly detailed account of it in his narrative. He made a third voyage in 1568, and in spite of the King of Spain's prohibition, sold his cargoes of slaves to advantage. In the port of San Juan de Ulloa he met a Spanish fleet much stronger than his own. He made a solemn compact of mutual forbearance Defeat of Hawkins at San Juan De Ulloa. with the Spanish commander, which he treacherously broke, an
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